About
California native Greg Breda is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Navigating the spaces between figuration and abstraction, light and shadow, Breda’s mark making employs distinctively pronounced and painterly brushstrokes to explore the complexities, resilience, strength, and beauty of the human spirit.
Sourcing media, memory, and spiritual identity, he draws upon his imagination to construct realistic central themes of quiet contemplation that consider the eternal “internal” that impact the external world, set against backgrounds that shift between abstraction, minimalism, and lushly rendered landscapes. Often referencing ancient text, nature, and the language of flowers, he ascribes metaphor and symbolism with the intention of excavating an overstanding of our matrix of life. The work is focused on discovering equilibrium between the physical and spiritual worlds.
Through his work, Breda aims to inspire the viewer to envision being elevated, illuminated, and expansive.
VITAE
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024 Where I Am Found, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Frieze Los Angeles 2023, Patron Gallery solo presentation, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Still, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Can We Speak In Flowers, Greg Breda & Bethany Collins, Art Basil Miami Beach, Patron Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Glimmers Through Dark Matter, Greg Breda | Myra Greene, Patron Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Hei, Patron Gallery, 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-Kone Collection, The African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Aspen Art Fair, Aspen, CO
It Never Entered My Mind, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Double ID From CCH Pounder-Kone’ Collection, The Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2023 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Petrucci Family Foundation presents Tribeca Showcase, NYC, NY
Diaspora Stories: Selections from the CCH Pounder Collection, Du Sable, Chicago, IL
2022 Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami, FL
ADAA: The Art Show 2022 , NYC, NY
We Are Us: The Human Condition, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN
Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
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
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Tx