Education

1992 MFA Brooklyn College, NY

1978 B.Ed., Special Art Diploma, St. Patrick's College, N.U.I.

One Person Exhibitions

2022 High Line Nine,George Billis Gallery, 607 West 27th St, New York, NY 10001

2021 George Billis Gallery,166 Main St, Westport CT 06880

2019 National Arts Club, Trask Gallery, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003

2017 Gowannus Souvenir, 567 Union St, Brooklyn, NY 11215

2015 George Billis Gallery, 525 West 26th St, New York, NY 10001

2013 George Billis Gallery, 521 West 26th St, B1, New York, NY 10001

2011 George Billis Gallery, 521 West 26th St, B1, New York, NY 10001

2009 George Billis Gallery, "Collages" 555 West 25th St., New York, NY 10001

2009 Armstrong Hopkins Center for the Arts, Blairstown Academy, Blairstown, NY 07825

2007 George Billis Gallery, "Watercolors"511 West 25thSt., New York, NY 10001

2007 George Billis Gallery, Oils,511 West 25th St., New York, NY 10001

2005 George Billis Gallery, 511 West 25thSt., New York, NY 10001

2003 George Billis Gallery, 511 West 25thSt., New York, NY 10001

2003 Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD

2003 Kingsborough College, Brooklyn NY

2001 George Billis Gallery, 526 West 26thSt., New York, NY 10001

2000 George Billis Gallery, 526 West 26thSt., New York, NY 10001

1997 Irish Arts Center, NYC

1997 Station Master's House, Kiltimagh, Mayo, Ireland

1996 Elsbeth Woody Gallery, CAC, Portchester, NY

1996 Irish Arts Center, NYC

1995 Big Red Barn, UCROSS Foundation, Clearmont, WY

1994 Irish Arts Center, NYC

1991 First New York Bank For Business, NYC

Two Person Exhibitions

2021 Eternity in an Hour, virtual exhibition with Elizabeth Await, Caldbeck Gallery, ME

2021 New Paintings: The Summer of 2020, with Lois Dodd, Caldbeck Gallery, ME

2018 Painting Winter, with Lois Dodd, George Billis Gallery, NYC

2002 List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia,with Lois Dodd

2000 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

1999 The Painting Center, Greene St. NYC

1996 Jay County Center for the Arts, Indiana

1995 West Cork Arts Center, Skibbereen, Ireland

Awards and Residencies

2016 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Painting Award

1997 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland

1996 Coillte Mach, Visual Artist's Residence, Ireland

1995 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant

1995 Ragdale Foundation, Visual Artist's Residence, ILL

1994 UCROSS Foundation, Visual Artist's Residence, WY

1993 Vermont Studio Center, Visual Artist's Residence, VT

1992 Graduate Fellowship, Brooklyn College

1991 Charles G. Shaw Award for painting, Brooklyn College

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

  • For We Are All Sprung From Earth and Water, Caldbeck Gallery,12 Elm St, Rockland, ME

2023

  • The New Season, Caldbeck Gallery,12 Elm St, Rockland, ME
  • Blooming, THERE, New York, NY
  • Winter at Caldbeck, Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St, Rockland, ME
  • Fall Group Show, George Billis Gallery, 527 west 23rd, NYC

2022

  • June Group Exhibition, Caldbeck Gallery,12 Elm St, Rockland, ME
  • Light of Day, Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune St, New York, NY

2021

  • Painting the Moon & Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends with Jeff Epstein, Dan Finaldi, and Elizabeth O’Reilly, The Trenton City Museum, Ellarslie, NJ
  • Royal Hibernian Academy 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Call it Winter, National Arts Club, New York

2020

  • The Trenton City Museum, Painting The Moon and Beyond: Lois Dodd and Friends Ellarslie, NJ
  • National Arts Club, Selections from the National Arts Club Permanent Collection with Guests, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY

