Past Exhibitions

Through January 6, 2024 Bermudez Projects is excited to announce a new partnership with LAist and Southern California Public Radio by producing specially-curated exhibits for its corporate offices, welcoming back its employees. In Afro Futures, [...]

October 14 through November 11, 2023 Extended through November 25 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 14, 6-9 pm Emmanuel Crespo, who joined the gallery in 2014 has been wickedly fun to watch develop as a man [...]

September 9 through October 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 6-9 pm How do you reclaim history? Use the very means that spread the historical lies in the first place! In a new show [...]

July 22 through August 12, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 22, 6-9 pm In his debut Los Angeles solo show at Bermudez Projects, Richmond, Virginia-based Andrew Norris reflects on the spectacle of celebrity and the [...]

June 24 through July 15, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 24, 6-9 pm “Memory is like a phantom mirror. It sometimes shows things too distant to be seen, and sometimes it shows them as if [...]

May 27 through June 17, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 27, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to announce La Reina de los Sueños, presenting a new body of work by the formidable Chicana artist, [...]

April 22 through May 13, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is very excited to announce No Parking on PalomaresBLVD, the debut solo exhibition by its newest artist, Francisco Palomares, one [...]

February 25 through April 15, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 25, 6-9 pm More than any other city, Los Angeles is shaped by the immigrants who make it their home. So it’s fitting that, in [...]

January 28 through February 18, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 28, 6-9 pm Joshua trees are the sentinels of the Mojave, standing like scarecrows. But now, they’re more like storm crows, waving their arms to [...]

December 17, 2022 through January 14, 2023 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 17, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects in Cypress Park, never a safe space for art snobs, is about to open what may be its most [...]

November 12 through December 10, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12, 6-9 pm Over the 9 years Erynn Richardson has been showing at Bermudez Projects, she has achingly portrayed the destruction humans have wrought on [...]

September 3 through October 29, 2022 Extended through October 29, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 3, 6-9 pm The war is over, the artists have regrouped and rebuilt, and can now finally take stock of [...]

July 30 through August 27, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 30, 6-9 pm The fifth and final part of Bermudez Projects’ groundbreaking series FAST FORWARD is finally here! The first four exhibits in the series broke down [...]

June 25 through July 23, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 25, 6-9 pm The fourth installment of Bermudez Projects’ groundbreaking look into the future of art arrives Saturday in Cypress Park, with FAST FORWARD | [...]

May 21 through June 18, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 6-9 pm The Future is Brown saw the juxtaposition of Chicano legends like Carlos Almaraz and Frank Romero and their literal and figurative artistic [...]

April 16 through May 14, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 6-9 pm With barely a pause to catch its breath after The Future Is Brown, which paired the works of veteran Chicano and Latino [...]

March 19 through April 9, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 19, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to announce the first installment of an ambitious 5-part series of exhibitions looking at the future of art. [...]

January 15 through February 26, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, January 22, 6-9 pm Carlos Almaraz (1941-1989) painted murals and giant oils, works that burst with color and images of Echo Park, car crashes, and other [...]

December 4, 2021 through February 26, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 4, 6-8 pm. Bermudez Projects is proud to present Robert Martin: TWO BUCKS, the third exhibit in our gallery’s new installation-based space dedicated solely to BIPOC [...]

November 13 through December 31, 2021 Opening Reception Saturday, November 13, 6-9 pm As the climate emergency progresses inexorably, we’re going to have to adapt to the changes it will bring to our world. And [...]

September 11 through October 30, 2021 Opening Reception Hosted by Alfred Fraijo Jr. and Arturo Becerra-Fraijo Saturday, September 11, 6-9 pm With six monumental body sculptures, Enrique Castrejon’s new exhibit “Mind Heart Rectum” puts the [...]

KAMARIA SHEPHERD | She Learned Herself Awake July 10 through August 28, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is pleased to present Kamaria Shepherd | She Learned Herself Awake, the second [...]

