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
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
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.

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