Susan Mullally is originally from Oakland, California. She lived and worked in North Carolina for 25 years before moving to Texas to join the Baylor Art Department faculty in 2007.

Mullally's work explores race, class, ownership, value, cultural identification and representation, and faith. The new portraits and text in What I Keep, are a further exploration of what began as an archive in her online virtual museum, www.myvirtualmuseum.com.

Mullally’s portfolio was recently selected for publication in Portfolio Showcase Vol. #3 by Stella Kramer for the Center for Fine Art Photography and received a top award at the 6th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition at the Jenkins Fine Art Center, East Carolina University, juried by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. This year her work was included in the Kentucky National 2009 Exhibition of Contemporary Art, juried by Mark Masuoka Chief Curator of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and The Biennial Bailout at the Golden Belt Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Elin O'Hara Slavick. Her work was also seen in the 2009 Perspective Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography. In February 2009, "What I Keep" was exhibited as a solo exhibition with a panel discussion at Christopher Newport University.

In 2010 "What I Keep" is scheduled for exhibition at the Louise Jones Brown Gallery at Duke University, the Robeson Gallery at Penn State and the Fine Arts Gallery at Guilford College. Mullally also participated in the national juried review, PhotoAlliance, "Our World", in San Francisco and looks forward to a three-month residency at The Beijing Studio Center this summer.

Mullally’s work work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Nation, Literary Companion, The Arts Journal, Christian Science Monitor and many southern university publications. She has photographed Maya Angelou, Rosa Guy, Pauli Murray and A.R. Ammons for their book jackets for major publishers. Her portraits of Romare Bearden, Chuck Close, Philip Pearlstein, Alfred Leslie, Jacob Lawrence, Gregory Gillespie and Alan Shields are in the permanent collection of Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC. Mullally has produced three books and many monographs, most notably, Hope & Dignity, Older Black Women of the South, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and published by Temple University Press.

MFA, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
MA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
BFA, University of California-Berkeley