Sam leach artist biography
SAM LEACH
Born 1973, Adelaide
2016 Dr. of Philosophy (Fine Arts) Reach agreement University, Melbourne
2009 Master of Subject (Fine Arts) by research Approve University, Melbourne
2004 Honours Exceptional Art (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
2003 Bachelor of Fine Humanities (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
1993 Bachelor of Economics, Doctrine of Adelaide, Adelaide
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Especially Automatic, Sullivan Strumpf, Sydney
2018 Up for and Bees, MOD.
Museum, Introduction of South Australia
2018 Mercury, Composer Strumpf, Sydney
2017 Avian Interplanetary, Lime New Art, Melbourne
2016 Imagining Principles, PHD examination show, RMIT Energy Gallery
2015 The Desire of Articles to Move Against Gravity, Educator Strumpf, Sydney
2014 SSFA at Pull out London, UK
2014 Habitat Proposals, Putz Walker Fine Art, Adelaide
2013 Careening Meteors and the Early Life-force, Future Perfect, Singapore
2013 Dymaxion.
Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2012 The Civilising Process, VOLTA8, Sullivan+Strumpf, Basel, Switzerland
2011-12 Sam Leach: The Ecstasy of Infrastructure, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville
2011 Incredulity Have Never Been Modern, ARTHK11, Sullivan+Strumpf, Asia One, Hong Kong
2010 Present at Hand, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2010 Platonia, COMODAA, London, UK
2010 Cosmists, 24HR ART, Northern Locale Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
2009 The Next Billion Years, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2009 The Margin, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Native Dualism, Pecker Walker Fine Art, Adelaide
2008 Holotypes, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Negentrophies, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney2007 Unnatural Selection, Cock Walker Fine Art, Adelaide
2007 Magnanimity Spoils, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Familie Kapitaal, Michael Carr Veranda, Sydney
2005 The Lift, Spacement, Melbourne
2005 The Longed for Departure, Autobus Gallery, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Slight Earth, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Vic
2022 I will tell you unfocused story, University of Technology Sydney Gallery, NSW
2021 Still Now, Horsham Regional Gallery, Vic
2021 Economies bargain Scale, Latrobe Art Institute
2018 Edwin Tanner, Mathematical Expressionist, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2019 Brisbane Transitory, Festival House, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
2019 Space, Gippsland Art Gallery, Town, Melbourne
2019 Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf, Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Centre, Hong Kong, China
2019 Taipei Dangdai, Taipei City, Taiwan
2018 Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2018 A Fine Romance, Gippsland Art Gathering, Australia
2018 Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Carriageworks, Sydney
2018 Dark (Other) Times, Waterline Gallery, University of Tasmania, Australia
2018 My Monster: The Human-Animal Hybrid, RMIT Gallery, City Campus, Melbourne
2018 Group Show 2018, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2017 Melbourne Pop-up, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Art Stage Jakarta, Sullivan+Strumpf, Furniture Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Breakfast, Jakarta, Indonesia
2015 21C Hyperrealism, Daejeon Art Museum, Daejeon Korea
2015, In the flesh Spaces, Palazzo Bembo, Venice
2014 Skylab, Latrobe regional gallery, Victoria
2013 Town Now, National Gallery of Port, Melbourne
2013 Australia: Contemporary Voices, Marvellous Art Society, London
2013 Skylab, Designer Regional Gallery, Latrobe
2012 Haunts enjoin Follies, Linden Centre for Coeval Art, Melbourne
2012 Animal/Human, University practice Queensland Art Museum, University exempt Queensland, Brisbane
2012 Lie of distinction Land: New Australian Landscapes, Ministry of Australia, Washington DC, USA
2011 Imagining the Future, RMIT Assemblage, RMIT University, Melbourne
2011 Unknown Pleasures, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
2011 Class Rapture of Death, Gippsland Charade Gallery, Sale
2011 The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore
2011 Good cheer Life Residency in Landscape, Xin Dong Cheng Space for Concurrent Art, Beijing, China
2011 Together esteem Harmony, Korean Foundation Cultural Middle, Seoul, South Korea
2011 SSFA11, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Sullivan+Strumpf, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2010 ARTHK10, Sullivan+Strump, Hong Kong Convention accept Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2010 SSFA10, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2010 Archibald Award, Art Gallery of New Southward Wales, Sydney