2019

  • Somewhere Out There, Zeuxis, 135 W 26th St, New York, NY
  • Red, New York School of the Arts, New York, NY
  • Lois Dodd & Friends: Painting in Blairstown, Romano Gallery, Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts, Blair Academy, Blairstown, NY
  • Visions of Nature, Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Bklyn, NY
  • Royal Hibernian Academy 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Back to Nature, Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St, Rocklan,d ME

2018

  • Winter Show, Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St, Rockland, ME
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 188th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • 92nd St Y, Faculty Show, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
  • New York School of the Arts, Faculty Show,New York, NY
  • Summer Cityscape Show, George Billis Gallery, 521 West 26th St,New York, NY
  • Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Student & Faculty Show
  • RUN, benefit show, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Building, Sligo Ireland 2017

2017

  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 187th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Creative Mischief, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
  • Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views, Heritage Museum & Gardens, Sandwich, MA
  • 92nd St Y Faculty Show, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

2016

  • Winter Show, Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St, Rockland, ME
  • Respondiong to Place, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 186th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Creative Mischief, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY
  • Visions of Nature, Student/Faculty show, Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn, NY

2015

  • Spring Tonic,Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm St, Rockland, ME
  • National Academy School, Mid Year Student/Faculty show, New York, NY
  • Arkansas Work on Paper, Arkansas Art Center 47th Collector Show, Arkansas
  • Kentler Celebrates 25: Advisory Board Selects, Kentler International Drawing Space, NY
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 185th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Paint The Farm: Artists Celebrating Farming, Firehouse Center for The Falcon Foundation, Damariscotta, Maine
  • 7 on site + 2, Newtownbarry House, Bunclody, County Wexford, Ireland

2014

  • Women Choose Women Again, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
  • Visions of Nature: Student and Faculty Show: Steinhardt Conservatory Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

2013

  • 45th Collector's Show:Arkansas Work on Paper, Arkansas Art Center:
  • Adelphi University, Garden City, NY: On the Horizon
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 188th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Ballinglen Foundation Benefit, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
  • National Academy Museum Benefit, National Academy, New York, NY
  • Summer Cityscape Show, George Billis Gallery, 521 West 26th St. New York, NY

2012

  • New York Moments: George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
  • Vass House Benefit, Clearwater, NJ
  • National Academy Annual Benefit, New York, NY
  • 31st Annual Holiday Exhibition, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME      
  • Lois Dodd: My Students, Firehouse Gallery, Damariscotta ME
  • Stratford Rivers Conservancy Benefit, NH
  • The Work of Women, Gallery North, Setauket, NY

2011

  • Maine As Muse, Lohin Geduld Gallery, 531 West 25th St., New York, NY
  • The Buildings of New York, George Billis Gallery, 521 West 26th St. B1, New York, NY
  • Collage Perspectives: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
  • Stratford Rivers Conservancy Benefit, New Hampshire
  • Samaritans Benefit, New York, NY
  • National Academy Museum Benefit, New York, NY
  • Oysterponds Historical Society Benefit, Orient, NY
  • UCROSS Retrospective Exhibition, UCROSS Foundation Art Gallery,Clearmont, WY
  • UCROSS Foundation, 27 Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY

2010

  • National Academy Museum 185th Annual, New York, NY
  • Royal Hibernian Academy 18th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • New York Moments, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
  • Haiti Benefit, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
  • National Academy Annual Benefit, New York, NY
  • Maine Farmland Trust Benefit Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland ME

2009

  • Urban Structures, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
  • Night, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
  • In Leslie's Garden, Caldbeck Gallery, ME
  • Watercurrents: Water, Painting Center, New York, NY

2008

  • Royal Hibernian Academy, 178th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • 3 Painters, Caldbeck Gallery, Elm St., Rockland, ME
  • Painting New York City Parks, Lori Bookstein Gallery, New York, NY
  • Prince St. Invitational, Prince St. Gallery, New York, NY
  • Fluid Fields, Painting Center, New York, NY
  • City Lights, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
  • Five Hands On, Collage & Mixed Media, Far Fields, Treadwell, NY

