Adriana Barreto paints and draws, creates installations, performances, videos, and photography. She has exhibited in the Museu de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte; Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador; Brazilian American Cultural Institute, Washington; Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento Económico, Washington; and Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro. In 2012, she presented the exhibition Agora Sim in Museu das Comunicações, Lisboa, within the context of the cultural program Portugal Brasil Agora, and the performance O que pode um corpo, at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art. She was represented in the collective show Place of Residence, curated by Alfons Hug in Shanghai.