Collections

• The Library of Congress

• The Philadelphia Museum of Art

• The Museum Of Fine Arts Houston

• Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts

• The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Michener Art Museum, Delaware Valley

• Los Angeles Museum of Social Justice

• The University of Oklahoma

• The West Collection

• University of Pennsylvania Law School

• Blank Rome Law

• Private Collections – United States and Mexico

  Selected Awards

  2024

• Photography Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

  2022

• The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship

• Eddie Adams

• 1st Place, Southern California Journalism Awards, Photo Essay (Single Topic) News Feature (The Ones Who Stay)

  2021

• Leeway Transformation Award

• Leeway Art and Change Award

  2020

• Gold Winner — Editorial — Political, Tokyo International Foto Awards 

• Curator Sélection, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 

• Winner — Female in Focus Vogue Italy

• First Place — Photo Annual Awards, Photojournalism 

• Selected, Fotografas Latam

• Finalist, Hellerau Photography Award 

• Top 10 Feature Selection, Critical Mass

• Series Winner — British Journal of Photography’s Female in Focus

• Winner, Marty Forscher Fellowship

• First Place — Focus Photo LA

• Portfolio Review Award, The Guardian Feature — FORMAT20

• IPA — Editorial Press/Feature Story — La Caravana Del Diablo

• Winner — PRIX De la PHOTOGRAPHIE De PARIS

• First Place — For The Artist Equity 71st Annual Spring Exhibition.

• Me & Eve Award, The Center of Photographic Arts 

  2019

• First Place — Tokyo International Foto Awards, Gold in Editorial/Political 2019 Award 

• Editors Pick Award, Smithsonian Magazine Photo of the Day (Photo 06.20.19)

• Top 50 — Critical Mass, Photo Lucida

• Artist in Residence, Fleisher Art Memorial 

• Artist in Residence, Leeway Foundation

• Second Place Silver — Star Award, Editorial: Documentary ND Awards

• Director’s Award, Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins,Co 

• First-Prize, Lens on Latin America Exhibition 'Estrellas.' Philadelphia PA

• Juror’s Award, Center for Fine Art Photography Fort Collins,Co

• Fellowship, Center for Emerging Visual Artist 

• Third Place, Fine Art Photography Awards: Photojournalism

  2018

• Art for Change Grant Recipient, Leeway Foundation Philadelphia, PA

• Silver Star, Passion for Freedom “La Loba – Prostitute Ciudad Juárez”, London 

• Silver Star, ND Awards, Editorial: Documentary

  2017

• First Place/Best Series, Black and White International Awards Rome, Italy

Exhibition History

2024

• Old El Paso — Bridgette Mayer Gallery — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2023

• La Caravana Del Diablo — Blue Sky Gallery — Portland, Oregon

• Female in Focus — British Journal of Photography, The Bridge & Tunnel Gallery — Brooklyn, New York

• A World on the Move: Capturing the Plight of Those Who Fled and Those Who Stayed —

  Chicago Center for Photojournalism — Chicago, Illinois

• Oyako Shashin Matsuri Group Exhibition — The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan — Tokyo, Japan

• Ada Trillo & the Sirkhane DARKROOM — Houston Center of Photography — Houston, Texas

2022

• This Tender, Fragile Thing — Jack Shainman Gallery — The School, Kinderhook, NY

• Young Americans — Inliquid Philadelphia, PA made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts

• Reclaiming & Making Art, Desire, Violence — Museum Of Sex, NYC

• CARAVANAS DEL DIABLO — Los Angeles Museum of Social Justice 2021-2022

2021

• Reimagine Virtual Exhibit — Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival — Toronto, Canada

• Annual PX3 & “State of the World” — Paris, France October

• Open Walls Arles/ British journal of Photography at Galerie Huit — Arles, France.

• Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan — Tokyo, Japan

• Fotógrafas Latam — París, France

• 6th Edition of the Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography — Barcelona, Spain

• La Trienal: Estamos Bien 20/21 — El Museo del Barrio, NYC

• La Caravana Del Diablo — Melton Gallery — University of Central Oklahoma,OK

• Through the Lens: Modern Photography In Delaware Valley — James A. Michener Art

• Museum, DE

2020

• La Caravana — The New School Skybridge Artspace, Eugene Long College — New York, NY

• Female In Focus — (Cancelled Due to COVID-19)

• If Walls Could Speak: Asylum Seekers — The Noyes Museum of Art of Stockton University — Hammonton, NJ

