Greg Breda is a self-taught painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. Rendering his figures with lush brushstrokes on vellum, and more recently on silken polyester, Breda’s compositions emanate with light. In lush, verdant settings, the figures appear in harmony with the natural world around them, Breda’s subjects are depicted in states of thoughtful contemplation or meditation, as if pondering truths greater than themselves.Timeless and removed from individual identity or context, the intimately cropped figures are not portraits but harbingers of the potentiality of quietude. 

CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1959, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Where I am found, PATRON, Chicago, IL 

2021
Still, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2019
Glimmers Through Dark Matter, PATRON, New York, NY

2018
Hei, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2015
East + West: Studies On Paper By Francks Deceus & Greg Breda, Band Of Vices, Los Angeles, CA

2006
Seed, Tilford Art Group, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 
Shared Vision: Portraits from the CCH Pounder - Koné Collection, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 
It Never Entered My Mind, Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, CA

2023
Diaspora Stories: Selections from the CCH Pounder Collection, Du Sable, Chicago, IL 

2022
We Are Us: The Human Condition, The Citadel, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN

2021
Black American Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art,Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

2020
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
QUEEN: From the Collection of CCH Pounder, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI

2019
Punch LA, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffery Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2018
QUEEN: From the Collection of CCH Pounder, Xavier University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2017
Face To Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2014
Hard: Politics, Religion, and Personal Preference (the private collection of CCH Pounder), Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angeles, Ca.

2008
A Collaboration with Tilford Art Group & Pounder Kone, Pounder Kone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA

2006
House Proud: The Artist Salon, Pounder Kone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Julia Halperin, “Inside the Collections of Three San Franciscans Who Helped Build the City’s Tight-Knit Art Scene,” CULTURED Magazine, January 12

2023
Annabel Keenan, “7 Artists Making Waves in Frieze LA’s Focus Section,” CULTURED Magazine, February 17
Steven Vargas, “So much art, so little time. Here’s your guide to help plan Frieze week,” Los Angeles Times, February 8
Jacob Urist, “The Breakout Artists That Stole the Show at Frieze LA,” CULTURED Magazine, February 20
Paul Laster, “What Sold at Frieze Los Angeles 2023,” Artsy, February 20
Essence Harden, “Why Two Los Angeles Collectors Don’t Rank Their Visitors or Artworks,” Frieze, February 10

2022
Colony Little, “‘It’s just people living their lives’: Painter Greg Breda captures moments of quiet transformation in Black cinema,” The Art Newspaper, January 14
“10 Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles 2023,” Frieze, December 15
Kerry Cardoza, “Art Top 5: February 2022,” Newcity Art, January 28
Victoria L. Valentine, “On View: See Images From ‘Greg Breda: Still’ at Patron Gallery in Chicago, Exhibition Pays Tribute to Sidney Poitier and Resilient Characters in Black Cinema,” Culture Type, January 28
Katy Cowman, “Paintings by Greg Breda that reference pivotal moments for black characters in classic films,” Creative Boom, January 28
Kerry Cardoza, “Still Lives: A Review of Greg Breda at Patron,” Newcity Art, February 7

2021
Nakia Hicks, “These 3 portrait painters offer a pensive look at the importance of representation,” EDITION, November 16
Navy Gilson, “Columbus Museum of Art’s ‘Present Generations’ shines spotlight on 27 living artists,” The Columbus Dispatch, July 25

2020
“5 Emerging Black Artists to Collect Now,” Widewalls, August 22
“AN12: 12 Standout Emerging Artists,” ARTNOIR, December

2018
Chris Miller, “Inner Light and Outer Beauty, Greg Breda at Patron Gallery,” Newcity Art, August 22
Shantay Robinson, “10 Emerging Black Male Artists to Collect,” Black Art in America, June 19

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY