Mulcahy Modern was founded in 1995 as a contemporary art exhibition program in Dallas, Texas by Director Cynthia Mulcahy. After

                                          fourteen years as a public space Mulcahy Modern, since 2007, is currently focused on private art dealing and independent curatorial

                                          projects and events held in non-traditional locations that emphasize active community participation.

                                          Recent projects and exhibitions have ranged from a guerrilla taco party at El Camino Transmissions and Fiesta de Despedida, a night

                                          of mariachi performances at a local dive bar to XXI: Conflicts in a New Century, a contemporary photography exhibition co-curated

                                          with Charles Dee Mitchell, that examined conflicts and wars in the first decade of the 21st century at the City of Dallas' newest public

                                          exhibition space, the Oak Cliff Cultural Center in April 2011. 

                                          Other recent exhibitions include two exhibitions of the work of under-recognized documentary photographers of the modern period for

                                          the American Institute of Architects/Dallas Center for Architecture: Birth of Surf: The 1960s and 1970s Documentary Photography

                                          of LeRoy Grannis (2009) and Marcel Gautherot: Mid-Century Photographs of Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia (2007).

                                          Upcoming projects include Square Dance: A Community Project, an event at the newly-built Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas

                                          on November 12, 2011, that proposes art as social practice in the form of an outdoor seasonal community dance. This project is a

                                          collaborative initiative that insists on fellowship in our community and is consonant with the belief that art resides in every day life as

                                          social, cultural practice. Square Dance: A Community Project is generously funded by an Idea Fund Grant from The Andy Warhol

                                          Foundation for the Visual Arts awarded to co-curators Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy in 2011.

                                          Cynthia Mulcahy was the founder and director of Mulcahy Modern from 1995 until 2007, a contemporary art gallery known primarily for

                                          discovering and establishing emerging artists who developed into some of the most important artists in our region working today with

                                          representation in museums, including the Dallas Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and many of the most interesting

                                          private collections. For fourteen years, Mulcahy Modern presented a surprising mix of fresh exhibitions of artists who were chosen based

                                          on their intent to make new statements in their work with each successive body of work.

                                          Our twin mission of discovery and development through exhibitions devoted exclusively to each artist consistently set Mulcahy Modern

                                          apart from most commercial gallery two-person and group exhibition presentations. In addition to the gallery's principle focus on cutting-edge

                                          contemporary art, Mulcahy Modern has researched, funded and mounted historical exhibitions of photography of under-recognized documentary

                                          photographers of the modern period including the work of American LeRoy Grannis and Brazilians Marcel Gautherot and Jose Medeiros.