Paula Swaydan Grebel

Paula Swaydan Grebel is an award winning artist who translates the color of the studio still life, landscapes, and figures using bold loose images. She has been the recipient of awards both for plein air and still life paintings. Her work is in the collection of the Cedarburg Art Museum, corporations and private collections
throughout the US and Internationally. Swaydan Grebel has studied in Wisconsin, California, and Philadelphia, with a BFA from California State University Long Beach. Swaydan Grebel is also a long-term instructor at multiple venues in the Midwest and West Coast.

1981 BFA from California State University Long Beach
2008-2011 CE in Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Independent studies MI, PA

SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 - 2022 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2014 Delafield Arts Center, Delafield, WI
2013 Tory Folliard, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Mr. Helsinki, Fish Creek, WI
2013 Frank Juarez Contemporary Gallery, WI
2013, Chez Cheryl, Baileys Harbor, WI
2012 Miller Art Muesum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2011 Tory Folliard, Milwaukee, WI
2011 Woodwalk Gallery, Door County, WI
2010 Tory Folliard, Milwaukee, WI
2010 Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2009 Tory Folliard, Milwaukee, WI
2009 The Art Bar, Milwaukee, WI
2007 Brick Gallery, Clarksdale, MS
2006 Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
2006 Peninsula Art School, Fish Creek, WI
2006 Gallery HB, Huntington Beach, CA
2005 Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
2004 Art Escape Gallery, Thiensville, WI
2004 Brestler Eitel, Milwaukee, WI
2003 Two Fish Gallery, Elkhart Lake, WI
2001 The Foyer Gallery, Wichita, KS
2001 Gleischman Sumner Company, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION and ACTIVITIES
2013 First Place “Paint the Town”, Plymouth WI
2009 Plein Air Invitational, Door County, WI
2006 “Oil Painters of America”, Plymouth Art Center, WI
2005 Best of Show, Cedarburg Plein Air Contest, Cedarburg, WI
2004 Best of Sho...