Adrian Bermeo’s solo exhibition No Need To Reminisce frames heritage and ancestry not as distant relics or linear narratives, but as a living ethos of presence and connectivity. In a moment when historical facts are being severed and rewritten in the U.S., Bermeo presents a body of work that holds space toward the vitality of cultural knowledge preserved through the power of verbal and visual storytelling: unyielding in the face of censorship and cultural erasure. His new paintings, on view at Liv Gallery September 6 - October 4, 2025, are a series of topographical abstracts—presenting visceral testaments of personal memory, layered with both an urgency of Graffiti and a gestural nature to that of Abstract Expressionism. Referred to by the artist as “ancestral landscapes,” these paintings pose personal reflections on the sacred process of transmitting memory and inherited wisdom through imagery: reinforcing an act of care and cultural responsibility.
Adrian Bermeo (b. 1989) is a Puerto Rican-Ecuadorian visual artist and educator from Jackson Heights, Queens. He has studied at Liga De Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico; SVA; and Hunter College, NY, NY. Bermeo has served as a fellow teaching artist for MoMA, Flushing Town Hall, Local Project Art Space, and QNS Collaborative. He has exhibited work with Local Project Art Space, 2017; Mana Contemporary, 2019; Novado Gallery, 2020; The Queens Museum, 2020; Art House, 2021; All Street NYC, 2022; 17 Frost Gallery, 2023; Elm Foundation, 2024; and The Bronx Museum, 2025; among others.
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