Cv/bio
Greig Leach's work has been widely collected through the United States, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Ethyl Corporation, Phillip Morris, Chubb Insurance and the Progressive Companies. He has exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1708 Gallery both in Richmond, VA, Jasper Center for the Arts in Jasper, IN, the Hoyt Center for Arts and Education in New Castle,PA and the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum in LaGrange, GA to site just a few venues. He has been a Visiting Artist to the American Academy in Rome, Italy and an Artist-in-Residence to Columbus State University Corn Center for the Visual Arts. He has served as an Artist-in-Residence for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Webb School in Knoxville, TN. He is a past Fellow of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His work graces many private homes, corporate offices and restaurants bringing joy, color and beauty to all who see his creations. His cycling art grows out of a passion for the sport that includes racing as an amateur and the on-going joy of a long day out on the bike. From 2018 until 2024, NBC has aired time-lapse videos of his cycling watercolors during their broadcast of the Tour de France. You will find two different books offer here of his cycling art. Leach's art education has been continually developed in the studio with formal studies at the Corcoran Museum's School of Art in Washington, DC, Montgomery College in Rockville, MD and Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, He and his wife, actor/writer Bridget Gethins share their turn of the century home in Richmond with two dogs and one formerly ferral cat, all mutts and all rescued from the streets. Their two sons, Austin and Kerrigan, have moved on, both having lived in New York City but now make their homes in Richmond, VA along with their spouses and daughters of their own.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2026 Past in the Present Will Be the Future, Arts & Education at the Hoyt, New Castle, PA
I Dissent, Black Iris, Richmond, VA
2024 Behind Bars, BRG Gallery, Richmond, VA
Behind Bars, Again, BRG Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022 20/20, Kyo Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2020 20/20, TheatreArt Galleries, Hill Point, NC
2015 Art of Cycling, Nest Gallery, Richmond,VA
Art of Cycling, Virginia Museum of Sport, Suffolk, VA
2012 Allegheny Center for theArts, NarrativeAbstraction, Clifton Forge, VA 2011 Artworks, Trying to Figure It Out, Richmond, VA
2009 9WG Studios, Taking It to the Streets, Richmond, VA
2008 Imagine Foundation, Greig Leach: An American Expressionist, Jacksonville, IL CulturalArts Center of Glen Allen, Garden Colors, Glen Allen, VA
2007 Artworks, Matters of the Heart. Richmond, VA
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Stations of the Cross, Richmond, VA 2006 Lexington Art League, AVisual Life, Lexington, KY
Imagine Foundation, AVisual Life, Jacksonville. IL
2005 JasperArt Center, The Color of People, Cakes and God, Jasper IN Allegheny Center for theArts, Urban Colors, Clifton Forge, VA
2004 Chattahoochee Valley Museum of FineArt, It Figures: Images of Life and Food, La Grange, GA
2003 Gallery 5800, The Continental Tourist, Richmond, VA
2002 Allegheny Center for theArts, Parking Lot Polka, Clifton Forge, VA 1999 Gallery 5800, Going Places, Richmond, VA
1998 1708 Gallery, What I Did Last Summer, Richmond, VA 1997 Gallery 5800, Treat Yourself, Richmond, VA
1995 Maybe Gallery, Color as Forces, Richmond, VA Suitable for Framing, New Works, Richmond, VA
1992 Suitable for Framing, New Works, Richmond, VA
1991 Peninsula FineArts Center, Greig Leach at Work, Newport News, VA 1990 William Engle Gallery, Nothing Happened on Memorial Day, Again,
Indianapolis, IN
Cudahy's, An American Expressionist, Richmond, VA 1989 1708 Gallery, Dinner at Our House, Richmond, VA 1988 Cudahy's, Coming Off the Wall, Richmond, VA
1987 Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
1986 Second Street Gallery, Recent Works on Paper, Charlottesville, VA Cudahy's, Recent Works on Paper, Richmond, VA
1984 Cudahy's, New Works, Richmond, VA
1983 Visions, They Didn't Come to Dance, Richmond, VA
Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond, A Modern Expressionist, Richmond, VA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 250 Years of Expression: Freedom, Dissent, and the American Voice, Artspace, Richmond, VA, 2nd Place
2025 Art with a Message, Orange County Center for Commentary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Homage, Gallery 311, Raleigh, NC
Virginia Stories, Library of Virginia, Richmond,VA
2022 Portrayed, d’Art, Portsmouth, VA – Two Honorable Mention Awards
2021 Courage in Color, Gallery Underground, Pentagon City, VA Transport, UrbanArts Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Game On!, Drury College, Springfield, MO
2019 Craft Revolution, Orange County Center for ContemporaryArt, SantaAna, CA Signs of Peace, Maritime Garage Gallery, Norwich, CT
2015 Two Wheel Travel, UNOS Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 The Art of Political Speech, Penisula FineArts Center, Newport News, VA
2010 The Figure as Narrative: Compelling Allusions, Columbus State University, Corn Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, GA
2007 Variations: 14 VirginiaArtists, Red Door Gallery, Richmond, VA 2004 Open Spectrum, Vermont Union College, Montpelier, VT
1997 11th Annual Humor Show, Zenith Gallery, Washington, D.C.