• Virtual  Dallas Center For Photography:The Human Portrait — Dallas Texas 

• Chelsea International Photo Competition — Agora Gallery Group Exhibit — Chelsea, NY 2020-2021

• Rediscovery & Sensorial Reality — Agora Gallery NY

• The Artist Equity 71st Annual — Virtual Spring Exhibition

• PORTRAITS — Hellerau Photography Award Finalist Prize — Germany

• Tokyo International Foto Awards — Tokyo, Japan

• Foto Femme United/ Le Censure Exposition — Paris, France

• Foto Nostrum — Barcelona, Spain

2019

• Chasing Freedom: Portraits of the Migrant Caravan — University of the Arts — Philadelphia, PA

• “What Borders Do” — Penn Law

• The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA

• Beyond the Wall: Expanding the Immigration Conversation — University of Pennsylvania

• Center for Fine Art Photography — Fort Collins, CO

• Center for Emerging Visual Artist Fellowship — Philadelphia PA

• La Caravana — Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia PA 2019-2020

• If Walls Could Speak — St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia PA

• La Caravana Cortona on the Move Festival — Cortona, Italy

• Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

2018

• La Caravana Lens on Latin America — International House of Philadelphia

• The Decisive Moment — Praxis Gallery Minneapolis, MN

• The Unheroic Act — Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, NYC, NY

• Photo Meetings — Luxembourg, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

• The 33rd Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York, NY

• Passion for Freedom Art Festival — London England

• Chasing Freedom: The Migrant Caravan — University of the Arts Philadelphia PA

• Studio IX, Charlottesville, VA

2017

• How Did I Get Here — Twenty-Two Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

• Black and White International Awards — Rome, Italy (First Place, Best in Series)

• Leeway Foundation Art for Change Grant — Philadelphia PA

• Caliban Revisited — The DaVinci Art Alliance — Philadelphia, PA

• People, Places and Things Exhibition — The Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

2016 

• Works by Latin American Women — RASCO Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

•  New Works by Jose Ortiz-Pegan and Ada Trillo — RASCO Gallery, Philadelphia PA 

  Selected Lectures

  2023

• “Artist Talk: Ada Trillo for A World on the Move: Navigating Borders Amidst Conflict and War” — Chicago Center for Photojournalism

• “Artist Panel with Ada Trillo + Book Signing” — Houston Center for Photography

  2021

• “Humanizing Asylum for All Panel Discussion” — University of Pennsylvania

• “Virtual Panel Discussion: The Camera as a Social Justice Tool” — James A Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

• “Artist Studio Tour” — Hosted by Venture Cafe

• “Photojournalism Night” — Hosted by Photojournalism Hub

• “La Caravana Del Diablo Panel Discussion” — Melton Gallery, University of Central Oklahoma

  2020

• “Virtual Panel Discussion: If Walls Could Speak” — Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton University 

• “Thursday Night Photo Talk with Ada Trillo” Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

• “Virtual Collect and Connect” Focus Photo Los Angeles and Open Show Los Angeles

• “Panel Discussion: Migration and Mobility” — The New School University Center New York, NY

• “Ada Trillo Happs Interview” Red Canary Collective

•  “Fleisher From a Distance: Visual Artist in Residence Ada Trillo”

  2019

  “Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism” with Jimmie Briggs — International Center of Photography, New York, NY

  “If Walls Could Speak” — Saint Joseph's University Gallery, Marion Hall Philadelphia, PA

  “Cortona On the Move” — Cortona Italy

   “The Body & Photography” — University of Penn, School of Design

   “Penn Spectrum: Immigration” — University of Pennsylvania

   “Center Forward” — The Center for Fine Art Photography, CO

  2018

• “The Unheroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.”  Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College

  2017

• University of Pennsylvania School of Design Lecture 2017

• Human Trafficking Conference — Community College of Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• 2017

• Artist Talk, How did I get Here? — Twenty-Two Gallery Philadelphia PA 2017

  Selected Publications

  2022

• ‘Brave People Stepped Up to the Plate’: Remembering the Black Panthers Through Art — The Guardian

• Book La Caravana Del Diablo—Published by Komma No Ordinary Publisher The Netherlands

  2021

• Primal Sight: Sadie Cook and Efrem Zelony-Mindell in Conversation

• Hyperallergic—El Museo’s Triennial Gathers Works That Defy Pervasive Stereotypes Mapped onto Latinx-Art

  2020

• The Guardian—https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/20/trump-migrants-mexico-honduras-teargassed-deported-ada-trillo-best-photograph

• The Guardian—https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/17/la-caravana-del-diablo-a-migrant-caravan-in-mexico-photo-essay

