Bianca Turner is a ceramic artist currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Missouri. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Hartford and previously completed a long-term residency at the Worcester Center for Crafts. Influenced by her Jamaican heritage and contemporary Black cultural memory, Turner explores the relationship between the body, emotion, and identity through abstract ceramic forms. Using hand-building techniques, she creates textured, organic sculptures that navigate vulnerability, transformation, softness, and resilience. Her work engages color and surface as emotional and psychological languages, inviting reflection through material, atmosphere, and spatial experience. Turner’s work has been exhibited at venues including the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Guilford Art Center, and William Woods University. Turner is a recipient of the NCECA Multicultural Fellowship and the Artaxis Fellowship.