Antoinette Karuna is a visual artist residing in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Toronto Intl Film Festival, Vancouver Intl Film Festival, Bucheon Intl Fantastic Film Festival, the Khyber Centre for the Arts, and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Her projects have received funding from the National Film Board of Canada, Arts Nova Scotia, and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others.

Karuna holds a BA in Communication Studies with a minor in Creative Writing from Concordia University, Montreal. She is currently an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador. There she is undertaking a creative inquiry into the complexities of mixed-race identity with the assistance of a Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Karuna is Sri Lankan Tamil through her father and French Canadian through her mother. She spent her childhood in London, England, then later a decade each in Montreal and Berlin. She teaches Filmmaking in the Art Department at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.