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Posted On: October 14th 2026, 10:34 pm
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CCS Photo is excited to welcome Aaron Turner (@aturn_arkdelta) to campus as the first lecturer in this year’s Visiting Artist Series! Join us on Tuesday, October 27, 11:30am-12:30pm in W107. All CCS community members welcome, free lunch!
Aaron Turner is an artist, educator, and independent curator based in southeast Michigan. His work centers around photography, archives, geometric abstraction, improvisation, and aesthetic elements of music. In May of 2025, he released his most recent book, The Archive as Liberation, which brings together a dynamic group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. He most recently joined the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design as an assistant professor.
He holds an MA from Ohio University and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum Of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, George Eastman Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Light Work, Penumbra Foundation, SF Cameraworks, Photo Access Australia, Filter Photo, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
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Aaron Turner is an artist, educator, and independent curator based in southeast Michigan. His work centers around photography, archives, geometric abstraction, improvisation, and aesthetic elements of music. In May of 2025, he released his most recent book, The Archive as Liberation, which brings together a dynamic group of artists and writers to engage in dialogue around archival photographic methods. He most recently joined the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design as an assistant professor.
He holds an MA from Ohio University and an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum Of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, George Eastman Museum, Houston Center for Photography, Light Work, Penumbra Foundation, SF Cameraworks, Photo Access Australia, Filter Photo, and Center for Photography at Woodstock.
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