Candice Hopkins is a Carcross/Tagish First Nation independent curator, writer, and researcher, focusing on Indigenous art. She is the executive director and chief curator at the Forge Project in New York. Her early career included roles as a contract archivist and cultural programmer, and she participated in an internship in Fiji, which shifted her focus to curatorial practice. Hopkins has held various curatorial positions, including at The Banff Centre and the National Gallery of Canada. She co-curated the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial and the 2019 and 2021 Toronto Biennial of Art. She was also part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and documenta 14. Hopkins has been widely published and lectured internationally, receiving the 2015 Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.