TONO is US non-profit arts organization (501c3) dedicated to exploring and supporting time-based artwork, including performance, dance, music, and moving-image. Through direct commissions with artists and collaborations with institutional partners in the United States and abroad, TONO instigates new threads of research and networks of exchange. TONO was founded as a nomadic institution to imagine a model that best serves artists working with time-based practices to promote interdisciplinary processes, support experimental programming, and reach an active audience across diverse contexts.

TONO has organized projects with institutions including the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rockefeller Center, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Anahuacalli, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo Dolores Cárcamo, Centro de Cultura Digital, Centro Cultural España en México, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, all Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; and the Serpentine Galleries, London. These projects have involved co-commissioning artwork, touring artwork, and introducing artists to new audiences through exhibitions, screenings, talks, digital programming, and live programming.

TONO Festival serves as TONO’s laboratory – an annual event hosted in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico, that allows artists to experiment with new ideas. TONO Festivals 2023 and 2024 brought together over fifty artists from twenty-two countries to Mexico City and Puebla. Hosted across thirteen museums and music venues, the festival took over the city and featured a series of video installations, performances, music events, screenings, and talks.