CV + EDUCATION
PGDip Fine Art Royal Academy of Arts, London 1999–2002
BA (Hons) 1st Class Fine Art University of Brighton, UK 1996–1999
Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design St. Petersburg, Russia 1992-1995
AWARDS + COMMISSIONS
Prizewinner, 37th Speed Painting Competition, Horta de Sant Joan, Spain 2025
First Prize, Rebel Selves Digital Photography, University of Arts Leeds 2024
London Eye Hospital Art Collection Commission 2004
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Award 2002
Liverhulme Trust Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002
Eurostar Travel Grant and Painting Commission, London HQ 2001
Wingate Scholarship, Wingate Foundation, UK 1999–2002
Winsor & Newton Young Artist Award, 1997–1999
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Cami d'Art De Souza Gallery, Cervera del Maestre, Spain
Collaboration Station #18 Espronceda Galleries, Barcelona, Spain
Gatzara! Centre El Coll La Bruguera, Barcelona, Spain
2024
Studio Grotesque (solo), Museu de l’Ebre, Tortosa, Spain
Pintures de Baix Ebre (solo), City Council Gallery, Tivenys, Spain 2024
Centenary of Surrealism Maison André Breton, St Cirq‑Lapopie, France 2024
2023
Accions Per Tornar A Casa Centre El Coll La Bruguera, Barcelona, Spain 2023
D-Construction Inaugural Video Screening Grosso Modo Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Surrealist Poetry Night Video Screening Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Invisible Geographies 20th Edition of FLEFF Film Festival, Ithaca College, New York, USA
2010 - 2023
Fermenting Feminism Front/Space Gallery, Kansas City, USA 2017
(Dis)Connected Forms Hull, UK 2016
Now and After Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia 2013
Classifieds SIA Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, UK 2013
Serial Box Film Festival University of Missouri, USA 2013
Supposedium Underground Symposium of Electronic Arts, Albuquerue, USA 2013
Classifieds SIA Gallery Sheffield Hallam University, UK 2013
exDox Film Festival Cologne OFF, touring around the World 2013
Westworld Xero, Kline & Coma Gallery, London 2013
Artbyte Crocus Gallery, Nottingham 2013
Inside Is Not The Opposite Of Outside Bronx Art Space, New York 2012
Construction Gallery Video Screening Construction Gallery, London 2012
Full Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Unstitute Co‑founder / Curator of an experimental art laboratory & online gallery 2011-present Visit The Unstitute
Arts and Culture Hour with Marianna A monthly bilingual radio show on Top Cat Radio
Traces Art Collective, Barcelona View Info
RESIDENCIES
Auroville Radio Residency, Tamil Nadu, India 2016
Writers' Room Residency, Construction Gallery, London 2013
PUBLICATIONS
The Carouser’s Notebook Drawings by Marianna Magurudumian O'Reilly & Daniel O’Reilly. A beautifully designed book containing over 70 surreal black and white drawings by the artist couple. Buy on Lulu
Making Love to My Ego, Exhibition Catalogue, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Fermenting Feminism, Publication by Lauren Fournier & Broken Dimanche Press, Berlin, Germany
Threads International Catalogue, Museu Tèxtil, Louisiana, USA
Honidi Surrealist Magazine #3, Belle Inutile Editions, Santiago, Chile
Incisions, Pluto Art Zine, USA Interview
CONTACT + SOCIAL MEDIA
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Facebook: Marianna O’Reilly
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