Hermes Berrio Miami Beach Artist

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct
Miami, FL

Hermes Berrio Miami Beach Artist

Hermes Berrío (b. 1980, Colombia), currently living and working in Miami. He received his BFA from New York, University (2005). In recent years, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions around the world for galleries and institutions in the U.S. and Colombia, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Australia, and Canada.

In 2018 and 2022 he was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and in 2019 from the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation; In 2023 he received a South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant. He has been a Fountainhead Studio artist resident since May 2019 and is represented by Fabien Castanier Gallery in Miami. He continues to evolve his practice, investigating new processes and mediums, while challenging contemporary expectations with his prodigious compositions.

Hermes Berrío, transitioned to a global environment from early on, living between Bogota, Florence and New York, enabling him to expand his boundaries while exposing him to new opportunities. Ever since moving to Miami, he has grown his artistic career, finding inspiration through the city’s rich landscape and cultural diversity. 

His practice captures the significance of everyday life, relating the grand scope that emphasizes both the mundane and the extraordinary. His urban style embedded within mixed media utilizes materials ranging from oil and aerosol, to textiles and gold leaf. In addition to carrying out a physical examination, Berrio conducts a conceptual survey, with reality as the foundation of his practice, creating a vibrant narrative and a personal reflection on the world. He continues to find inspiration in these unusual and yet commonplace experiences, by exploring the complexity of such simple moments and rendering them on a monumental scale.

Berrio’s paintings are at once deeply personal snapshots of his people and his city, and a sublimely laid out perspective that feels universal and unpretentious, his pieces are documentary-like in nature, derived from the artist’s photographs. Reaching beyond the simplicity of such fundamental daily happenings, Berrio’s paintings present a monumental vision of urban life. He has re-imagined, re-arranged, and metamorphosed visions of a cultural and personal landscape, seeking new ways to interpret one’s truth visually.