LETICIA MALDONADO | Autonoetic July 10 through August 28, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 6-9 pm Why does Leticia Maldonado work in neon? Maybe it’s because of the pizzazz of Vegas, where Maldonado grew [...]

THIS IS BERMUDEZ PROJECTS! 10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2011-2021 May 29 through June 26, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 5, 6-8 pm In late May of 2011, 150 people took two creaky elevators eight stories above [...]

March 20 through April 24, 2021 Extended to May 15, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 5-8 pm NELA/Cypress Park Bermudez Projects is excited to present Ana Serrano | a sense of place, the artist's [...]

March 20 through April 24, 2021 Extended to May 15, 2021 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 5-8 pm NELA/Cypress Park Inaugurating a new series of installation-based exhibitions dedicated solely to BIPOC + LGBTQ artists, "Del [...]

March 21 through April 10 This is an Artsy Online Exclusive Bermudez Projects is proud to present No Woman Stands Alone, the gallery's first Artsy Online Exclusive exhibition. Uniting these three Los Angeles-based artists for the [...]

May 8 through May 29, 2021 DTLA Bermudez Projects is excited to present We Now Interrupt Our Scheduled Programming, launching the release of Series 3 of its Bermudez Projects Editions. This exhibition of special never-before-seen [...]

January 23 through February 27, 2021 Bermudez Projects is pleased to present Forgotten, Josh Patterson’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In this latest series, Patterson comprises a collection of photographs documenting places that [...]

November 14 through December 26, 2020 Extended through January 16, 2021! Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14, 6-9 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to present Metamorphosis, an exhibition of paintings and prints by LA artist Yolanda [...]

August 1 through August 29, 2020 This Side of Eden, a group exhibition featuring the works of 7 artists, including Carlos Almaraz, Emmanuel Crespo, Cody Norris, Josh Patterson, John S. Rabe, Frank Romero, and Ana [...]

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January 11 through February 29, 2020 Opening reception: Saturday January 11, 7-10 pm In 2018, Josh Patterson took Bermudez Projects on a medium-focus Sojourn to the wilds around Southern California, in a show that often left us asking, “How did he [...]

November 9 through December 28, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 9, 7-10 pm For half a dozen years, artist Erynn Richardson has been best known for her somber explorations of the boundary between people and [...]

October 5 through November 30, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5, 7-10 pm Bermudez Projects | DTLA Bermudez Projects is proud to present Wilfredo Santana Magic Queerdoms: Drag Deities, the artist’s debut solo exhibit at our DTLA [...]

September 7 through October 26, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 7-10 pm “My grandmother used to say, ‘When fear comes to visit, you invite it in so you can sit across from it and [...]

July 13 through August 31, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 7-10 pm Bermudez Projects is proud to present Leticia Maldonado Should you need us…, the artist’s debut solo exhibit at our NELA/Cypress Park space. The [...]

June 8 through July 27, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 7-10 pm As we celebrate Los Angeles Pride Month, Bermudez Projects is excited to present our latest exhibit, Luke Reichle | Covet, featuring a [...]

April 20 through May 25, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 20, 7-10PM With his debut solo exhibit here in the United States, Mexican artist Maximiliano Navarrete addresses the myriad facets of peripheral sexualities, gender identity, [...]

March 9 through April 27, 2019 Extended through May 18, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present Gordon Henderson | Unknown Landmarks, a new exhibit of over 20 paintings [...]

February 2 through 23, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 7-10 pm Bermudez Projects is excited to present We Now Interrupt Our Scheduled Programming, featuring the newly-released series of limited-edition prints published exclusively by Bermudez [...]

November 10 through December 29, 2018 Extended through January 26! Opening Reception: Saturday, November 10, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is delighted to present To the Moon and Back, Emmanuel Crespo’s latest exhibit and book launch party [...]

September 8 through October 8, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents SPACELAND IV | Unification, the fourth iteration of the multi-exhibit SPACELAND Biennial series. On view through October 27, 2018, [...]

April 14 through June 16, 2018 Extended through July 14, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 14, 7-10PM Hosted by Brad and George Takei For nearly a decade, former public radio personality John S. Rabe has been [...]

