Adam Rompel was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received his BA in Art Practice with a focus on New Genres & Installation from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. Since school, Rompel had exhibited regularly until he decided "to open & run the type of gallery that I would liked to have shown in" (Lucky Tackle, 2002-05). Most recently, he participated in New Langton Art's Five Habitats in San Franisco, CA and finished a solo show entilted: Transmundane Diversions at The Office in Huntington Beach, CA. Currently, he splits his time between Oakland and San Francisco.