Geraldine O'Reilly

Geraldine O’Reilly is a Visual Artist and Printmaker. She is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with a degree in honours degree in Fine Art Painting (1983). Awarded a Fulbright scholarship to New York in 1989 to research Irish emigration to America for her exhibition JOURNAL. She has had many solo exhibitions and shown in selected group exhibitions throughout Ireland, America, Australia, France, Belgium, Sweden, England and Poland. A former board member and chairperson of Graphic Studio Dublin. In 2004 she was elected to AOSDANA for her contribution to the arts in Ireland. Her artwork is held in many public and private collections such as National Gallery of Ireland, Chester Beatty Library and Museum, IMMA, Office of Public Works, University of Tasmania, An Gorta Mor/The Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University USA, Boston College. She has held a number of important residencies such as Banff Centre for the Creative Arts, Canada, McDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, University of Tasmania, Australia.