“As a painter, I Want To Examine Social Dynamics, shaped by our primal Behaviors and the human Condition.”

BIO

Adrian Bermeo (b. 1989) is a New York City-born Puerto Rican-Ecuadorian visual artist, currently based in Jersey City, NJ. His artwork, detectable by gestural painting and intuitive mark-making, draws heavily from his formative experiences in graffiti.

Bermeo’s paintings and curatorial practice examine social dynamics shaped by identity, belonging, and spiritual connections, subconsciously coinciding with his life experiences and upbringing in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. Through abstract symbolism, primal relationships and social behaviors are represented through color and form, exploring nuances of human nature and its conditions for survival.

Bermeo studied at Liga de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico; School of Visual Arts, NY, NY; and Hunter College, NY, NY. He has exhibited throughout NYC and Jersey City, with his paintings acquired by private collectors internationally. He has collaborated in public programs as a visual artist and curator for a number of small businesses, nonprofits, galleries, and cultural institutions such as the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning; Local Art Project Art Space; The Blue Bus Project; The Local NY; Art Retail Therapy; 82nd Street Partnership; The Queensboro; Solas Studios; Eminent; All Street NYC; NYC Parks Department; Astor Place Hairstylists; Con Artist Collective and more. Bermeo has been featured in Hyperallergic as curator and served as a teaching artist through Family Fellowship Programs for MoMA.