Adrian L. Burrell is a third-generation Oakland artist utilizing photography, installation, and experimental media. Burrell's work examines issues of race, class, and intergenerational dynamics, inviting moments where collective storytelling can be a site for remembering. He is a US Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, Film) and Stanford University (MFA, Department of Art & Art History), where he lectured, served as the Black Graduate Student Community Outreach Chair, and was a Visiting Artist with Stanford's Institute for Diversity in Arts. Burrell was a 2021 YBCA Creative Cohort Fellow and has held residencies at SFFILM, Black Rock Senegal, and the Black Freedom Fellowship in Salvador, Brazil. He has held solo exhibitions at the Minnesota Street Foundation and the ICA San Jose.

Burrell has lived and worked on four continents, and his work has been featured in The New Yorker, Black Star Film Festival, PopUp Magazine, Photo Ville, the Pingyao International Photography Festival in China, and SFMOMA, where his series It's After the End of the World, Don't You Know That Yet?, a collective self-portrait examining normalized violence inflicted on Black lives, resides in the permanent collection. He received the San Francisco Camerawork Jurors Choice Award in 2019. His first monograph, Sugarcane and Lightning, is currently available through Minor Matters Publishing. Burrell is in development on his first feature film, Cousins, which was the recipient of a 2022 SFFILM Rainin Grant.