Candice Hopkins

Candice Hopkins, a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon, Canada, is an independent curator and writer now based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a curator for documenta 14, which will open in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany in 2017. Her writings on history, Indigenous art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, The Fillip Review, Canadian Art Magazine and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others. Her recent essays and presentations include “Outlawed Social Life” for the documenta 14 edited issue of South as a State of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway. She has lectured widely including at the Witte de With, Tate Modern, Dak’Art Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British Columbia. In 2012, Hopkins was invited to present a keynote lecture on the topic of the “sovereign imagination” for dOCUMENTA(13) together with curator Hetti Perkins.

Hopkins’ collaborative curatorial projects include the exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, the National Gallery of Canada’s largest survey of recent Indigenous art, co-curated with Greg Hill and Christine Lalonde and Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a multi-venue exhibition in Winnipeg, Canada on Indigenous futurism co-curated with Steven Loft, Lee-Ann Martin and Jenny Western. While the Director and Curator of the Exhibitions Programme at Western Front she organized the exhibitions Before the Internet: Networks and Art (with Peter Courtmanche); The F Word (on feminism) with Alissa Firth-Eagland; Kits for an Encounter (with Marisa Jahn); Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk (with Robert Blackson) and the first solo exhibition of Paul Chan in Canada.

20-22 The Ongoing Biennial Video Recording: Candice Hopkins In Conversation with Pedro Lasch and Shambhavi Kaul

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