Belonging to the Yamatji people of the Inggarda language group of northwest Western Australia, Stephen Gilchrist is Associate Lecturer of Indigenous Art at the University of Sydney. He is a writer and curator who has worked with the Indigenous Australian collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2003–2005); the British Museum, London (2008); the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2005–2010); and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (2011–2013). He was also the Australian Studies Visiting Curator at the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University (2012–2016).
Stephen has curated numerous exhibitions in Australia and the United States and has written extensively on Indigenous Art from Australia.