The Barnes Foundation is presenting Sky Hopinka: Red Metal Dust, a new installation of meditative photographic landscapes by multidisciplinary Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseo Indians). Red Metal Dust is sponsored by Comcast NBCUniversal. On view through Jan. 18, 2027, in the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Court, Red Metal Dust is a site-specific installation of 11 panels presented in the courts wall niches. Referencing the Ho-Chunk tribes name for copper, this installation thoughtfully interrogates American histories and Indigenous homelands through the layering of photography and copper sheets. This is only the second occasion an artist has been commissioned to create such an installation for the Annenberg Court, following Pat Steirs Silent Secret Waterfalls: The Barnes Series in 2019. Red Metal Dust is free and open to the public. The Barness 2026 slate of exhibitions and installations are part of Philadelphias yearlong commemoration of the United Statess 250th anniversary. It promises to be a banner year of citywide programming that honors Philadelphias role as the birthplace of American democracy, said Thom Collins, Neubauer Family executive director and president of the Barnes. Our curatorial team has devised thoughtful exhibitions and installations highlighting American artists of diverse and varied perspectives, and we are honored to kick the year off with Sky Hopinkas Red Metal Dust, a stunning series of photographic landscapes that inspire deep contemplation about Indigenous homelands, a topic that is particularly poignant as the nation celebrates this milestone anniversary. Red Metal Dust is a body of work that considers landscape as a site of emanation, shaped as much by what remains as by what has been removed, stated Hopinka. The title draws from the Ho-Chunk way of describing copper, naming the material not as monument but as remainder, something carried, scattered, and endured. In this context, copper becomes less a surface than a witness, resilient and reflective, shaped through contact rather than display. Across the works, landscape is approached as a layered field of return, where images accumulate, echo, and settle into one another over time. Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseo Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale, Wash. He studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video, photo, and text work centers on personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape and designs of language as containers of culture. Hopinkas work has screened at the Sundance Film Fest, Toronto International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Courtisane Festival, Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival, and New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2018 FRONT Triennial, and the 2021 Prospect.5 Triennial. In 2019, he was a guest curator at the Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in 2020 and at LUMA in Arles, France, in 2022. He was a 2018-19 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, a 2018 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow, a 2019 Art Matters Fellow, a 2020 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography and was a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. For more information about this historic milestone year visit, www.philly2026.com.