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Camille Turner: Hometown Queen
Hardcover
American Art - African American & BlackCanadian ArtIndividual Artists
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ISBN13: 9781773105093
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 192
Language: English
Blackness has been systematically ' disappeared' from the Canadian nation. . . . I explore various mechanisms through which this disappearance has been achieved, ranging from historical omissions to social exclusion as well as literally burying evidence of Canada's Black past. -- Camille Turner
Camille Turner: Hometown Queen offers the first in-depth retrospective of Turner's nearly 30-year career. Born in Jamaica and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Turner has developed a formidable body of work in performance, installation, photography, video, and sculpture. Her practice powerfully addresses racial and social politics, offering a critical analysis of the enduring systems of injustice, confronting histories marked by erasure, deliberate burying, and systemic silencing while actively forging a hopeful path forward. Turner's art creates spaces of contemplation and imaginative possibility, inviting reflection on what might emerge -- for herself, for her father and family, and for generations still to come.
This handsome volume contains over 70 images of Turner's work and essays by artists, curators, and scholars. The works featured range from foundational works such as the eponymous Hometown Queen and Miss Canadiana to recent large-scale video installations, including Worthy, a new immersive multi-media installation that explores her father's childhood experience of growing up on the grounds of one of Jamaica's most profitable businesses, formerly a slave plantation.
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 Provost's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto and completed a PhD at York University with a research-creation project closely connected to her artistic practice. In 2025, Turner was featured in the Sã o Paulo Biennial and was Artist-in-Residence at the Fine Arts Center of University of Massachusetts Amherst in partnership with Slavery North.
Turner has held solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and is the recipient of the 2025 Exhibition of the Year award for Otherworld (Art Museum at the University of Toronto) from Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) and the 2022 Artist Prize from the Toronto Biennial of Art. Her work is held in major 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, and The Rooms. She is represented in Canada by Central Art Garage.
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