[1] She later ran the art galleries Grand Salon, Tricia Collins Grand Salon, and Tricia Collins Contemporary Art in New York City until the year 2000.
[2] Born in Miami, Collins grew up in Tallahassee, Florida and moved to New York City in 1979.
[3][4] In 1984, Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo[5] began working together as curators to transform the group show into a critical statement.
[6] Her exhibitions and critical writings with Collins & Milazzo brought to prominence a new generation of artists in the 1980s.
[7] It was their exhibitions[8] and writings that originally fashioned the theoretical context for a new kind of Post-conceptual art that argued simultaneously against Neo-Expressionism and Picture-Theory Art.