Geraldine O’Reilly is an Irish artist and printmaker whose work spans painting, drawing and printmaking. She received a Diploma in Fine Art (1979) and an honours degree in Fine Art (painting and drawing) from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (1982). In 1988 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to New York, where she researched Irish emigration to America between the 1840s and 1930s, a theme that has informed aspects of her practice.

O’Reilly has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, including in the United States, Australia, France, Belgium, China, Japan, Sweden, England and Poland. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Chester Beatty Library. She has undertaken residencies at institutions such as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony (USA), the University of Tasmania (Australia), and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.

A long-standing member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 1993, she served as Chair in 2008. O’Reilly has also curated exhibitions, undertaken public art commissions, and taught widely, including at the National College of Art and Design, Ballyfermot College of Further Education and the Royal Hibernian Academy School. Her practice often engages with memory, place and cultural histories.