Tyquiengco is a scholar of global Indigenous art with an emphasis on Native American art and Aboriginal Australian art. At the MFA, she has been a member of the curatorial teams responsible for organizing the current exhibitions New Light: Encounters and Connections, which brings into dialogue more than 60 works from across the MFA’s collection, and Garden for Boston, a project led by artists and activists Ekua Holmes (African American, born 1955) and Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag, born 1973). Tyquiengco received her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, where her dissertation focused on contemporary Indigenous artists. She has taught at Brown University and the University of Pittsburgh and worked at the Fralin Art Museum and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, both at the University of Virginia, where she received her bachelor’s degree.