Email:benjreilly@gmail.com

Education
1998-1999 Winchester School of Art, England, MA Fine Art Sculpture, Distinction.
1991-1995 University College Cork, BA Archaeology, Single Honors.
1983-1987 Crawford College of Art, Cork, Diploma Fine Art, Distinction.
1982-1983 Dun Laoighaire School of Art, DublinVisual Education Certificate.

Residencies
2001 Visiting artist, lecturer, technician, Michigan State College U.S.A.
2000 Studio residency Triskel Art Centre , Cork.
2000 Residency Vermont Studio Centre, U.S.A.
1999/2000 Residency Roches Point Lighthouse, Whitegate, Co Cork.
Cill Rialaigh project, residency Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry.

Solo Exhibitions and Events
2004 ‘Frau Von Havel’ Short film selected for Cork film Festival 2004.
2003 Cinema Caradiso Cork Art Trail, Wandsford Quay.
....... Films projected inside a Renault four van converted into cinema.
2001 Culvert 16mm film project with Cork Film Centre.
........Quiet, Exhibition with Marc Reilly, Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.
2000 Body Sirius Art Center, Cobh, Co, Cork as part of Cork Institute of ........Technology,Arts Festival.
........Asleep,Installation project. City Morgue, White Street, Cork.
1998 National Sculpture Factory, Cork.
1997 Blimp Touring show,Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford
........Triskel Art Centre, Cork.
1996 Gob Touring show, Linnenhall Arts Centre,Castlebar Co, Mayo.
........South Tipperary Arts Centre Clonmel, Co, Cork.
1995 Relief,Café Paradiso, Cork.
1994 Perigrinatio, Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee.
1993 Recent Work,Belltable Art Centre, Limerick.
1992 Recent Work,Aula Max, University College Galway.
1991 Recent Work,Triskel Art Centre, Cork.

Selected Group Shows
2005 ‘C2’ group show Crawford Art Gallery Cork
.........‘Clo in China’ Touring Contemporary Irish print show Hong Kong and .........Beiging.
........‘Crossing over’ Touring show of Contemporary Irish and Welsh .........Sculpture2004 2004 Back water Artists Group show, Angera, Italy.
2004 Figure exhibition group show, Kells, Killkenny
.........Print exhibition Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork.
2003 Print show Lavit Gallery Cork.
.........Selected touring print show,Vangard Cork,
.........Wexford Art Centre,
.........Simsa tire Tralee,
.........Drogheda Arts Centre,
.........Doswell Gallery Limerick.
2002 Cork Printmakers, box set
.........Claremorris open,Claremorris, co Mayo.
.........Group Show St Finbarre’s Cathedral Cork.2002 Cork Printmakers, box set
........Claremorris open,Claremorris, co Mayo.
........Group Show St Finbarre’s Cathedral Cork.
2001 Scoip, Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee.
........EV+a,Limerick.
2000 Group Show,Cork Midsummer Festival Exhibition.
........Group Show,Vermont Studio Cent re Gallery, Vermont, USA.
1999 Bingo, Group Show,National Sculpture Trust Gallery, Winchester, England.
1998 Who’s Still Working 1997-1998, Group Show,University College Cork.
........The Figure, Group Show
........Kornerpark Gallery, Berlin.
........West Cork Art Centre Show,West Cork Art Centre, Skibbereen, Cork.
........Sense of Cork Festival Exhibitions Temporary Public Art Project,Crawford ........Gallery, Cork.
........Lavitt Gallery, Cork.
........St Finbarrs Cathedral, Cork.
........Triskel Art Centre, Cork.
1997 Sense of Cork Exhibition
........Regional Technical College, Cork.
........C.A.S.E. Cork Art Society Summer Show,Lavitt Gallery, Cork.
1996 SCOIP, 96
........Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee, Co, Kerry.
........Group Show, Jo Rain Gallery, Dublin.
........Group Show,Cill Rialaigh Gallery, Dublin.
1995 Installation Exhibition, Honan Hostel
........University College Cork.
........Two Person Show, with Andrew Boyle,Boole Library, Cork University.
........Claremorris Open,Claremorris, Co, Mayo.
........Cork Artists Collective 10th Anniversary, Boole Library, Cork University.
1994 Ben Reilly, Hugh Lorrigan, Maud Cotter, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
........Southern Artist Show, Lavitts Quay Gallery, Cork.
........South West Artists Exhibition,Siamsa Tire Gallery, Cork.
........Art for Chernobyl, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.

Collections
Private collections in Ireland, England, and Holland.
Public collections in University College Cork, University College Dublin, and Regional Technical College, Tralee, Kerry.
Office of the Mayor of René, France, commemoration of twinning with Cork, 1994. Crawford Municipal Art Gallery. A.I.B. and B.O.I Dublin. Eily Lily Cork. O.P.W. Dublin.
The Presidents Office, Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The Granary Theatre, Cork.

Awards
Department of Education Scholarship, Anatoti Scoli Collone Athens, Greece 1988/89 New contemporaries award Triskel Art Centre Cork 1991.
Arts flight 1998.
Arts flight 2000.
Arts flight 2001.
Arts Council bursary 2000.
Arts council materials grant 2001.
Claremorris open Adjudicators prize 2002.
Selected for Peripheral Visions Video Art exhibition for Cork City of Culture 2005.

Commissions
2000/2003
Cork Film Centre trophy commission.
1996
Mc Gee Creedon Architects private commission, North Main Street Cork.
Televox set design commission, Cork.
1995
Cork Film Festival trophy commission. Theatre of Fire commission Cork.