Miya Turnbull
Miya Turnbull is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist. Primarily a mask maker, she also works in many mediums such as painting, photography, screen printing, textiles, video, animation and projection. She holds a BFA from the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) and currently lives in Halifax (Nova Scotia). Miya has presented her masks, photo and video work across Canada and internationally. In 2019, she exhibited over 60 masks at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Gallery in Toronto and in 2020, was part of the Photophobia Film Festival, presented by the Hamilton Art Gallery and Hamilton Arts Inc. In 2021, she has shown work at Acadia University Art Gallery (NS), Barrett Art Centre (Poughkeepsie, NY), M.A.D.S. Art Gallery (Milan, Italy) and has an upcoming exhibit at Gallery 101 in Ottawa. Recently her masks were presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival in Bristol, UK by Nataliya Tchermalykh, a Social Anthropologist from the University of Geneva. She gratefully acknowledges the support from Arts Nova Scotia which has allowed her artwork to flourish.