2007

  • Out Looking In, In Looking Out: Urbanism: New York City, The Painting Center, NY

2006

  • American Artists in Rural Ireland: The Ballinglen Experience, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

2005

  • New Jersey: A Sense of Place, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
  • Fresh Start, Benefit Exhibition for A Window Between Worlds and My Friend's Place, Arena 1 Gallery at the Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA
  • Blue Ocean Institute, Benefit Show, Solomon Projects, Atlanta
  • Watercurrents, Kouros Gallery, NYC

2003

  • Painting the Brooklyn Waterfront, Fordham University, Tarrytown
  • New American Painting, Open Studios Press, Massachusettes
  • R.H.A. Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
  • Peppercanister Gallery Summer Show, Dublin, Ireland
  • George Billis Gallery, Inaugural Show, NYC
  • Curator's Choice, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
  • Artists in Philadelphia, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
  • Kentler International Drawing Space, Benefit Show, Brooklyn, NY
  • Ballinglen: The Artist in Rural Ireland, from the collection of The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo General Hospital, Ireland
  • Zeuxis, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

2002

  • Home & Away, Irish Contemporary Art, Irish Arts Center, NYC
  • Home & Away, Irish Contemporary Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisonsin
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
  • Foresight, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
  • Curator’s Choice, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
  • Chernobyl Benefit, Schull, Ireland

2001

  • Museum of the City of Trenton, Ellarslie Open XIX
  • Fellows of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
  • Winter Show, Taylor Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • Ragdale Benefit Show, Chicago, Illinois
  • Offspring, Artists Benefit the Child, BHMS Gallery, Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, 185 Court St. Brooklyn, NY,
  • NY Chernobyl Benefit, Schull, Ireland

2000

  • Curator's Choice, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
  • Women's View, Two Generations of Women Artists from NYC, Haverford College, PA. Curator: Ying Li
  • National Academy of Design, NYC, 175th Annual Exhibition
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, Annual Exhibition Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
  • Taylor Gallery Summer Show, Kildare St. Dublin, Ireland
  • Pale Dog Gallery, Chernobyl Benefit, Main St., Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland
  • Offspring, Artists Benefit the Child, BHMS Gallery, Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, 185 Court St. Brooklyn, NY
  • Heritage Week by Duchas, Ceide Fields Visitor Center, Mayo, Ireland
  • NYC Fire Museum, Silent Art Auction, 278 Spring St., NYC

1999

  • U.S. Artists in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
  • Industry's Architecture, Pfizer, Brooklyn, NY Curator: Meredith McNeal, Associate Director, The Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton St. Brooklyn, NY
  • RHA Annual Exhibition, 15 Ely Place, Dublin, Ireland
  • A-Way to Ireland, New Hampshire Institute of Art, NH
  • New Jersey Landscapes, Rider University Art Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ. Curated by Lois Dodd
  • Iontas Tenth Annual Small Works Show, Sligo, Ireland
  • Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
  • Eigse, Carlow, Ireland
  • Landscape & Inspiration: The Ballinglen Experience
  • Glucksman Ireland House, Washington Mews, NYC

1998

  • Winter Show, The Painting Center, Greene St, New York, NY
  • Prince Street Artists Invite..., Prince Street. Gallery, New York, NY
  • Winterland, Deutsche Bank, NYC
  • Iontas Ninth Annual Small Works Show, Sligo Ireland
  • Sligo Art Gallery, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Juried by Peter Murray, Crawford Museum, Cork
  • Ballinglen Group Show, Curator: John Smalley, Tasis School, London
  • Taylor Gallery Summer Show, Dublin, Ireland
  • Eigse, Carlow, Ireland, Juried Show
  • Contemporary Paintings of New Jersey, Firehouse Gallery, N.J. Curated by Lois Dodd

