She holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Arts of the University od Porto and the Iceland Academy of Arts. She was recently granted a Masters degree in Art&Science from the Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien with the support of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Maria Trabulo exhibits regularly since 2011. Selected solo exhibitions: Desertado. Algo Que Aconteceu Pode Acontecer Novamente. (Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 2019), A Reinvenção do Esquecimento (Novo Banco Revelação Award, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal, 2018), Almost Blue (Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Vienna, Austria, 2017), Memory of Stone (A Ilha, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016).

Selected group shows: Walk & Talk Festival (Azores, Portugal, 2019), BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Porto and Braga, Portugal, 2019) E Livres Habitamos a Sunstância do Tempo (Casa da Cerca, Almada, Portugal 2019), A Sexta Parte do Mundo (Museu do Neo-Realismo, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, 2017), Tension & Conflict. Video Art after 2008 (MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017), Consequential choices: Versions of Atlas Making (Angewandte Innovation Lab, Viena, Austria, 2015).

Her work is presented in many national and international private collections, as well as public collections, such as: EDP Foundation, Cerveira Biennial Foundation, University of Porto, Elvas Contemporary Art Museum and Porto Municipality.