Tryna Lyons

Tryna Lyons is a Seattle-based art historian who holds a doctoral degree in South Asian Art History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in a broad range of topics, with special focus on the worlds of traditional artists and religious practitioners. In Rajasthan, she delved into the lives of painters attached to a Hindu pilgrimage temple, and sought to tease out the identities of mediaeval artisans at a nearby dynastic site. In Bengal, she explored the aesthetic realm of the ephemeral clay-icon pujas, and in West Punjab traced a mystical theme with Sufi implications in 19th-century wall paintings. One of her recent essays, “Some Historic Ta`ziyas of Multan” (2015), broaches a topic with which she is now deeply engaged. She is presently working on a book about the wooden Muharram shrines of Pakistan.

Some of Dr. Lyons's publications have been uploaded to https://independent.academia.edu/TrynaLyons