Gregory Edwards was born in 1948 in Dayton, Ohio. He attended the California Institute of the Arts from 1971 to 1973 and later studied at the Art Institute of San Francisco from 1973 to 1974. Greg's abstract paintings include imagery based on African symbols. He creates his own body of symbolism; colors and lines represent the spirit of his loved ones and the stories of people who surround the artist's life. Edwards correlates the sense of depth his paintings have with the depth of a human being, their emotion and life.

Edwards has held solo and group exhibitions at the Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA; Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA; Pomona College, Claremont, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK; Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; Steirischer Herbst, Weiz, Austria; Hotel La Fenice et Des Artistes, Venice, Italy; and more.

Edwards’s works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; Chase Manhattan Bank, NY; and numerous private collections including the estate of Miles Davis, Ann Hatch, Jack and Joan Quinn, and Elyse and Stanley Grinstein, among many others. Edwards currently lives and works in Oakland, California.