Adam Leech
Adam Leech
Adam Leech

Curriculum vitae

Brussels, Belgium

Education

  • 2000

    MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • 1998

    Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • 1996

    BFA, Honors and Distinction, University of Iowa

Residencies

  • 2025–2026

    RADAR, Mechelen, Belgium

  • 2020–2021

    S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium

  • 2005–2007

    H.I.S.K., Two-year residency, Antwerp, Belgium

  • 2000–2002

    Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • 2000

    Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado

Collaborations

  • Steven Laureys, PhD, Neuroscientist, University of Liège
  • David Chalmers, PhD, Philosophy and Neural Science, New York University
  • Agnes Moors, PhD, Psychology of Emotion, University of Leuven
  • David Morales, PhD candidate, neuroscience and psychology of pain, VUB
  • A Flemish shaman, Specializing in the psychedelic aspects of mind and brain

Teaching and public lectures

  • H.I.S.K., Gent
  • K.A.S.K., Gent
  • Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerpen
  • Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen
  • S.M.A.K., Gent

Awards

  • German Film Critics Association Award, KunstFilmBiennale, Köln
  • Paula Patton Graham Scholarship for the Arts
  • SAIC Grant
  • SAIC Anderson Ranch Scholarship

Selected exhibitions

  • 2026

    • Art Brussels, with Emergent Gallery
    • Emergent Gallery Solo Zingen!!, Veurne, Belgium

  • 2025

    • S.M.A.K., Painting after painting: Contemporary Painting in Belgium, Gent, Belgium, 4 April to 2 November 2025
    • RADAR, Kunsthal Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium, 14 to 27 April 2025

  • 2024

    • Harlan Levey Projects

  • 2023

    • Emergent Gallery, 10 jaar Emergent, Veurne, Belgium

  • 2022

    • Harlan Levey Projects, Triangle Knokke, Knokke, Belgium
    • H.I.S.K. Alumni Show, What’s in an Artwork?, Brussels, Belgium
    • Feest van de Filosofie, Philosophy Festival, Leuven, Belgium
    • WhiteHouse Gallery, Lovenjoel, Belgium
    • Emergent Gallery, Veurne, Belgium

  • 2021

    • S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Solo Gent, Belgium

  • 2019

    • WhiteHouse Gallery Solo Lovenjoel, Belgium

  • 2018

    • Emergent Gallery, Drie solo’s: Franz Anaïs, Cathérine Claeyé, Adam Leech, curated by Frank Maes, Veurne, Belgium

  • 2017

    • S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Uit de Collectie, 60 jaar Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
    • Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium

  • 2015

    • Emergent Gallery, Veurne, Belgium

  • 2013

    • Pianofabriek, Shame! (Hide and Show), curated by Ria Van Landeghem, ERROR ONE, Brussels, Belgium

  • 2012

    • Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens and Zebrastraat, Introduction to Psychology, curated by Joost Declercq, Gent, Belgium
    • ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, with Hopstreet Gallery, Berlin, Germany
    • Molens van Orshoven, Leuven, Belgium

  • 2011

    • Hoet-Bekaert Gallery, Gent, Belgium
    • Von Cirne Galerie, Niederzier, Germany

  • 2010

    • Netwerk Cultural Center, Aalst, Belgium
    • National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • The Armory Show, New York
    • Actuele Kunst, Enschede, The Netherlands

  • 2009

    • Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
    • Hoet-Bekaert Gallery, Gent, Belgium

  • 2008

    • Manifesta 7, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
    • Ariane de Rothschild Prize, Brussels, Belgium

  • 2007

    • S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, M for M, group show, Gent, Belgium

Publications

  • De Morgen, 26 July 2021, Een gids voor de geest: de esthetische ervaring onderzocht, by Sofie Van Hyfte
  • <H>ART, 2019, Adam Leech en Joke Raes in White House Gallery, by Christine Vuegen
  • Flash Art no. 269, November–December 2009, Brand New
  • Interview between Adam Leech and Michael Polsinelli
  • Trends/Tendances no. 49, People: Lernout & Hauspie and video art, by Robert Van Apeldoorn
  • <H>ART #45, 26 December 2008, Ariane de Rothschild prijs in Tour en Taxis: Schilderkunst is elastisch, by Christine Vuegen
  • <H>ART #46, 22 January 2009, Voer voor taalfilosofen: nieuw werk van Adam Leech in Maison Grégoire, by Sam Steverlynck
  • <H>ART #48, 5 March 2009, Adam Leech in Hoet-Bekaert Galerie, by Mark Ruyters
  • Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Annual 07, Capricious connections between clandestineness and visibility, Belgium, p. 204
  • S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, 2007, M for M
  • ConneXions, 2006, Leere X Vision
  • Art Lies, Contemporary Art Quarterly, issue 44, 2004, Adam Leech, Melhuis, Caveh Zahedi: Uncommon Truths. Triangle Project Space, by Jennifer Day