Camille Turner is an artist and scholar whose practice spans a variety of media including social practice, performance, video, photography, installation, and sculpture. Grounded in Afrofuturism and historical research, she reimagines colonial archives and confronts the entanglement of what is now Canada in the transatlantic trade of Africans, envisioning liberated futures shaped by Black knowledge, memory, and imagination.

Born in Jamaica in 1960, Turner was raised in Hamilton and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She was the first Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty and completed a PhD at York University with a research-creation project closely connected to her artistic practice. Camille Turner: Hometown Queen opened at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2026 offering the first in-depth retrospective of her nearly 30-year career. 

Turner has held solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.  She was featured in the 36th São Paulo Biennial and received the 2025 Exhibition of the Year award for Otherworld (Art Museum at the University of Toronto) from Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG). In 2022 she won the Artist Prize at the Toronto Biennial of Art. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Canada Council Art Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Museum London, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Wedge Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Rooms. She is represented by Central Art Garage.