- » Hetti Perkins, Michael Riley: Half Light Portraits From Black Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2008, 110-119
- » Brenda L. Croft, ‘True beauty: Michael Riley’s portraits 1984-1990’, Photofile, Vol. 93, Spring/Summer 2013-14, pp. 33-39
- » Bronwyn Watson, Beauty touched by horror in the photographs of Aboriginal artist Michael Riley, The Australian, August 03 2013, www.theaustralian.com.au
- » Cathy Craigie, 'Michael Riley, A common place: Portraits of Moree Murries', exh. text. The Commercial Gallery, Sydney, 2016
- » Michael Riley, 'Liking What I Do', Part 1, Interview by Andrew Dewdney, 1989, Racism, Representation and Photography, 1994, pp141-145
- » Michael Riley, 'Liking What I Do', Part 2, Interview by Sandra Phillips, 1992, Racism, Representation and Photography, 1994, pp146-150
- » Amanda Rowell, 'Michael Riley's early portraits', Portrait Magazine, National Portrait Gallery, Spring/Summer, 2014, p25
- » Djon Mundine OAM, 'Untitled', First impression: Indigenous works from the ACU Art Collection, exh. cat., Australian Catholic University, Sydney, 2020, pp. 50-51
- » Anne Elvey, ‘Michael Riley’s Bible and the Touch of the Text (with reference to the Gospel of Luke)’, The Bible and Art, Perspectives from Oceania, eds., Carolyn Blyth, and Nasili Vaka’uta, Bloomsbury T and T Clark, London, 2017, pp. 163-186
- » Amanda Rowell, Buruwi Burra (Three Skies), 2015, exh. cat., The Commercial Gallery, Sydney