(b. Havana, Cuba, 1941).
Bermúdez briefly attended the Havana Academy and in 1938 traveled to Mexico, studying at the Academia de San Carlos where he saw the work of the Mexican muralists first- hand. He graduated with a degree in Diplomatic and Consular law from the National University in 1940. He worked as a color separator for a magazine earlier on and this experience gave him a strong background working with color. His work from the 1940s has an almost caricatured quality, while in the 1950s his work abandons folkloric themes and he begins to paint tropical forms and elongated human forms. Before Bermúdez was exiled from Cuba in 1967 he became known for his series of Gusanitas (women who store furniture in anticipation of the return of those in exile). Bermúdez settled in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he has worked as a painter, muralist, ceramicist, and lithographer. His work was included in the 1944 exhibition Modern Cuban Painters at the Muse
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