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Aaron Turner is an artist, educator, and curator born and raised in the Arkansas Delta. He uses photography as a transformative process to understand ideas of home, resilience, and identity through material abstraction. His recent publication, The Archive Liberation (Light Work, 2025), brings together a dynamic group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue about archival photographic methods. He has authored several works including Black Alchemy: Thing True (TIS, 2020), Time Left (VSW, 2022), and Moves Form Archive (Sleeper Studio, 2023). In 2022, he founded the Center for Art and Lived Experience and has organized exhibitions and symposiums such as Let Remain: Women of the African Diaspora (Phoenix Art Museum, 2022) and Time & Empathy: Arkansas Photographer Geleve Grice (University of Arkansas, 2021–22). He received an M.A. from Ohio University and an M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His accolades include the 2018 Light Work Artists-in-Residence award, the 2019 EnFoco Photography Fellowship, and the 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.
University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design • Ann Arbor, MI
Teaching courses related to Visual Arts and Photography.