2008　M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005　B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Selected Exhibitions
2012　"I DEFY YOU ALL", Elmhurst Art Museum, Curated by Aaron Ott, Elmhurst, IL
2012　"Mystics: A Blessed Rage for Order", Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of Contemporary Art, Bric Arts New York, NY
2012　"Pulp II Works on Paper, Works with Paper", Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL
2012　"UNEXPECTED PROTOCOL", New Work by Deborah Karpman and Mario Trejo, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham , AL
2012　"FOCUS FOUR", Illinois State Museum at Lockport,Curated By Robert Sill, Lockport IL
2012　"CATHARSISM", Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2011　"Focus 4", University of Illinois Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011　"Is this painting?", raumZWEI Gallery, Birmingham , AL
2011　"Centered", Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2010　Firat Erdim: Sculpture and Drawings / Mario Trejo: New Work, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010　"Gallery Group Exhibition", Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010　"Mario Trejo - New Works", The Metropolitan Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2010　"In Space of Color", Chesterfield Arts, St. Louis, MO
2009　"Museum of Pocket Art Retrospective", The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2009　New American Paintings, No. 83, Juried by Lynn Warren, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Flat Files, Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
"Mario Trejo: Catharsis", Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008　"Cream from the Top", Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
2008　Site Santa Fe Biennial 2008, Lucky Number Seven, collaboration with Scott Lyall, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2008　Site Santa Fe Biennial 2008, Lucky Number Seven, collaboration with Hiroshi Fuji, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2008　"Vernissage", Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
2008　"Ways and Means", W.A.M. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008　"Shelters I", Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
2008　"Shelters II", Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
2007　"Entropic Wisdom", Diego Rivera Gallery, San Fracisco, CA
2007　"Evolution The Exhibition", Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007　"One Million", Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA