Lou Bermingham is a San Jose State University Art graduate. He works in a variety of media: paintings, drawings, and architectural glass panels. Lou has shown his artwork in the U.S., France, and Cairo, Egypt. His studio is in the ghost town of Holy CIty, in the Santa Cruz Mountians of Northern California.

In the Bay Area, Lou has exhibited at the San Francisco galleries of Morrell Morrell and In the Distance. In San Jose, he has shown his work at the De Silva Gallery, Allegra, On Location, The Citadel, The Institute of Contemporary Art, WORKS Contemporary Art Gallery, and the San Jose Museum of Art, as well as at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. Lou has shown in Los Gatos at the Hathaway Collection, Fiona James Gallery, Infinite Desires, and the Los Gatos Art Museum. He has shown at the West Valley College Campus Gallery in Saratoga, and in Santa Cruz, Lou has exhibited in juried shows at the Santa Cruz Art League.

In 1995, Lou won one of three Merit Awards, given by Juror Rebecca Schapp, director of the de Saisset Museum of Santa Clara University, for the Santa Cruz Art League's "Relationships" show. He has also won awards through the Los Gatos Art Association.

Lou was accepted, for the month of September 1995, to an artist-in-residence program at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

In 1997, Lou had a solo show at Frederick's Gallery in New York City.

Lou has clients in Paris and St. Malo, Brittany. In Paris, the accounting firm of Cabinet Arca and Laurencin Architectural Associates collect him. Dessein de Ville-Architects/Urban Development of Toulouse and Bordeaux collects his work as well. Lou also has collectors of his art work in the U.S., Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia.

Lou has traveled throughout much of Europe and Mexico. As an art student he spent a year abroad studying painting and drawing, as well as stained glass design, in Aix-en-Provence, France. He lived for a year in Egypt and has been to other countries in Africa several times, and he has traveled to Asia as well.