Aaron Turner is a photographer and educator currently based in Arkansas. He uses photography as a transformative process to understand the ideas of home and resilience in two main areas of the U.S., the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas. Aaron also uses the 4x5 view camera to create still-life studies on identity, history, blackness as material, and abstraction. Aaron received his M.A. from Ohio University and an M.F.A from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He was a 2018 Light Work Artists-in-Residence at Syracuse University, 2019 EnFoco Photography Fellow, a 2020 Visual Studies Workshop Project Space Artists-in-Residence, a 2020 Artist 360 Mid-America Arts Alliance Grant Recipient, the 2021 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Recipient, a 2021 Creators Lab Photo Fund recipient from Google’s Creator Labs & the Aperture Foundation, and 2022 Darryl Chappell Foundation photographer-in-residence at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Teaching Assistant Professor of Art
University of Arkansas, School of Art
Director, Center for Art as Lived Experience
Research Interest: Photography as a Transformative Process to understand place, identity, abstraction and aggregation. Photographers of Color.
Prints, books and portfolios available upon request.
Photo: Gus Aronson
A New Nothing Conversation with Sonja Thomsen
PhotoLucida" Critical Mass Top 50, 2020
2020 Project Space Residency | Visual Studies Workshop - Rochester, NY
Juror - 2020 Light Work Grants
Adolf Fassbender Travel Award from the Center for Creative Photography (CCP)
En Foco Photography Fellowship 2019
Flash Forward 2018 TOP 100 - Magenta Foundation
Founder/Curator of Photographers of Color
A New Nothing with Emile Askey
GISH Collective (Gravity is Stronger Here)
Contributor to Strange Fire Collective:
Q&A Aaron Turner w/ Zora J Murf - August 2017
Q&A: Samin Ahmadzadeh - January 2018
Contact
aturn1990@gmail.com
Based in Arkansas