Was born in Jacksonville, AL in 1978. She received a BA in Studio Art from the Jacksonville State University, and a MFA in Studio Art/ Installation from the Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL in 1990. Braswell has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA. in 1992 the Oak Ridge Art Center / Museum of Fine Arts; Oak Ridge, TN and the Limner Gallery, in New York in 1993, Raw Space, A.R.C. Gallery in Chicago in 1996 and recently at the Gallery One 2 One. Paula Braswell has participated in group shows mainly throughout the East coast of the United States and in Ontario, Canada where she recently took part in the exhibit Lamentable Expedients";4th Dimension; The Persona Propeller Curated Show at Propeller Gallery in Toronto; and Paula Braswell & Irene Packer, "Installations & Paintings at the Propeller Center for the Visual Arts also in Toronto.

Braswell has also exhibited her work at the Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee Florida and the River Gallery in Toronto, Canada in 1998; The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC in 1997, the Museurn of Art in Austin TX and the National Juried Exhibition of the Women's Caucus for Art, Chinese Culture Institute, Boston, MA in 1996.

Braswell's awards include fellowships and grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts, Who's Who in the World, Millennium edition of Marquis Who's Who, an honorable mention at the, Combined Talents exhibit of The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL in 1995, a Regional Artists Projects Grant funded through the National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation in 1991; and a teaching fellowship from the Florida State University; Tallahassee, FL in 1990 among others. Braswell's work has been reviewed in different publications and the artist has been interviewed for the Arts & Entertainment section of the Toronto Star, CH RY, York University Radio Station, CIUT, University of Toronto Radio Station and Global TV Video an interview related to the exhibit "Landscapes: An Exhibition of Sculpture" at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC.