Leah Oates has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Oates has had solo shows in Toronto at Black Cat Artspace and in the New York City area at Susan Eley Fine Art, The Central Park Arsenal Gallery, the Center for Book Arts, Real Art Ways, the Brooklyn Public Library and at the MTA Arts & Design Lightbox Project. Oates was in group shows in Toronto at John B. Aird Gallery, Propeller Art Gallery, Wychwood Barns, and Papermill Gallery.