March 24 through May 26, 2018 Extended through June 23, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 24, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects’ latest exhibit takes you into the woods … and into the desert … and into the [...]

February 17 through March 31, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 17, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to announce Ana Serrano’s La Yarda, the artist’s debut solo exhibit at Bermudez Projects | NELA/Cypress Park. Spanglish for [...]

October 7 through November 25, 2017 Extended through February 24, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 7, 7-10PM What motivates an artist’s work? In the case of Cody Norris, the driving force behind his poignant, atmospheric [...]

September 9 through October 28, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 7-10PM Before he became a constellation, the mythical Orion was a giant hunter with a big club and a propensity for forcing himself on [...]

July 8 through August 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 8, 7-10PM It is obvious that Jesse K. Phillips’ family is quite important to him. The ambient sound installation that fills the entire gallery at [...]

June 10 through July 29, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 10, 7-10PM The bust is a form of statuary originating in ancient times. For more than 3,300 years, ever since the Creation of the famous [...]

May 13 through June 24, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 13, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents Johnny Taylor | Hidden Cities, the artist's third solo exhibit in Los Angeles. Taylor’s paintings reiterate a lifetime of [...]

March 11 through April 29, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 11, 7-10PM After more than five years of hosting leading-edge gallery shows in the heart of Downtown LA, Bermudez Projects has announced the opening of [...]

October 29 through November 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 7-10PM Kellan Shanahan tells us that “Nature itself is the greatest teacher.” He is an astronaut of the universe within us. His ink-on-paper renderings [...]

    September 10 through October 8, 2016 Opening Reception, Saturday, September 10, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects proudly presents SPACELAND III | Aftermath, the third chapter in what is now the [...]

April 23 through June 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 7-10PM Emmanuel Crespo’s broad-spectrum personal iconography includes whales, paper boats, grasshoppers, goldfish, umbrellas and other images drawn from the bottomless depths of his imagination [...]

February 20 through March 26, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present the debut solo exhibition of Sean Patrick Sullivan | Blur, opening February 20, 2016 at its sky-lit [...]

November 7 through December 19, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 7-10PM The hauntingly beautiful and brooding artworks of Camilla Taylor beckon audiences to draw ever closer toward them in order to achieve a deeper [...]

September 5 through October 24, 2015 Opening Reception: September 5, 7-10PM   Call her “The Re-Animator.” In her new show at Bermudez Projects in Downtown Los Angeles, Erynn Richardson brings back to life the deer [...]

July 18 through August 15, 2015 Private Collectors Reception: Saturday, July 18, 7-10PM […]

APRIL 18 through MAY 23, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present Nanci Amaka | Beast, the artist’s first solo exhibit in which she explores the aftermath of trauma, identity, [...]

February 21 – March 28, 2015 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 21, 7-10PM It is literally “International Women’s Year” at Bermudez Projects as owner and curator Julian Bermudez, is devoting his Downtown Los Angeles art space [...]

Crespo_The First Lesson November 15 through December 27, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, Novembver 15, 7-10PM A man seeks counsel from a whale as a murder of crows fly overhead; a young elephant [...]

October 4 through October 25, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects’ best-selling artist, Amanda Beckmann, whose works have spurred near riots at the gallery, is back with “Acknowledged,” an exhibit of 26 new [...]

September 6 through September 27, 2014 3 Year Anniversary Group Show Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 7-10PM Back in 2012, “SPACELAND,” Bermudez Projects’ first group show to be presented in its Downtown Los Angeles aerie, [...]

June 7 through July 26, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present “Synthesis,” a two-man show featuring the works of emerging artists Kevin Cheng and Kellan Shanahan.Each artist renders stunningly beautiful images [...]

April 5 through May 31, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 7-10PM Bermudez Projects is proud to present “Striking at Wind,” a new series of paintings by Vancouver-based artist Johnny Taylor. Taylor, whose method of internalizing his [...]

