Sky Hopinka (born 1984)[1] is an American visual artist and filmmaker who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño people.

[5] Hopinka's undergraduate education was at Portland State University (PSU), where he became interested in documentary film.

[5] In 2013 he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the homeland of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in film, video, and new genres.

[2][6] Hopinka's work deals with personal interpretations of homeland and landscape; the correlation between language and culture in relation to home and land.

[17] Hopinka is former associate professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where he taught film, video and animation.