Camille Turner is an artist/scholar whose interdisciplinary practice combines Afrofuturism, speculative storytelling, and historical research. Her work explores Black diasporic memory, futurity, and the afterlives of enslavement. Through immersive and research-driven projects, she creates transformative spaces that invite audiences to imagine liberated futures shaped by collective memory, imagination, and resistance. 

Born in Jamaica, Turner lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 2025 São Paulo Biennial, and most recently at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she presented Land of the Free. Turner’s projects often engage archives, walking practices, performance personas, and participatory experiences to uncover hidden histories while envisioning new possibilities for Black life and belonging. Her first retrospective exhibition, Hometown Queen will open in June 2026 at Art Gallery of Hamilton. 

Turner is the recipient of the 2022 Artist Prize from the Toronto Biennial of Art. Her exhibition, Otherworld received a 2025 Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries Award. She recently completed a PhD at York University, and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University of Toronto. At UMass Amherst she was artist in residence at University Museum of Contemporary Art and a fellow at Slavery North.