Where I am found
Sep 14 – Nov 2, 2024
Aspen Art Fair
Jul 29 – Aug 2, 2024
Hotel Jerome
It Never Entered My Mind
May 18 – Jul 27, 2024
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Dec 6–10, 2023
Miami Beach Convention Center
Frieze LA 2023
Feb 16–19, 2023
Santa Monica Airport at The Barker Hanger
Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
Nov 30 – Dec 3, 2022
Miami Beach Convention Center
ADAA 2022
Nov 3–6, 2022
Park Avenue Armory
We Are Us: The Human Condition
Oct 29, 2022 – Feb 24, 2023
Lubeznik Center for the Arts
Felix Art Fair 2022
Feb 17–20, 2022
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Still
Dec 11, 2021 – Feb 26, 2022
Columbus Museum of Art’s ‘Present Generations’ shines spotlight on 27 living artists
Jul 26, 2021
Columbus Museum of Art
Art Basel Miami Beach | Can we speak in flowers
Dec 2–20, 2020
Felix Art Fair 2020
Feb 13–16, 2020
The Hollywood Roosevelt
Punch
Jun 29 – Aug 17, 2019
Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary
Mar 8 – Aug 25, 2019
California African American Museum
Glimmers Through Dark Matter
Mar 7–10, 2019
PATRON Projects I New York 213 Bowery
Hei
Jul 14 – Aug 26, 2018
The Breakout Artists That Stole the Show at Frieze LA
Cultured
Feb 20, 2023
Feb 20, 2023
Why Two Los Angeles Collectors Don’t Rank Their Visitors or Artworks
Frieze
Feb 10, 2023
Feb 10, 2023
7 Artists Making Waves in Frieze LA’s Focus Section
Cultured
Feb 17, 2023
Feb 17, 2023
10 Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze Los Angeles 2023
Frieze
Dec 15, 2022
Dec 15, 2022
5 Emerging Black Artists to Collect Now
Widewalls
Aug 22, 2020
Aug 22, 2020
Paintings by Greg Breda that reference pivotal moments for black characters in classic films
Creative Boom
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
AN12: 12 Standout Emerging Artists
ARTNOIR
Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020
Inner Light and Outer Beauty, Greg Breda at Patron Gallery
Newcity
Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018
“It’s just people living their lives": Painter Greg Breda captures moments of quiet transformation in Black cinema
The Art Newspaper
Jan 14, 2022
Jan 14, 2022
The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Los Angeles 2023
Artsy
Feb 17, 2023
Feb 17, 2023
Art Top 5: February 2022
Newcity Art
Jan 28, 2022
Jan 28, 2022
Still Lives: A Review of Greg Breda at Patron
Newcity Art
Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
Bold Brushstrokes Overlap in Greg Breda’s Contemplative Portraits
Colossal
Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024
10 Emerging Black Male Artists to Collect
Black Art in America
Jun 19, 2018
Jun 19, 2018
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
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