Camille Turner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Camille Turner
Occupation	Performance Artist
Date Of Birth	Mar 11, 1960(1960-03-11)
Age	64
Birthplace	Kingston
Country	Jamaica
Horoscope	Pisces

Camille Turner Biography

Camille Turner is one of the most popular and richest Performance Artist who was born on March 11, 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica. Camille Turner (born 11 March 1960) is a Canadian media and performance artist, curator, and educator. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, particularly concerning the subject of Canadian Identity.

Frequently employing new media art and mobile technologies in her interactive performance projects, several of Turner’s projects imagine black futures through afrofuturistic narratives. A series of performances—The Final Frontier (2010), TimeWarp (2013), and The Afronautic Research Lab (2016)—proposes the return of a group of space travelers, the Afronauts, descendants of the Dogon people of West Africa who have come home after 10,000 years to save the planet. Using the detailed iconography of [science fiction|Science fiction], Turner investigates the mythic Canadian landscape. Not letting Canadians sit comfortably with the self-satisfied narrative that their country was often at the end of the Underground Railroad, The Afronauts most recently confronted the country’s amnesia around its own histories of slavery by inviting visitors to pore over ads posted in 18th-century newspapers by Canadian slave owners. Through these performances, Turner builds on stories of the Dogon’s extensive astronomical knowledge dating back to 3200 BC – in regards to this research and creation, Turner has said “You know, to cavort with the ghosts is what I think about, because these things haunt the present, and sci-fi is a great language for connecting with the ghosts.”

Camille Turner Net Worth

Camille Turner is one of the richest Performance Artist from Jamaica. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Camille Turner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Turner’s work investigates diasporic identity and intercultural exchange through interventions, installations, performances, media works, and public engagements, and her most recent work investigates hidden or erased histories through place-based exploration. She is best known for her glamorous alter-ego Miss Canadiana, a hometown beauty queen on an ambassadorial Red, White, and Beautiful Tour, who has been calling out contradictions since 2002 of the Canadian mythology of multiculturalism across the globe.

Turner was Artist-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2012–2014. In 2013-14, she held a residency through the Neighbourhood Spaces Program of the Broken City Lab artist-run centre in Windsor, Ontario. In the summer of 2015, her interactive project “Big Up Barton” focused on a neglected neighbourhood in Hamilton, Ontario. Mounted in a neglected store front on Barton Street, the work presented recorded audio narratives of local residents’ memories and invited visitors to share written responses. Turner’s project Wanted, a collaboration with Camal Pirbhai, took the form of contemporary photo portraits paired with notices of runaway slaves from eighteenth-century Canada. During the summer of 2017, elements of the work were installed as billboards in prominent locations in Toronto.

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Camille Ranked on the list of most popular Performance Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Jamaica. Camille Turner celebrates birthday on March 11 of every year.

Is Camille Turner still alive?

Camille Turner ( born 11 March 1960 ) is a Canadian media and performance artist, curator, and educator.

Why is Camille Turner important?

Camille Turner is perhaps best known for her Miss Canadiana performances , which have been ongoing since Canada Day, 2002. As her alter-ego, Turner performs at public events in order to question white beauty standards, and to reassert the presence of Blackness within the story of what it means to be Canadian.

Where is Camille Turner from?

Kingston, Jamaica

Where does Camille Turner live now?

Camille is currently artist-in residence at Central Neighbourhood House , a social agency in downtown east Toronto. Miss Canadiana is one of her most recent works.

When was Camille Turner born?

March 11, 1960 (age 62 years)