Hyper Woodland is the term I coined for work that extends the Woodland School with ancestral knowledge, augmented reality, interactive projection and 3D sculpture. Quinn Hopkins: Hyper Woodland is my first solo museum exhibition, at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery from May 29 to October 4, 2026.

The show gathers five years of AR and digital sculpture with new work made for the territory. A new Thunder Bay chapter of Sacred Tags animates the city's walls. Stellar Narratives, 13 Moon Calendar, Ziibi and Aurora Indigenus stand as XR-activated prints. Woodland Be[AR] returns as a wheatpaste. Copper Shaman Portal, Shaman Between Two Worlds, Uncle with KFC and Bakwene Makwa run on screens and projection. Visitors move through a porous terrain that shifts between urban streetscapes and a Great Lakes imaginary, phones in hand.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery holds Bakwene Makwa in its collection and showed my work in Woodland POP! in 2022. Hyper Woodland returns to that relationship four years on.