Jack Reilly

Jack Reilly is long-standing contemporary American artist known as a pioneer of shaped-canvas paintings. His artistic career began in Los Angeles during the late 1970s when he was discovered by legendary L. A. gallerist, Molly Barnes. He is recognized as an original member of the Abstract Illusionism movement with work exhibited in galleries and museums internationally and included in numerous public and private collections. Major public art commissions include a forty-foot painting, executed in enamel on steel, for San Diego County, and an eighteen foot shaped-canvas painting commissioned by American Airlines. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant. He currently maintains studios in California and Florida.

1978 MFA, 1976 BFA Florida State University,
1974 AA Daytona State College, Daytona, FL
1973 Paris American Academy, Paris, France
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2016 Awarded Professor Emeritus, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, 2001-2015 Professor of Art & Art Dept. Chair.
1987-2001 California State University, Northridge, CA, Professor of Art.
1985-1987 Otis College Of Art And Design, Los Angeles, CA, Instructor, Art Foundation.
1979-1981 Arizona Western College, Yuma, AZ, Visiting Professor: Artist in Residence.

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 New Media Gallery, Ventura College, CA
2023 bG Bleicher Gorman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2021 Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
2018 bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, CA
2015 Sergent Fine Art, Lahaina, Maui, HI
2013 Napa Gallery, Cal State Univ. CIs, Camarillo, CA
2012 bG Bleicher/Gorman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Getty Pacific Standard Time)
2011 Robert Graves Gallery, Wenatchee College, WA
2011 McNish Art Gallery, Oxnard College, CA
2010 Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 Cal State Univ. CI Palm Gallery, Old Town Camarillo, CA
2008 Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Galerie Pavillion du Val de Grace, Paris American Academy
2008 Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 Visual Arts Studio, Richmond, VA
2003 New Media Gallery, Ventura College
2002 Handel Evans Gallery, Camarillo, CA.
1997 Gasgon Theater, Solo Film Screening, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Nemiroff-Deutsch Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA
1991 Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 Artspace Gallery, Clark County College, Las Vegas, NV
1990 El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
1990 James Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA
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