Daniel Mudie Cunningham is the Director of Wollongong Art Gallery.

Since the mid-1990s he has worked as an independent curator, writer, and practicing artist.

Recent activities include lecturing at the National Art School and delivering Cementa's 2024 festival as Lead Curator. In 2023 he was Guest Co-Artistic Director of Performance Space with Rosie Dennis.

Previously, he was the Director of Programs at Carriageworks from 2017–22. He has held leadership and curatorial roles at Artbank and Hazelhurst Arts Centre, and teaching and research positions at Western Sydney University, where he completed a BA Honours (First Class) in Art History and Criticism in 1997 and a PhD in Cultural Studies in 2004.

Since the mid-1990s, his prolific writing has taken the form of artist monographs, catalogue essays, academic papers, articles, and reviews. His editing work includes the publications Artlink (2021), Sturgeon (2013-16), and Runway (2009).

His work as an artist over three decades was the subject of the survey exhibition Are You There? at Wollongong Art Gallery, curated by James Gatt (2023). A major monograph will be released in November 2024 comprising essays and texts by some of Australia’s most esteemed writers.

His video performance works have been widely exhibited and acquired by various public collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Film & Sound Archive, Artbank, City of Sydney, Macquarie University, Murray Art Museum Albury, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Wollongong Art Gallery, Australian Queer Archives, and private collections such as the Museum of Old and New Art, who hold his works Funeral Songs and Proud Mary (the latter is currently on display).