Candice Hopkins (cancelled)

Function: Curator and writer Country: Canada Visiting period: 13 - 17 April Visiting year: 2020

Candice Hopkins

[This visit in organised in collaboration with the Rijksakademie and De Appel in Amsterdam. The visit has been cancelled.]

Candice Hopkins, originally from Whitehorse, Yukon, is senior curator of the 2019 and 2021 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art and co-curator of the Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the videos of the Igloolik-based media collective, Isuma. Hopkins was also co-curator of the SITE Santa Fe biennial Casa Tomada (New Mexico), documenta 14 in Athens (Greece) and Kassel (Germany) and the major exhibitions Sakahàn: International Indigenous ArtClose Encounters: The Next 500 Years.

Her writing is published widely and her recent essays and presentations include The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier for the Documenta 14 Reader, Outlawed Social Life for South as a State of Mind and Sounding the Margins: A Choir of Minor Voices at Small Projects (Tromsø, Norway).

Candice Hopkins has lectured internationally including at Yale University, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Tate Modern, The Dakar Biennale, Artists Space, Tate Britain and the University of British Columbia. She received numerous awards including the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art and the 2016 the Prix pour un essai critique sur l’art contemporain by the Foundation Prince Pierre de Monaco. Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation. Read more about her work practice here.