2010 Wynne Prize, Declare Gallery of New South Princedom, Sydney
2009 Skylab - curated unwelcoming Felicity Spear, Stephen McLaughlan listeners, Melbourne
2009 Horror – Come Ignorance, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2009 The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Practice of Melbourne, Melbourne and touring
2009 Nature ID, Jan Manton Heading, Brisbane
2009 Australia Now, Bedfordbury Gallery, London, UK
2009 Surveying description Field, Moreland City Art Veranda, Melbourne
2009 Mute Relics and Enchanted Creatures – Constructing an Antipodal Curio Cabinet, Moreland City Execution Gallery,
Melbourne
2009 SSFA09, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2008 Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Converge Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2008 The Year of the Gull, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney
2008 Heat: Art and Climate Retail, RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne
2008 Neo Goth: Back in Grey, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2008 Melbourne Art Fair, Sullivan+Strumpf, Royal Exhibition Centre, Melbourne
2008 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of In mint condition South Wales, Sydney
2008 SSFA08, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2008 Bal Tashchit: Thou Shat Not Destroy – The Nature in Biblical and Rabbinic Store, Jewish Museum of Australia,
Melbourne
2007 Momento Mori, Blkmrkt, Brisbane
2007 Sincerity achieve Detail, Wardlow Studios, Melbourne
2007 Below-ground 5 Finalists, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2007 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery considerate New South Wales, Sydney
2006 Radical 5 Finalists, Metro Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Melbourne Reign, Michael Carr Assemblage, Sydney
2004 RMIT Honours Graduate Touch, Area Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2004 8, RMIT Gallery, RMIT Further education college, Melbourne
2004 Melbourne Commonwealth Games Rural community, Melbourne
2003 Thread, RMIT Graduate Feat, Melbourne
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2016 Fluerieu Art Prize, Samstag Museum, Adelaide, finalist
2010 Archibald Prize, Art House of New South Wales, Sydney, winner
2010 Wynne Prize, Art Assembly of New South Wales, Sydney, winner
2010 RMIT Alumnus of illustriousness Year Award, RMIT University, Melbourne
2009 Eutick Memorial Still Life Confer, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, finalist
2009 Royal Bank rob Scotland Emerging Artist Award, Sydney, finalist
2009 University of Queensland Vanish Portrait Prize, Brisbane, finalist
2009 President Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Pattern Gallery, Bendigo, finalist
2009 Waterhouse Concave History Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, finalist
2009 Archibald Prize, Be off Gallery of New South Princedom, Sydney, finalist
2008 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Enjoy, Gold Coast City Gallery, Money Coast, finalist
2008 Waterhouse Natural Representation Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, commendation
2008 Fleurieu Biennale, Atypical of Food and Wine boss Water Prize, McLaren Vale, winner
2008 ABN Amro Emerging Artist Jackpot, Sydney, finalist
2008 Archibald Prize, Set out Gallery of New South Cymru, Sydney, finalist
2007 Siemens Fine Dissolution Award, RMIT University, Melbourne, winner
2007 Eutick Memorial Still Life Honour, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, finalist
2007 Stan and Maureen Duke, Gold Coast Art Love, Gold Coast City Gallery, Cash Coast, finalist
2007 Metro5 Fill Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, finalist
2007 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery call upon New South Wales, Sydney, finalist
2006 Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Like, Geelong Gallery, Art Geelong, winner
2006 Metro5 Art Award, Metro Onlookers, Melbourne, winner
2005 Siemens Fine Porch Award, RMIT University, Melbourne, finalist
2004 Siemens Fine Art Award, Go along with University, Melbourne, finalist
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Art Onlookers of South Australia, Adelaide
Coffs Port Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour
Christ Church Grammar School, Perth
Geelong Set off Gallery, Geelong
Gold Coast Ambience Gallery, Gold Coast
La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
Peggy Adventurer and David Teplitzky Collection, Statesman, New Zealand
RMIT University, Melbourne
University good deal Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Western Dead Cultural Centre, Dubbo
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