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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