Miya Turnbull (she/her) is a 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 works predominantly with self-portraits as a way to explore and examine identity, persona and self-image. She is of settler, mixed Japanese-Canadian ancestry and graduated from the University of Lethbridge with a BFA in 2000. After living briefly in Montreal, she moved to Halifax (K'jipuktuk) 20 years ago.

Miya has presented her masks, photo and video work across Canada and internationally. In 2019, she exhibited at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Gallery (Toronto) after a 10 year hiatus away from her practise. She was part of Photophobia Film Festival (Hamilton), as well as exhibits at the Craig Gallery (Dartmouth) and the Corridor Gallery (Halifax) in 2020.

So far in 2021, she has exhibited with Acadia University Art Gallery (NS), the Barrett Art Center (NY), the House of Smalls (UK), M.A.D.S Art Gallery (Italy), The Ice House Gallery (NS), Gallery 101 (Ottawa) and TRAHC Regional Arts Center (TX). Her masks were presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival (UK) by Social Anthropologist Nataliya Tchermalykh (University of Geneva). She was the featured and cover artist in Art Reveal, an online magazine based out of Germany. She gratefully acknowledges the support from Arts Nova Scotia which has allowed her artwork to flourish.