Tim O’Riley studied painting at Leicester Polytechnic and printmaking at Chelsea College of Art and Design where he received an MA in 1992. He went on to complete a PhD at Chelsea in 1998 and was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship between 2004–8. His work has been exhibited extensively at public venues including the Science Museum in London; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; and PS1, New York. He has also exhibited at Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon; Houldsworth, London; Rubicon Gallery, Dublin; and Briggs Robinson, New York, and has work in various private and public collections.