In No Need To Reminisce, visual artist Adrian Bermeo responds to the erasure of cultural histories and marginalized peoples through layered abstraction and obscured commentary. His new works—referencing cultural iconography, migratory pathways, and communal exchanges—are as much about what is missing as what remains in society today: exploring themes of lineage, traditions, and familial stories passed down through word and ritual. Reclaiming narratives from a personal and political lens, Bermeo pushes against ethnic cleansing and censorship carried out by the recent administration in the U.S., to propose a subversive-reality—one embedded with cyclical legacies of ancestral presence and wisdom. While referencing his own lived experiences and findings as a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican-Ecuadorian heritage, Bermeo prompts audiences to reflect and reconcile with an irrefutable truth: intergenerational knowledge and identity has endured for centuries—despite divisive tools of legislation, propaganda, and colonial advancements.
Adrian Bermeo (b. 1989, Queens, NY) is a Puerto Rican-Ecuadorian visual artist and curator. 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; amongst others.
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