ADA TRILLO

           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

  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

      Selected Exhibition History

      2024

Picturing The Border, Group Exhibition on view now until January 5, 2025 __ Cleveland Museum Of Art

• 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

Books

2022

La Caravana Del Diablo—"Photographer Ada Trillo considers it her mission to portray this distressing situation to create awareness and a call to action toward a humane immigration policy. In the book 'La Caravana del Diablo,' she doesn't look away but confronts us with her powerful images." written by Helen Cunningham and published by Uitgeverij Komma, The Netherlands.