Stephen Zagala has curated more than 60 exhibitions including ‘Bill Henson shuffles the deck’, Museum of Australian Photography 2014; ‘Tracey Moffatt: Narratives’, Art Gallery of South Australia 2011 (with Maria Zagala) and ‘Afterglow: performance art and photography’, Museum of Australian Photography 2011. He was principle curator at the Museum of Australian Photography between 2006 and 2017, and a research fellow at the South Australian Museum between 2017 and 2024.