Marilyn at the Bath Painting

A resident of Monterey Bay, California for over 30 years, Trish Triumpho Sullivan has participated in many group shows, and from 1998 to the present has held seventeen solo exhibitions of her ceramic sculpture, paintings and photographs. A 2002 graduate of California State University Monterey Bay with her B.A. in Visual and Public Art, and a minor in Spanish language, Sullivan currently holds a Masters of Arts in Arts Administration from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Ms. Sullivan's curatorial experience includes her work in both traditional and non-traditional venues. She has worked to create the Monterey Presidio Museum, The Smithsonian Show at the National Steinbeck Center for Woody Guthrie, the retrospective exhibition for the Monterey Pop Festival, and the Steinbeck in Hollywood show in 2001. In 2002 Sullivan curated an exhibition of traditional Mexican masks at the Hartnell Gallery. Sullivan was twice the recipient of the coveted Boronda International Art Scholarship, where she studied the art and culture of Spain, Mexico City and Oaxaca. The artist has traveled extensively in the Yucatan, Western and Central Mexico, as well as throughout Spain and Greece. She likes back roads travel, having followed the old Route 66 through Arizona and California, is fascinated with train travel and wishes to ride the rails around the United States and document the adventure in the future.