1997

  • Group Show, Taylor Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • New Members Show, Trenton City Museum, N.J.
  • TAWA, Members Annual Show, Trenton City Museum, N.J.
  • Iontas National Small Works Show: Jurors: Shiela Hourahane and Ruairi O'Cuiv, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, West Cork Arts Center, Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland

1996

  • Mindscapes: 9 Painters 9, Salena Gallery, L.I.U., NY
  • 10th Annual Small Works Show, New York University, Juror: Edward Thorp of Edward Thorp Gallery
  • TAWA at Johnson & Johnson, Corporate Art Gallery, Johnson & Johnson, N.J.
  • Holy Ghost School Benefit, N.Y.
  • Eigse, Juror: Gwen O'Dowd, Carlow, Ireland

1995

  • 60th Annual National Exhibition, Cooperstown, N.Y. Juror: Holland Cotter, Critic, New York Times
  • National Small Works, Schoharie County Arts Council, Juror: Jon Ippolito,Curator: Guggenheim Museum
  • Eigse, Carlow, Ireland. Juror: Trevor Geoghegan
  • BWAC, Pier Show 111, Brooklyn, NYC
  • Friends of Ragdale, Ragdale Foundation, Illinois 1994
  • Small Works Show, BACA Downtown Gallery, Brooklyn
  • Mass Exposure, Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC
  • 1994 National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Juror: Charles Movalli
  • National Juried Exhibition, Bowery Gallery, NY, Juror: Natalie Charkow
  • MFA Alumni Exhibition, La Guardia Gallery, NY, Curated by Lois Dodd

1993

  • Wall to Wall, Art Initiatives, Galerie 148, NY
  • MFA Thesis Show, Westbeth Gallery, NY 1992
  • Group Show, La Guardia Hall, Brooklyn College, NY
  • B.W.S. Annual Show, Brooklyn Union Gas, Brooklyn NY

1989-92

  • B.W.S. Show, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, Pan Am Building, NY
  • Artists at Waterside, Waterside Plaza, NY

1989

  • 31st Annual Juried Show, Suburban Art League, Oyster Bay
  • Artists at Waterside, Waterside Plaza, NY
Reviews & Publications
  • Artcritical.com, "Presence, Absence, and Light in the Paintings of Elizabeth O’Reilly," Nov 7, 2013, Peter Malone
  •  OnViewAt.com, "Stylistic Flair and Rhythmic Conviction,"Nov 8, 2013, John Goodrich
  •  The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Painterly Collages," Nov 27, 2011, Edith Newhall
  •  CityArts, "Abstracting the Real," Oct 12, 2011, Maureen Mullarkey
  •  Brooklyn Daily Eagle,"Gowanus Artist Elizabeth O’Reilly Puts Canal on the Map-Artistically," Oct 17, 2011, Carl Blumenthal
  •  City Arts, July 15, 2010, Maureen Mullarkey
  •  An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture & The Arts, Vol 4 #1, Spring 2008
  • Watercolor Magazine, Feature Article, Summer 2007
  • The New York Observer, Currently Hanging, Dec 5, 2005, Mario Naves
  • The New York Sun, Arts & Letters, Nov 17, 2005, Maureen Mullarke
  • New York Times, L.I. Edition, Reviews, Aug 15, 2004, Helen Harrisony
  • The New York Sun, Arts & Letters, July 29, 2004, Maureen Mullarkey
  • Art News, Feb, ’04, Megan Heue
  • The New York Sun, Weekend Edition, Nov 24 – 26, 2003, David Cohen
  • Brooklyn Free Press, Vol 1 # 47 Nov 14 – 20, 2003, Jennifer Needleman
  • Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 17, 2002, Victoria Donohoe
  • The New York Sun, Weekend Edition, Calendar, Oct 24-26, 2004
  • New American Painting, #44 Open Studios Press, Boston
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 9, 2002, James Auer, Journal Sentinel Art Critic
  • Art in America, Oct. '02, Gerrit Henry
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 17, '02, Victoria Donohue, Inquirer Art Critic
  • New American Painting, #44 Open Studios Press, Boston
  • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 9, '02, James Auer, Journal Sentinel Art Critic
  • New Art World Order: Shepherd Express, Ireland Goes Global at the Haggerty, June 20th, '02, Nathan Guequierre
  • Irish Connections, March/April, 2001, Elizabeth Martin, contributing editor
  • Brooklyn Heights Press, Feb 2001, Carl Blumenthal
  • Phoenix, Brooklyn Heights Press, Nov. 2000, Abigail H. Regier
  • American Artist, Sept. 2000, Stephen M. Doherty, editor-in-chief
  • Irish Connections, July/Aug. 2000, Elizabeth Martin, contributing editor
  • New York Times, Feb. 25th, 2000, Ken Johnson
  • Irish Times, April 1995, June 17, 1999
  • Cork Examiner, April 1995
Visiting Artist

