Camille Turner
Camille Turner
Camille Turner
Pods for Dreaming, 2024
Installation (multi-channel sound and various materials, video, ambient lighting).
Variable dimensions
Commissioned by Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid
Pods for Dreaming, 2024
Installation (multi-channel sound and various materials, video, ambient lighting).
Variable dimensions
Commissioned by Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid


Camille Turner (Kingston, 1960. Lives in Los Angeles) is an artist and researcher whose practice combines Afrofuturism and historical inquiry. Her recent work explores the involvement of present-day Canada in the transatlantic slave trade, reimagining colonial archives from the perspective of a liberated Black future. She developed the concept of Afronautic methodology and holds a PhD from York University, with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. In 2022, she received the Toronto Biennial Artist Prize. Her work is held in public and private collections in Canada and internationally.
This participation is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.