15-17 Wake Exhibition, Coincidence Gallery, Richmond, VA
1994 Falk Gallery, Christopher Newport University, PublicArt Indoors, Newport News, VA
1990 Flight 1708, Richmond International Airport, Richmond, VA 1989 Plaides Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Peninsula FineArts Center, Juried Exhibition, Chairman's Award, Newport News, VA
1988 The Figure, Peninsula FineArts Center, Newport News, VA
1987 Perpetual Motion, Strathmore Hall Center for theArts, Bethesda, MD NewArt Examined, Atrium Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Fictitious Narrative, Virginia Beach Center for theArts, Va. Beach, VA 1986 Lauri Luck Crow, Wolfgang Jasper, Greig Leach, Isis, Richmond, VA
1985 Extremely Current, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
1984 Members Show, 1708 Gallery, New Richmond, VA
Richmond Arts Council, Tredegar Iron Works Exhibition II, Richmond, VA Made in Virginia, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
1983 Still Life, Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1982 The ExpressiveAnecdote: Directions In FigurativeArt, The Virginia Museum of FineArts, Richmond, VA
Books:
2014 Book du Tour: Art of the 101st Tour de France, Milestone Publishing
2015 Art of Cycling: Richmond 2015 UCI Road World Championships, Milestone Publishing
Grants, Awards, Gallery Affiliation, and Residencies:
2026-present Artist Member, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA
2012-13 Artist-in-Education, Richmond City Public Schools, Richmond, VA
2010 Visiting Artist to Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2009 Visiting Artist to theAmericanAcademy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2009-2023 SponsoredArtist, Richeson and Company, Shiva Paintstiks, Madison, WI 2005 Artist-in-Education, Covington High School., Covington, VA
2001-15 Artist-in-Education Roster, Virginia Commission for theArts, Richmond, VA 2004 Visiting Artist, Webb School, Knoxville, TN
2001-02 Artist-in-Education, Allegheny High School, Clifton Forge, VA
2000-03 Artist-in-Residence, Virginia Museum of FineArts, Richmond, VA
1991 Finalist, Absolut USA, New York, NY
1987 Chairman's Award, Juried Exhibition, Peninsula FineArts Center, Newport News, VA
1986-87 ProfessionalArtist Fellowship, Virginia Museum of FineArts, Richmond, VA 1985-87 Artist-in-Residence, Virginia Museum of FineArts, Richmond, VA
1984-90 Artist Member, President 1988-89, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Selected Collections:
Best Products Foundation, Richmond, VA (Sydney and Frances Lewis) Chubb Group Inc., New York, NY
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY
CSX Corporation, Richmond, VA (Ray Szabo/PeteAnderson)
Doug Curtler, Richmond, VA
Ken White & Carl Outen, Afton, VA
New Market Corporation (Ethyl Corporation), Richmond, VA
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Gottwald, Richmond, VA
Philip Morris Corporation, Richmond, VA
William Morris Agency, New York, NYVirginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA