Bermowitz graduated with a degree in art from Brooklyn College and began his artistic career doing light sculptures. In 1974 he opened a small gallery in lower Manhattan, where he started to create the "Project of Living Artists", a pluri-artistic place to develop various happenings or artistic attempts. Here, he met a jazz band called Reverend B, in which Martin Rev (Martin Reverby) played electric piano. Martin Rev would later become Alan Vega's partner in Suicide. In 1980, Alan Vega released his eponymous first solo record, which contained "Jukebox Babe", one of his best known songs, and defined the kind of rockabilly style that he would follow for some years. Later in his career he made a commercial attempt ("Just a Million Dreams"), which proved to be unsuccessful..
Vega teamed up with Martin Rev again toward the end of the 80's and released the third Suicide album, A Way of Life (1988), then met future wife and music partner Liz Lamere while piecing together sound experiments which would evolve into his fourth solo album, Deuce Avenue (1990). Deuce Avenue marked the return toward a more repetitious and electronic approach (similar to his work with Suicide) in which Vega mixed beat driven machines and effects with spoken word and free-form prose. More solo albums, Suicide performances and music collaborations followed, then in 2002 Vega constructed the exhibit "Collision Drive" which contained a series of light sculptures mixed with found art and crucifixes. 2007 saw the release of Vega's tenth solo album, Station on Blast First Records, which took five years in the making and can be considered his most politically charged and cacophonous work yet. Alan Vega still continues to perform solo and with Suicide to this day.
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