Siemens Fine Art Award, RMIT University, Melbourne, winner 2007 Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, finalist 2007 Stan and Maureen Duke, Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, finalist 2007 Metro5 Art Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, finalist 2007 Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, finalist 2006 Fletcher Jones Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Art Geelong, winner 2006 Metro5 Art Award, Metro Gallery, Melbourne, winner 2005 Siemens Fine Art Award, RMIT University, Melbourne, finalist 2004 Siemens Fine Art Award, RMIT University, Melbourne, finalist Collections Leach's work features in several collections including Artbank Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour Christ Church Grammar School, Perth Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle Peggy Scott and David Teplitzky Collection, Wellington, New Zealand RMIT University, Melbourne University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Leach's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions. 2014 Theriophily and Substance, ART14 London 2013 Careening Meteorites and the Early Mind, Future Perfect, Singapore 2013 Sam Leach, 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 We Have Never Been Modern, ARTHK11, Sullivan+Strumpf, Asia One, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2010 Present at Hand, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2010 Platonia, COMODAA, London, UK 2010 Cosmists, 24HR ART, Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin 2009 The Next Billion Years, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2009 The Margin, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne 2009 Native Dualism, Peter Walker Fine Art, Adelaide 2008 Holotypes, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne 2008 Negentrophies, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2007 Unnatural Selection, Peter Walker Fine Art, Adelaide 2007 The Spoils, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne 2006 Familie Kapitaal, Michael Carr Gallery, Sydney 2005 The Lift, Spacement, Melbourne 2005 The Longed for Departure, Bus Gallery, Melbourne Group exhibitions Leach's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions. 2015 10th Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2014 Conquest of Space, COFA Galleries, Sydney, curated by Dr. Andrew Frost 2014 Art Basel Hong Kong, Sullivan+Strumpf, Hong Kong 2014 The Medium is the Message, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Victoria 2014 SSFA14, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney 2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of