SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
2PM
ARMORY LIVE THEATER
Featuring artists Yhonnie Scarce, Stephanie Syjuco and Dyani White Hawk—moderated by Candice Hopkins, Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project.
The 2023 Focus section considers emergent and established artists whose work is decidedly outside of the mainstream. The panel will discuss uncovering little-known narratives through artmaking, asking the possibilities of manifesting histories through material.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
STEPHANIE SYJUCO
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has exhibited widely, including at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Oakland, California.
Photo by Kija Lucas
DYANI WHITE HAWK
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. White Hawk was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and recent solo exhibitions, Speaking to Relatives, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. She has received awards from Anonymous Was a Woman, Academy of Arts and Letters, United States Artists, Joan Mitchell Foundation and McKnight Foundation. Her work is among collections such as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Denver Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle
YHONNIE SCARCE
Yhonnie Scarce was born in Woomera, South Australia, and belongs to the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples. Scarce’s interdisciplinary practice explores the political nature and aesthetic qualities of glass and photography. Family history is central to Scarce’s work, drawing on the strength of her ancestors, she offers herself as a conduit, sharing their significant stories from the past.
Scarce’s professional profile has risen exponentially and in 2022 her work titled The Near Breeder was exhibited at Ikon Gallery Birmingham. Simultaneously, Shadow Creeper, another major installation, was shown at Palais De Tokyo, Paris, and was acquired by the Foundation Opale, dedicated to contemporary art, notably Australian Indigenous art, in Lens, Switzerland. Also in 2022, Scarce’s work Orford Ness was featured in the Aichi Triennale, Japan, and she finished an outstanding year exhibiting Missile Park at Gropius Bau, Berlin. This major commission from her exhibition at ACCA and IMA showcases works spanning the past fifteen years of her career.
CANDICE HOPKINS
Candice Hopkins, a Carcross/Tagish First Nation citizen, is Director and Chief Curator of Taghkanic, New York’s Forge Project, a Native-led initiative launched in 2021 and focusing on Indigenous art, decolonial education, and supporting leaders in culture, food security, and land justice. Her writing and curatorial practice explores the intersections of history, contemporary art and indigeneity. Hopkins was Senior Curator of both the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, in 2019, and its second iteration, in 2022. She served as a member of the curatorial teams organizing, respectively, the Canadian Pavilion at the Fifty-Eighth Venice Biennale, in 2019, and documenta 14, in 2017. She has co-curated a number of pathbreaking group exhibitions centered on Indigenous artists, including, forIndependent Curators International, Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, which has traveled to seven venues since opening in 2019; Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, at Crystal Bridges Museum for American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas (2018); Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario (2013); and the multi-venue “Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years” in Winnipeg (2009). Hopkins' essays 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 The Appropriation Debates (or The Gallows of History), for MIT Press. She received the 2022 Leo Award from Independent Curators International for her curatorial practice, and the 2021 Noah Davis Prize from the Underground Museum.
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