Miya Turnbull is a multi-disciplinary visual artist of mixed Japanese Canadian ancestry. She holds a BFA from the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) and has been based on the east coast of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for over 20 years. She works with many different mediums, but is primarily a mask artist, and new to her practice is performance. She focuses on Self-Portraits, using her Photo-Mask technique to make life-like variations and representations of her face, often distorting and manipulating her image as a way to explore identity.
Miya has exhibited her masks, photos, and video in galleries in Canada as well as the US, Europe and Asia. Her artwork has been on the cover of several magazines: Visual Arts News (Atlantic Canada), Art Reveal (Germany), and Masks Literary Magazine (Columbia College Chicago Library) and the Bulletin/Geppo (Vancouver), as well as featured on digital platforms such as Vogue (Thailand), Planted Journal (Italy), Oficina Palimpsestus (Brazil), The Perfect Magazine (UK), Based Istanbul (Turkey) and Foxylab New York Magazine (US). She was honoured to be long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2025.
