Joseph S. Trovato (1912-1983) was a painter and museum administrator who worked mainly in New York.
Trovato was born in Guardavalle, Italy before immigrating to the United States. He took part in the Armory Show for several years and helped to organize the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute's Olympics in Art (1980) exhibition. He taught classes at Hamilton College and did work for the Work Progress Administration in the 1940s. From 1964-1965 he completed twenty-four oral history interviews in partnership with the Archives of American Art.
Trovato died in 1983 in Utica, New York.