Born Toronto, 1966
AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1989
2005Angela Leach Shimmy, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Angela Leach Skip, Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario
Angela Leach Paintings, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
2004
Angela Leach Shimmy, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
New Works, State Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Angela Leach Paintings, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Abstract Repeat Series – New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2003
Angela Leach Shimmy, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2001
New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1999
Abstract Repeat – New Paintings, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2005You Don’t Want To Miss That Shit, Contemporary Painting at the Gladstone, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Dimensionality, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto
The Transformative Power of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Informal Ideas 04:05, (please press landscape), Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
Illusion, Halde Galerie, Widen, Switzerland
Big Show, 1139 College Street, Toronto
2004
Representing Abstraction – paintings from the Hart House permanent collection, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto
Summer Showcase No. 1, State Gallery, Vancouver
Vivid, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
2003
The Big Abstract Show, The Painting Center, New York, New York
Hard Curves – Soft Points, State Gallery, Vancouver
Technicolour, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2000
Visual Stimulants, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1999
Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
1998
Layers, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
1997
Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant, Toronto
1996
Perspective 96, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Fast, Painting Disorders Collective, Toronto
2005
Julia Dault, “Avenue at the Galleries”, National Post (October 6)
Gary Michael Dault, “Journey through the Wall and Back Again”, The Globe and Mail (Sept. 17)
R M Vaughan, “Big Picture - op-art redux”, National Post, (September 17)
Susanna Vanek, “Logik und Intersität der Farben”, Freiamt Aargauer Zeitung (June 2)
Matthew Van Dongen, “It’s art that can make you sick”, St. Catharines Standard (December 30)
2004
Corinna Ghaznavi, “Rewind”, Canadian Art (Summer)
Peter Godard, “Galleries awash in winter abstractions”, Toronto Star (February 26)
Betty Ann Jordan, “February at a Glance”, Toronto Life (February)
Adam McDowell, “Toronto artist is turning heads”, Toronto Observer (February 26)
2003
Gilbert Bouchard, “New techniques yield new art”, Edmonton Journal (March 28)
Julia Dault, “Illusions to caress the eyes”, National Post (October 23)
2001
Deirdre Hanna, “Leach’s Lines”, Now Magazine (May 17)
Joanne Huffa, “Arts: Best Bet”, Eye (May 17)
2000
Elee Kraljii Gardiner, “Editor’s Choice”, Vancouver Magazine (September)
1999
Gary Michael Dault, “Gallery Going”, The Globe and Mail (September 4)
Betty Ann Jordan, “Adventures in Art”, Where Toronto (September)
1997
John Armstrong, “Disorderly Conduit”, Border Crossings (Volume 16, #2)
John Bentley Mays, “Unnatural art beats tattoo on the soul”, The Globe and Mail (July 12)
Catherine Osborne, “Perspective 96”, Parachute (#87)
1996
Blake Gopnik, “Young Painters Look Backward”, The Globe and Mail (November 23)
2005
Emily Falvey and Gordon Hatt, Angela Leach Paintings, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2004
Carol Podedworny and Virginia M. Eichhorn, Vivd, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Sarah Stanners, Representing Abstraction – paintings from the Hart House permanent collection exhibition folio, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2000
Keith Wallace, Visual Stimulants, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1999
Ihor Holubizky, Joseph R. Wolin, David Moos, Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
1997
Philip Monk, Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant, Toronto
1996
Jessica Bradley, Perspective 96, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
