Hello, I'm Jack Reilly.

After receiving his MFA from Florida State University​,​ in 1978 Jack Reilly moved to Los Angeles to begin his artistic career. He was soon discovered by prominent Los Angeles gallerist Molly Barnes. Following the success of his first solo L.A. exhibition​,​ he was invited to exhibit in the national traveling museum exhibition The Reality of Illusion​,​ showing at the Denver Art Museum; Oakland California Museum; USC Fisher Museum; Johnson Museum at Cornell; Texas Art Museum and Honolulu Academy of Arts. This series of museum exhibitions established Reilly as one of the original artists of the Abstract illusionism painting movement. In 1979 Reilly received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Since the early 1980s​,​ Reilly's paintings have been represented by numerous galleries throughout the U.S. Articles and reviews on Reilly's paintings are published in Arts Magazine​,​ Art Week​,​ the Los Angeles Times​,​ New York Artworld​,​ The New York Art Review​,​ and in books including American Art Now by noted author and art critic Edward Lucie-Smith​,​ Introduction to Design by Robin Landa​,​ and Inside the L.A. Artist by Marva Marrow. Throughout the years​,​ notable collectors including Fredrick Weisman​,​ Steve Martin​,​ Daniel Melnick​,​ and Foster Goldstrom​,​ as well as numerous public institutions have acquired Reilly’s paintings. The1990s yielded major public art commissions including a forty-foot​,​ site-specific wall sculpture for the San Diego Public Arts Program and an eighteen-foot​,​ shaped-canvas painting for American Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport. In 2012 Reilly’s paintings were exhibited as part of the Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time initiative: Art in Los Angeles 1945-1980. In 2016 Reilly’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO). To date​,​ Reilly remains a prolific painter​,​ widely collected and internationally exhibited. Numerous private​,​ public​,​ and corporate collections have acquired Reilly’s work including the Oakland California Museum​,​ Atlantic Richfield​,​ American Airlines​,​ and Verizon among others. In addition to Reilly's long-standing career as an exhibiting painter​,​ he is professor emeritus with California State University​,​ and currently maintains studios in California and Florida.