CV
Related Professional Experience
Architect/Planner . 20 years
Theatrical Set Construction/Props/Scenic Painting . 10 years
Education
Savannah College of Art & Design, Atlanta . Painting
Virginia Polytechnic and State University . Architecture
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
paper kites / uncertain sky . whitespace . Atlanta . 2020 (duo)
Docking on the Orphic Shore . whitespace . Atlanta . 2016 (solo)
28 Nocturnes . Moon Gallery . Berry College . Mt Berry . 2015 (solo)
Dark Matter . Zeitgeist Gallery . Nashville . 2014 (solo)
Restorative Terrain . Beverly Art Center . Chicago . 2014 (duo)
Systematic Wonder . Stanley Beaman Sears . Atlanta . 2013 (duo)
Perpetual Assembly . whitespace . Atlanta . 2011 (duo)
Surface Mining . Georgia Perimeter College . Clarkston . 2010 (solo)
Coverings . The Mattress Factory . Atlanta . 2010 (duo)
Selected Group Exhibitions
WILDERNESS . Manifest Gallery . Cincinnati . 2022
Soft Boundary [4×4]: A Critical Look at Architectural Research . Stanford University . Palo Alto . 2019
Civil Discourse . Kibbee Gallery . Atlanta . 2018
The Personal Art of Atlanta Architects . The Portfolio Center . Atlanta . 2018
SUBMERGED . SciArt Center at 184 Orchard Gallery . New York . 2018
December Show . whitespace . Atlanta . 2017
SUBMERGED . SciArt Center . New York . 2017 (online)
Atlanta Gallery Collective . Ponce City Market . Atlanta . 2017
Gathered III . Museum of Contemporary Art of GA . Atlanta . 2017
Graphite Vision . Schick Art Gallery . Skidmore College . Saratoga Springs . 2017
Ineffable Domains . Zeitgeist Gallery . Nashville . 2016
Abstraction Today . Museum of Contemporary Art of GA . Atlanta . 2016
Chain Reaction . The Gallery@HotelIndigo Athens . Athens GA . 2016
25th Annual Miniatures Show . Abend Gallery . Denver . 2015
Contrast [Black+White] . Blue Spiral 1 . Asheville . 2015
December Show . whitespace . Atlanta . 2014
Second Nature . Barbara Archer Gallery . Atlanta . 2014
Nocturnal Labyrinth . Miyako Yoshinaga . New York . 2014
Aqua13 . Aqua Art Miami Contemporary Art Fair . Miami . 2013
GIFT SHOP . Front Art Space . New York . 2013
Pottery and Hand-made Objects . The Hambidge Center . Rabun Gap . 2013
Drawing Inside the Perimeter . High Museum of Art . Atlanta . 2013
Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists . Museum of Contemporary Art of GA . Atlanta . 2013
MAGNITUDE 7 . Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center . Cincinnati . 2013
E-MERGE . Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Concourse T . Atlanta . 2013-2014
aqua12 . Aqua Art Miami Contemporary Art Fair . Miami . 2012
Small Works 2012 . Gutstein Gallery . Savannah . 2012
Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Exhibition . Swan Coach House Gallery . Atlanta . 2012
From Cosmology to Neurology and Back Again . whitespace . Atlanta . 2012
Backlash . SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery . New York . 2012
Selections from the 7th International Drawing Annual . Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center . Cincinnati . 2012
Hunter Underground 2012 . Hunter Museum of American Art . Chattanooga . 2012
Out of the Gray . Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center. Cincinnati . 2012
Drawing Discourse – 3rd Annual Contemporary Drawing Exhibition . Univ of NC . Asheville . 2012
Architects as Artists . Swan Coach House Gallery . Atlanta . 2012
aqua11 . Aqua Art Miami Contemporary Art Fair . Miami . 2011
Gendered Images: The Feminine Divine . Badè Museum . Berkeley . 2011
