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Holly Trusted (publishing as Marjorie Trusted) is a historian of British and Spanish sculpture. Previously Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum she is known in particular for her work on British and Spanish sculpture and was the lead curator for the Victoria and Albert Museum Cast Courts. Since January 2019, Trusted is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Trusted was Honorary Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2018-19.

From January 2019, Trusted has become an Honorary Senior Research Fellow and continues to research and lecture on art history while working on a book on German baroque sculpture. She served on the vetting committee of TEFAF Maastricht in March 2019 for Western Sculptures up to 1830.

Trusted's work on the baroque and later ivory collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum led to a major publication in 2013, Baroque & Later Ivories, which was praised in review for its detailed approach to the subject and described as a 'veritable magnum opus'. Trusted's previous work in 2007 on The arts of Spain: Iberia and Latin America 1450-1700 was also praised as "excellent" and "highly reliable".

In 2008 Trusted jointly curated an exhibition entitled The Return of the Gods at Tate Britain with Tim Knox and Helen Dorey (Sir John Soane’s Museum), and Martin Myrone (Tate Britain). The exhibition was the first in Britain to focus on British neoclassical sculpture. The exhibition included works by Thomas Banks, Antonio Canova, Joseph Nollekens, and Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Trusted was elected a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London in October 1999 and served as Honorary Vice-President in 2018-19. Trusted was the founding editor of The Sculpture Journal in 1997.

Trusted was educated at The Maynard School, Exeter and left in 1973. She gained her BA and MA at the University of Cambridge followed by her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Trusted joined the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1979 where she worked on British and Spanish sculpture as well as extensively on European decorative arts in the V&A collection such as ambers, ivories, and medals. As Senior Curator of Sculpture, Trusted was the lead curator for the redevelopment of the V&A Cast Courts, which opened in 2018. She gave the keynote lecture at The Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) conference Uniqueness and Multiplication: Plaster as an Art Material in October 2017 on the Cast Courts project.