2007

  • COLBY COLLEGE, Waterville, Maine
  • UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN CAROLINA, Sylva, NC

2004

  • SUFFOCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Philadelphia, PA

2002

  • TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin, Ireland
  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, Philadelphia, PA

2001

  • TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin, Ireland
  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, Philadelphia, PA
  • BROOKLYN COLLEGE, Graduate Program, Brooklyn NY

2000

  • OLD LYME ACADEMY, Connecticut

1996

  • BROOKLYN COLLEGE Graduate Program, Brooklyn, NY

1994

  • SHERIDAN COLLEGE, Sheridan College, WY
Teaching

2017-23 NEW YORK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 315 East 62nd St, New York, NY

2013-19 ART NEW ENGLAND SUMMER PROGRAM MASS ART, Bennington, VT

2013-19 ROCK GARDENS INN, Sebasco Estates, ME 04565, Workshop

2013-19 BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN, Painting Fall Foliage, Watercolor

2017 SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Brentwood, NY

2015-17 NATIONAL ACADEMY SCHOOL, Workshop, New York, NY

2013 PRATT INSTITUTE, Foundation Dept, Brookyn, NY

2011 NATIONAL ACADEMY SCHOOL, Workshop, New York, NY

2010-'11 PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Foundation Dept, New York, NY

2004-'06 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FINE ART, School of Fine Arts, New York, NY

2002 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF FINE ART, School of Fine Arts, New York, NY

2001 ALFRED UNIVERSITY, NY, Burren School of Art, Summer Program

2000 ART WORKSHOP INTERNATIONAL, Assissi, Italy

1998-'01 PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN Foundation Dept.: Drawing Fundamentals, New York, NY

1998 PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN Pre-College Drawing, New York, NY

1995-'98 NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, 12th St. New York: Drawing & Painting New York On-Site

1996 NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, Creative Painting & Drawing

1995-'96 STUDIO MANAGER, New School, Studio Art Program

1995-'96 BROOKLYN COLLEGE: Watercolor Painting

1994 CHAUTAUQUA SCHOOL OF ART: High School Drawing

Collections
  • Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA
  • Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
  • David McKee, David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
  • State Dept. Washington D.C.
  • Office of Public Works, Ireland
  • Apache Oil, Corporate Headquarters, Wyoming, U.S.
  • U.S.A.A. Insurance Co., San Antonio, Texas
  • Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
  • Pfizer, NYC
  • Deloitte and Touche, NYC
  • Deutsche Bank, NYC
  • Sprint, NYC
  • Maimonides Cancer Center, Brooklyn, NY
Board of Directors

2004 Kentler International Drawing Space, Van Brunt St. Brooklyn, Board Member

2003 Kentler International Drawing Space, Van Brunt St. Brooklyn, Chair