nuit blanche (content for broadcast installation by M. Vaitsman) . Toronto . 2011
Material Deposits . Atlanta Contemporary Art Center . Atlanta . 2011
Georgia Artists: A Juried Exhibit . Abernathy Arts Center . Sandy Springs . 2011
33rd Bradley International Print + Drawing Exhibition . The Contemporary Art Center of Peoria . Peoria . 2011
Conversions, Evolutions, and Turning Points . Dewberry Gallery . Atlanta . 2011
Drawing in the Expanded Field . Clara Hatton Gallery . CO State University . Ft. Collins . 2010
7th Annual AAC National Show . Atlanta Artists Center . Atlanta . 2010
Salon de Refuses – Sights Unseen . Americans for The Arts Half-Century Summit Conference . Baltimore . 2010
How to Break Up with Yourself . Dewberry Gallery . Atlanta . 2010
Impromp2 . Studio 22 . Serenbe . 2009
@Large . The Mattress Factory . Atlanta . 2008
Architect’s Art . The Barton Gallery . Sacramento . 2004
Selected Collections and Commissions
ACA Library at SCAD Atlanta
City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
Columbia Property Trust . Atlanta
Equity Resources . Birmingham
Fulton County Arts & Culture . Atlanta
Gensler . Atlanta
High Museum of Art . Atlanta
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) . Virginia Tech
NovoCarbon . Toronto
Awards, Registries, and Residencies
Residency . The Hambidge Center . Rabun Gap . 2013
Full Fellowship Residency . Vermont Studio Center . 2013
Idea Capital Travel Grant . 2013
2nd place, International Drawing Annual 7 (INDA7) . Manifest Press . 2013
The Drawing Center Viewing Program . 2012
Art in Embassies Registry . U.S. Department of State . 2012
City of Atlanta Public Art Program National Registry . 2012
Fulton County Public Art Program Artist Registry . 2012
Full Fellowship Residency . The Hambidge Center . Rabun Gap . 2012
Studio Artist Program . Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center . Atlanta . 2011-2014
Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award – Finalist . Atlanta . 2012
Selected Bibliography/Media
Extraordinary subtlety on view in “paper kites / uncertain sky” at Whitespace . review . ArtsATL . 2020
Orphic Mysteries: Seana Reilly at Whitespace . review . Burnaway . 2016
Process: Seana Reilly’s Graphite Abstractions . video . Burnaway . 2016
“Abstraction Today” offers a worthwhile pluralism and survey of six Atlanta galleries . review . ArtsATL . 2016
Art Review : Forms of Abstraction at MOCA GA . review . Burnaway . 2016
Artist dances, goes with the flow . review . The Tennessean . 2014
South by South Beach . review . Burnaway . 2013
Converging Forces: Idea Capital Artists on Creation and Orientation . interview . Burnaway . 2013
The Science of Letting Go: . interview with Seana Reilly . Drain Magazine . 2012
New American Paintings . Issue #100 . 2012
INDA7: International Drawing Annual Vol.7 . catalog . 2012
Strokes of Genius 4: the Best of Drawing . catalog . 2012
Drawing Discourse – 3rd Annual Contemporary Drawing Exhibition . catalog . 2012
Seana Reilly’s Artwork Meditates on the Science of Letting Go . review . Burnaway . 2011
Ann Stewart, Seana Reilly plumb the limits of knowledge . review . ArtsCriticATL . 2011
Material Deposits Explores the Necessity of Objects at ACAC . review . Burnaway . 2011
‘Deposits’ Delivers Compositions That Capture the Eye . review . AJC . 2011
Art review : Juried Georgia artists exhibition at Abernathy Arts Center . review . AJC . 2011
The Schematics Series; works in graphite . catalog . 2011
How to Break Up With Yourself . catalog (w/foreword by Alfredo Jaar) . 2010
Gallery Representation
Whitespace . Atlanta