After fourteen years as a public space, Mulcahy Modern since 2007 is currently focused on independent curatorial projects.

                                                 Recent projects include an exhibition of LeRoy Grannis' documentary photography of the birth of the American surf culture in the 1960s and 1970s at

                                                 the American Institute of Architects / Dallas Center for Architecture's new space in the downtown Arts District in 2009.   

                                             Birth of Surf: The 1960s and 1970s Documentary Photography of LeRoy Grannis                             

                                                     For more information on Birth of Surf: The 1960s and 1970s Documentary Surf Photography of LeRoy Grannis:  click on Past Exhibitions menu button above

                                                 Future Exhibitions:

                                                    Contemporary documentary photography exhibition co-curated with arts writer and curator Charles Dee Mitchell

                                                       Akintunde Akinleye  Left and middle: Pipeline explosion, Lagos, Nigeria    Right: Niger river militants

                                                        Os Modernistas: Brazilian Documentary Photographers of the Modern Period

                                       Mulcahy Modern was founded in 1994 as a contemporary art gallery in Uptown Dallas by Director Cynthia Mulcahy. After six years in Uptown

                                          Dallas, the gallery relocated its public space in 2000 to the Bishop Arts District for seven and half years until 2007.

                                          Mulcahy Modern has been known primarily for discovering and establishing emerging artists who developed into some of the most important

                                          artists working today with representation in museums, including our own Dallas Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and

                                          many of the most interesting private collections. For fourteen years, Mulcahy Modern has 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 has 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.

                                       Reviews of Mulcahy Modern gallery exhibitions from 1994 to 2007 regularly appeared in publications including The Dallas Morning News,

                                       Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Modern Luxury, F!D Luxe, Papercity, Artl!es, Glasstire.com, Dallas Observer, Texas Highways and D Magazine

                                       as well as national publications such as Art in America, ARTnews, Art Papers, LA's Coagula art journal, Harper's Magazine, Elle Magazine 

                                          and Art & Antiques.

                                          Reviews and coverage of independent curatorial exhibitions since 2007 have appeared in USA Today, The New York Daily News, Surfer

                                          Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Modern Luxury magazine, F!D Luxe magazine, and Dallas Observer.