Adrian Bermeo is a New York City-born Puerto Rican-Ecuadorian visual artist from Jackson Heights, Queens.

Though he has made art nearly his entire life, Bermeo’s roots as a painter draws from formative experiences in graffiti, provoking ongoing dialogue into self-determination and social systems that define or divide groups of people. His abstract-figurations with tactile brush strokes and paint drips resemble intuitive, gestural characters and folkloric interpretations, engaged in critiquing modern ways of life: examining relationships with ancestral connections, ingrained social patterns, and contradictions in human nature.

He has exhibited with Local Project Art Space, 2017; Mana Contemporary, 2019; Novado Gallery, 2020; The Queens Museum, 2020; All Street NYC, 2022; 17 Frost Gallery, 2023; Elm Foundation, 2024; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 2024; The Bronx Museum, 2025 and more, with his works acquired internationally. 

As an independent curator and teaching artist, he has collaborated with numerous nonprofits and museums including MoMA; Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning; Flushing Town Hall; Queens Collaborative and Local Project Art Space. He has studied at Liga De Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico; SVA, NY, NY and has a BA in Studio Arts from Hunter College, 2025. He has been interviewed for his curatorial work by Hyperallergic, 2024.