Category: Talks & Tours
Admission: Registration Preferred
Join us in welcoming artist Camille Turner back home for a deep dive into her exhibit Hometown Queen . Hear insights on how an intentional investigation in to self, place and Black history gave way to an ongoing discovery and reckoning with painful histories and obscured archives. During the talk, led by senior curator Melissa Bennett and educator-in-residence stylo starr, Camille will reflect on her 30-year retrospective and share stories about the works, ideas, collaborations, and journeys that have shaped her practice.
About the Artist:
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 São 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.
Thursday, November 12
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Art Gallery of Hamilton · 123 King Street West
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