February 8 through March 29, 2014 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 8, 7-10PM In “i Am a Camera,” an artist at last delivers an un-snarky, un-ironic take on iPhone culture. And who better to do it [...]

November 16 through December 21, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 7-10PM

September 28 through November 2, 2013 Exploring the nuances of solitude and isolation, Enrique Castrejon chose to create his own personal universe by producing a multi-platformed symphonic exhibition in three stages: a large-scale, site specific installation, [...]

June 8 through August 4, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8, 7-10PM Erynn Richardson is a reluctant romantic, but you wouldn't get that when experiencing her intricately constructed mixed media etchings. Her new show, “Ethereal [...]

February 9 through April 30, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9, 7-10PM As host of 89.3-KPCC’s Off-Ramp, John Rabe delights local public radio listeners with broadcasts combining the best journalistic practices with his highly personal [...]

January 5 through January 26, 2013 Kicking off its new year, Bermudez Projects presented highlights from its collection in its Downtown Los Angeles space featuring the works of Amanda Beckmann, Enrique Castrejon, Gordon Henderson, John [...]

November 30, 2012 through January 18, 2013 In commemoration of World AIDS Day, AltaMed Health Services presented an exhibit featuring the works of Enrique Castrejon, Ruben Esparza and Miguel Angel Reyes, long-standing members of the community and ardent [...]

November 3 through December 29, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 3, 7-10PM You want to be careful when you meet collage artist Carlos Ulloa at his new show Calamitous Conundrums at Bermudez Projects in downtown [...]

September 1 through October 27, 2012 Opening Reception: September 1, 7-10PM To inaugurate its fall season, Bermudez Projects is delighted to welcome its first international show, Light Years, by Canadian artist Johnny Taylor who is [...]

July 26 through October 20, 2012 Curated in partnership with KPCC 89.3 Southern California Public Radio to further SCPR’s mission of connecting the communities of Southern California, this exhibit examined how artists utilize visual imagery to critique [...]

June 2 through July 28, 2012 Opening Reception: June 2, 7-10PM It's probably safe to say that no start-up gallery in downtown LA has ever had a first year to match Bermudez Projects, which included [...]

April 7 through May 25, 2012 Opening Reception: April 7, 7-10PM She wakes up at 5 every morning, climbs the stairs to her mother's attic, puts on Martin Denny's "Exotica" album, and gets out the [...]

February 2 through March 22, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 2, 7-10PM Waifs & Strays, Enrique Castrejon’s examination of queer subculture, investigates, dissects, and reinterprets images of the male form. the artist uses mathematical equations [...]

November 11, 2011 through January 14, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11, 7-10PM During the 1950s, David Weidman began his career as a commercial illustrator and animator, earning great acclaim for working with the upstart [...]

October 19 through December 30, 2011 As part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, 89.3 KPCC’s AirTalk hosted a conversation with Chicano artists looking back at this critical period in art history when [...]

September 9 through October 29, 2011 Opening Reception: September 9, 7-10PM For more than a quarter-century, LA-based artist and performer Gordon Henderson has been beguiling his fans with the Nib Geebles calendar. The 26th Calendar, [...]

July 7 through August 24, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 7, 7-10PM Amanda Beckmann’s beautifully rendered collages-on-board are like spending a long, lazy afternoon in the best second-hand store imaginable, leafing through dog-eared books and [...]

May 26 through June 22, 2011 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 26, 6-9PM Dark, beautiful, and melancholic, John Rabe’s photographs of discarded television sets are reminders of our own mortality. The hyper-saturated Polaroid-inspired images, taken with [...]

October 14 through October 27, 2010 Popular culture, queer images, politics, sex and images of beauty all inspire Enrique Castrejon’s mesmerizing artworks. Through mathematical equations, Castrejon meticulously transforms graphic imagery into geometric line-drawings on paper [...]

January 28 through January 31, 2010 David Weidman began his career as a commercial illustrator and animator during the 1950s. During the 1960s and 1970s, he produced an extensive body of work, including lithographs, serigraphs, [...]