Miya Turnbull

Miya Turnbull is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist and mask maker who also works in painting, photography, screen printing, textiles, video, animation, and projection. Originally from Alberta, she graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000 and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2002.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada. In 2019, she displayed over 60 masks at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Gallery in Toronto, Ontario. In 2020, she had a video screened at Photophobia, a film festival of short-format contemporary media presented through the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Hamilton Artists Inc. She exhibited in a group show about identity at The Craig Gallery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and held a solo exhibition at the Corridor Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.