JAMES TRIGG WAS BORN IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO IN 1951, AND HAS LIVED IN OR NEAR THE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO ALL OF HIS LIFE.  HIS FATHER NOTICED HIS TALENT AT AN EARLY AGE, AND 
ARRANGED FOR JAMES TO START PRIVATE ART LESSONS WITH FARMINGTON ARTIST PEARL SCOTT WHILE 
HE WAS STILL IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.  CONTINUING HIS STUDIES THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, JAMES WON 
MANY HONORS BOTH STATEWIDE AND LOCALLY.  JAMES GRADUATED FROM FORT LEWIS COLLEGE IN 
DURANGO, COLORADO IN 1974 WITH A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN FINE ART.  HE COMPLETED HIS 
STUDIES IN THE TOP TEN PERCENT OF HIS CLASS RECEIVING CUM LAUDE HONORS.

PAINTING PROFESSIONALLY SINCE GRADUATING FROM COLLEGE, JAMES HAS COME TO CONCENTRATE
PRIMARILY ON SOUTHWESTERN THEMES IN OILS. HIS STRONG DESIRE TO CONTINUALLY IMPROVE
 HIS WORK HAS LED HIM TO COMPLETE MANY CLASSES AND SEMINARS AND SEEK CRITIQUES FROM 
OTHER WELL KNOWN ARTISTS. HE HAS ALSO TAUGHT ART AT THE NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY,
 SAN JUAN BRANCH, COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM; AND FOR A PRIVATE ART SCHOOL IN FARMINGTON,
 NEW MEXICO.

JAMES HAS HAD SEVERAL ONE-MAN AND TWO-MAN SHOWS, THE MOST RECENT BEING A ONE MAN SHOW 
ENTITLED "LIGHT AND SHADOW" AT THE MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST IN MIDLAND, TEXAS IN NOVEMBER 
AND DECEMBER OF 2005.  THE MUSEUM ALSO ACCEPTED AS A GIFT HIS PAINTING "JEWEL OF SANTA FE" FOR
 IT'S SOUTHWESTERN COLLECTION AT THAT TIME.  A NOTABLE TWO MAN SHOW WAS WITH SANTA FE ARTIST 
ROD HUBBLE IN OCTOBER 1990, AT THE FINE ARTS GALLERY AT SAN JUAN COLLEGE IN FARMINGTON, 
NEW MEXICO.  DURING THE SHOW, THE COLLEGE ACQUIRED JAMES' PAINTING, "THE TOTAH", FOR ITS 
PERMANENT COLLECTION.  JAMES' WORK IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTION OF THE  GEORGE 
PHIPPEN MUSEUM IN PRESCOTT, ARIZONA.

JAMES TRIGG'S WORK HAS SHOWN IN MANY JURIED EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING THE COLORADO 
INTERCOLLEGIATE EXHIBITION AT THE COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER  IN JUNE OF 1974; THE 
NEW MEXICO ART LEAGUE NATIONAL SMALL PAINTING EXHIBITION IN 1977; THE NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR 
FINE ARTS COMPETITION, 1977 AND 1980;  AS WELL AS WINNING BEST OF SHOW FOR HIS BOOTH AT THE 
PAGOSA SPRINGS, COLORADO JURIED ARTS AND CRAFTS SUMMER FESTIVAL IN 1977.  IN ADDITION, JAMES 
HAS SHOWN AT THE "CHINS" BENEFIT FINE ART SHOW IN FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO FROM, 1989 TO 
1995.  HE HAS SHOWN AT THE TOTAH FESTIVAL FOUNDATION FINE ARTS SHOW IN FARMINGTON
 FROM 1989 TO 1991.  ONE OF HIS PAINTINGS WAS ALSO SHOWN WITH THE SECOND ONE
HUNDRED FROM THE 1989 "ARTS FOR THE PARKS"COMPETITION AT THE "ARTISTS OF THE WEST" 
EXHIBITION AND SALE PUT ON BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF COLORADO SPRINGS IN JANUARY 1990.  MORE 
RECENTLY, JAMES HAS BEEN INVITED TO SHOW HIS WORK IN THE PRESTIGIOUS NITA STEWART HALEY 
MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN MIDLAND, TEXAS, AT THEIR CHRISTMAS MINIATURE SHOW IN DECEMBER, 1996 
THROUGH 1998, AND AT THEIR ANNUAL FUND RAISER IN THE SPRING OF EACH YEAR FROM 1992 TO 2007.  
JAMES' WORK WAS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL PLEIN AIR PAINTER'S
 "NATURE OBSERVED"  SHOW AT THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY IN SEPTEMBER 2005, 
THE 2006 NAPPAP NATIONAL SHOW AT THE ELK HORN GALLERY IN WINTER PARK, COLORANO AND AT 
THE 2007 NAPPAP NATIONAL SHOW AT THE TEXAS GALLERY IN DALLAS TEXAS.  HE HAS BEEN A SIGNATURE 
MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL PLEIN AIR PAINTERS SINCE 1998.  ONE OF HIS 
PAINTINGS "STILL WATERS" HAS ALSO BEEN INCLUDED IN THE BOOK "PLEIN AIR NEW MEXICO, VOLUME ONE 
OF THE JACK RICHESON FINE ART SERIES".