Camille Turner wins the Artist Prize at the Toronto Biennial of Art, recognizing an artist’s outstanding contribution to the Biennial.

Central Art Garage to participate in Art Toronto 2021 with artists Barry Ace, Joi, T Arcand, Michael Belmore, D’Andrea Bowie, Camal and Camille, Maura Doyle, Adrian Göllner, Craig Leonard, Bozica Radjenovic, and Frank Shebageget.

As part of the Fellowship, Turner will utilize her Afronautic methodology to investigate slave ships built in Newfoundland, research that exists where history meets the intimately personal.

Camille Turner - Awakening at Nuit Blanche. Turner works in all different kinds of media and performance art. Her latest venture is a narrative short about a time traveller going back to stop the Transatlantic slave trade. Turner is exploring Canadian and diasporic identity and contextualizing the Canadian involvement in the slave trade.

The exhibition traced relationships between cultural memory and archival silence through works by Canadian artists Sandra Brewster, Shelley Miller and Camille Turner.

Turner drew attention to 19 slave ships built on the east coast of Newfoundland between 1751 to 1792.

Border Crossings report on AGNS exhibition “Sense of Site”. Artists took different approaches to presenting versions of their “Landmarks 2017/Repères 2017” site-specific projects. The original project was set in national parks and historical sites across Canada, featuring work by Michael Belmore, Ursula Johnson, Camille Turner and other artists.

The biennale theme, The Life of Things, references consumption, overconsumption, material culture, and the still life in an age of environmental crisis, among other concepts.

New Publication: ARCHI-FÉMINISTES! Art contemporain, théories féministes / Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories

The Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Awards have been announced for 2018. Camille Turner is a Finalist for the Artist Prize.

The continued work of Black women curators in Canada shapes a distinct conversation responsive to settler-colonial histories and the unique experiences of the Black diaspora.

Wanted takes newspaper ads placed by Canadian slave owners claiming their runaway slaves and recreates them as beguiling, defiant photographs.

Hamilton Spectator review of the AGO’s Every: Now: Then: Reframing Nationhood.

Michael Belmore, an Anishinaabe artist, offers Rumble, a blackened copper sandwich of Trans-Am hoods, with effigies of spiritually significant creatures - a Thunderbird on one side, water panthers on the other - glowing from within.

Nearby looms Bell part of a slickly stylized photo-portrait project by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, which was drawn from a shocking source: 19th-century Canadian classified ads placed by owners in search of their runaway slaves.

Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Artists Michael Belmore, Robert Houle and Camille Turner are featured.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Camille Turner’s individual practices are each concerned with walking, touring, questioning archives and uncovering alternative histories, particularly in regards to black and Cree worldviews. For LandMarks2017 the artists will host tour through National Parks “for more stories to be heard, and more voices to be reflected.”

“I often feel like what I am doing is science fiction,” says Turner “because these things haunt the present, and sci-fi is a great language for connecting with the ghosts.”

Turner’s fictional beauty-contest winner, Miss Canadiana, appears on plates and mugs commemorating her “homecoming” tour through Hamilton, Ontario.

Camille Turner, creator of The Resistance of Peggy Pompadour—a sonic walking tour tells the story of an enslaved woman from the town of York.