About

Tyra Maria Trono is a Filipina artist, cultural worker, educator, and independent curator based between Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada, and Manila, Philippines. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, Photography at Concordia University. She is the recipient of the Lande Award in Photography (2023), the Roloff Beny Fellowship in Photography (2023), and the Mitacs Globalink Research Award (2025 & 2026). In 2025, she was shortlisted for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism (English Category) at the Ateneo Art Gallery in the Philippines. In 2026, she presented her first solo exhibition, If You Know, You Know, at VU Broadcast and Production Centre in Quebec City, Canada.

Her artistic practice explores embodied experiences and personal narratives through culturally significant artifacts situated within specific geographic contexts. Through photography, installation, video, archival research, and oral histories, she examines how cultural identity is formed, how diasporic belonging reshapes memory, and how storytelling continues to shape relationships across generations.

Trono is currently the Programming Coordinator at Ada X, a bilingual feminist artist-run centre dedicated to the exploration, creation, and critical reflection of media arts and digital culture. She has also worked as a cultural worker with local arts organizations including the Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, POP Montreal, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, La Maison de la culture, VAV Gallery, and Photo St-Denis. In 2024, she was selected to participate in the Curatorial Conversations program at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) and the Creative Industries Management program at De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde in Manila, Philippines.

CV available upon request.


︎  tyramariatrono@gmail.com