Los Angeles based artist John Trevino was born in 1972 and raised in Long Beach, CA.  He received his B.A. in Black Studies and Art Studio in 1995 from U.C. Santa Barbara and MFA in painting from Howard University in 2000.  In his work, Trevino pursues information that is acquired from personal experiences, observations, and reflections on the surrounding environment as a way of documenting aspects of contemporary culture.  Working primarily in painting and mixed media, Trevino feels the range of these materials mirror the diversity of his experiences and allow the artist the flexibility and freedom to visually navigate this territory. 

In addition to studio work, he has painted murals in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., as well as exhibited work in both cities.  In 2011 he received an ARC grant through the Center for Cultural Innovation in Los Angeles to complete a series of underwater photographs in which he photographed residents from the South Bay communities of Los Angeles in everyday clothes in the Pacific Ocean.  In 2015, images from this series were selected for the Metro Silver Line project along the 110 Freeway and expanded into two larger compositions that were then installed at the USC/37th St Station.   Most recently he was one of ten inaugural grantees of the Los Angeles Lakers’ In The Paint program.  In his continued pursuit of aquatic themes in his work, he is currently in the process of customizing a pair of kayaks to reach some of the more inaccessible parts of the southern California coastline in order to scuba dive from them and use these experiences to inform his future work.