TRENT TOMENGO IS AN ARTIST, SCHOLAR AND LECTURER.

He is currently a Professor of the Humanities at Seminole State College of Florida in Sanford. He holds a Masters of Fine Art degree in painting and a graduate certificate in museum studies from the University of South Florida.

Trent Tomengo’s intelligent, provocative, and finely crafted paintings are already well known in central Florida, where he has been featured in selected solo and group exhibitions. His work is primarily concerned with exploring ways of conveying the universality of all human beings.  Keenly aware of the divides human beings create among themselves, oftentimes with disastrous consequences, Tomengo uses his work to preach tolerance, acceptance, and mutual understanding. 

Portraiture has been a constant interest for Tomengo throughout his career and this series explores psychological and emotional features of sitters as well as physiognomy.  

Tomengo has served as juror and co-chair for Walt Disney World’s Festival of the Masters and has earned numerous awards including the Seventh Annual American Invitational Art Exhibition at the Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been the featured judge at various art festivals in the Central Florida area including the Apopka Art Festival and the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.  Tomengo has served as the assistant curator of the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts, a program of The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, a historical preservation organization.  He is a sought-out public speaker on spirituality and the human condition in art and was selected from an international pool of applicants to participate in the esteemed Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Program, sharing scholarship with American master painter, Robert Colescott. Represented by the International Portfolio Gallery in College Park, Tomengo’s paintings are earning their place in prestigious American collections.