• Vogue—Female in Focus 2020: Photogallery

• Mother Jones—Asylum is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died with It, November/December

• Red Canary Collective—Photography Documentary + Fine Art—Oct. 21, 2020 

• Docu Magazine, Issue 2, Volume 1, July 

• All About Photo Magazine, #10 Pages 98-103

• Lens Magazine Issue #69 Pages 142-157

• Lens Magazine Issue #66 Pages 120-137

• What Will You Remember?--Remarkable Images From Critical Mass 

       

  2019

• The Guardian, The Best Photography of Cortona on the Move Festival Aug 21

• British Journal of Photography, Journeys Issue 7886 August (Pg 10)

• Cortona on The Move Magazine, Cortona Italy, Series La Caravana (Pg 22) 

  2018

• Foto Edition Magazine, Germany (Pg 49)

• Photo Meetings Luxembourg 2018 (Pages 61-87)

  Selected Press

  2023

• Fleeing Desperation: A Review of Ada Trillo at Chicago Center for Photojournalism

• Ada Trillo: quando arte e attivismo si fondono

  2022

• Red Canary Collective—The Ones Who Stay: What remains amid the death and ruin of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—May 5

  2021

• Sybaris Collection — Beyond The Borders: A conversation with Ada Trillo — December

• Red Canary Collective — This Is Why I’m Here: Award-winning photographer Ada Trillo discusses documenting the human element of migrant narratives —November 8

• British Journal of Photography—La Caravana del Diablo: Ada Trillo’s distressing portrait of a US-bound migrant caravan—January 20  

• The Guardian—The migrants Trump forced Mexico to stop: Ada Trillo's best photograph—January 20

• Oklahoma City Free Press—La Caravana del Diablo exhibit reveals struggle, hope of Mexico’s caravans—January 16

  2020

• PhWuseum — Ada Trillo: La Caravana Del Diablo 

• Singapore International Photo Festival— La Caravana Del Diablo

• New Jersey Stage—Border Photographer Ada Trillo at Noyes Museum Exhibition—December 10

• Foto Femme United—Ada Trillo: La Caravan del Diablo—November 17

• Catalyst Interviews—Ada Trillo—October 21

• The Times-UK—Feature Photo—Oct. 27th

• The Guardian—La Caravana del Diablo: A Migrant Caravan in Mexico - Photo Essay—August 17

  2019

• Fleisher — Fleisher Welcomes Leeway Artist-in-Residence Ada Trillo— May 29

• Huffpost—Migrant Caravan Photographer Saw Heart-Wrenching Scenes Through Her Lens—April 22

• Philadelphia Magazine—A Philly Photographer's Wrenching images of the Migrant Caravan in Mexico—April 5 

• Generocity—Philly Photographer Ada Trillo Presents Photos of Migrant Experience at UArts—April 25

• British Journal of Photography, Journeys Issue 7886 —August, 2019 (Pg 10.)

• The Guardian—The Best photography of Cortona on the Move Festival—Aug 21

• Cortona on The Move Magazine—Series La Caravana—Cortona Italy, 2019. (Pg 22.)

• Artfix Daily Artwire—If Walls Could Speak, Ada Trillo Gives a Voice to the Voiceless in Her New Exhibit— September 23

• Strangefire—Q&A: Ada Trillo—October 31

• Philadelphia Inquirer—As Trump Marches on with Border Demands, A Philly Photographer’s view of the migrant Caravan Stuck in Mexico—January 11

  2018

• Al Día—Ada Trillo’s ‘Chasing Freedom’ exhibit presents a view into the lives, struggles, and strengths of Central American migrants—April

  2017

• Broad Street Review—Dark Travels in Mexico’s Skin Trade: Twenty Two Gallery Presents Ada Trillo’s ‘How Did I Get Here?”

• artblog—Heartbreaking documentary photographs by Ada Trillo at Twenty-Two Gallery—July 5

• Billy Penn—Philly artist Q&A: An exhibition on the struggles of Mexican sex workers—July 13

• NBC10 News—‘How Did I Get Here?': Philadelphia Artist Chronicles Secret Lives of Sex Workers—July 26

Education

• Workshop with Donna Ferrato, New York, NY 2023

• The Eddie Adams Workshop, Jefferson, NY, 2022

• Analog Photography Residence: Fleisher & Leeway Foundation Philadelphia, PA, 2019-2020

• Bachelor's Degree, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 2005

• Istituto Marangoni, Milan, Italy, 2001

Affiliations

• California State University, Northridge, Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, Border Studies

• Diversify Photo