Lilly Lerner Reilley currently resides in Houston, Texas. After a career in the computer industry, she became a Clay Artist. She has studied ceramics at the Glassell School, the teaching institute of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, for 12 years.

Currently she is a member of the Nosami art studio, a cooperative of clay artists in Houston where she works and exhibits her work.

Her art is made in different clays, techniques and firings. His hand- made pieces are inspired by the story that each piece wants to tell and uses intrinsic materiality to make it.

The body of Lilly’s clay work focuses on the depictions of the elements of daily living that are part of the human journey. Her work, “the purses” uses purses to represent women’s’ individual and collective voices in the community.

Her initial purses reflected the stories of the first-generation immigrant women in Lilly’s childhood community in Colombia. Her series “Messengers and the Queen” depicts the voices and messages of women that are models in current times.

Lilly’s current work continues to reflect women’s’ voices, but now, the emphasis is collective voices as seen from her own perspective as an immigrant to another country.