Protected
2022
Sky Hopinka
Artist, Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, born 1984
Artwork overview
-
Medium
inkjet print with hand-etched text
-
Credit Line
Gift of Funds from Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV and Avalon Fund
-
Dimensions
image: 101.6 × 101.6 cm (40 × 40 in.)
framed: 105.41 × 105.41 × 4.76 cm (41 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 1 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2023.130.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sky Hopinka; (Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin); NGA purchase, 2024.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
inscribed by artist into print surface: Adopted by Blue Sky and she changed her name and her voice and gave birth to my jáaji and said farewell for far too long. I only knew them in their distance, a mutual hate and a mutual love, brought about by a great violence. I feel sorry for fatherchild.