[9]: 176 Josephine Withers described the show as placing the exhibit beyond "a priori ideas about what feminist art should look like".
[11][12] In 2015, Reilly organized an all-women issue of ARTnews, in which she offered up statistics demonstrating systemic sexism in the art world.
[16][17][18] Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating was listed as one of the Top 10 Best Art Books of 2018 from the New York Times.
[19] In 2019 she wrote about the lack of representation of women artists in the reinstallation of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.
[21] Reilly and Linda Nochlin co-curated Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, which was the first show at the Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; the show was reviewed by the popular press including The New Yorker magazine[22] and the New York Times.