Among the exhibitions she has curated and the activities she has organized with MED-OCC, the following are to be highlighted (in chronological order): 

Between 2008-2011, Zara Fernández de Moya directs the exhibition Yusur- Bridges: Landscape and Architecture in Morocco and Spain, that was part of the cultural program of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union and counted on the High Patronage of the Royal House of Morocco. With the support of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (SAIDC), the Housing Ministry and other private and public institutions it pioneered the display of landscape and architectural similarities between Spain and Morocco with the collaboration of the Cultural Landscape research group of Madrid Polytechnical University and Rabat National Architectural School. The exhibition was inaugurated in Madrid, in Nuevos Ministerios Arcade. Afterwards, it travelled to Frax Foundation in Alicante thanks to Casa Mediterráneo and Italcable exhibition space in Malaga. Thanks to the Embassy of Spain in Morocco and Instituto Cervantes, it was inaugurated in 2011 in National Library in Rabat. 

During this same period, Zara also collaborates in the organization of the project Ilham-Inspiration, promoted by SEACEX (State Society for the Cultural Overseas Action) and the Embassy of Spain in Syria. Curated by Diego Moya, the exhibition counted with prestigious Spanish artists such as José Luis Alexanco, Rafael Canogar, Isabel Muñoz, Soledad Sevilla, Fernando Verdugo and Diego Moya himself. All of them were inspired in the legendary Damascus to produce their own works, which were later exhibited in the Damascus National Museum. 

In 2012 she was the curator and communication officer of the visual arts project that represented Spanish contemporary art in the First Casablanca Biennale after her stay in the artists’ residence in Ifitry (Essaouira) organize by Maroc Premium in collaboration with MED-OCC. Eight Spanish artists that worked in the Residence around the topic of Abyss and them participated in the Biennale: Ximo Amigo, Tono Carbajo, Encarna Cepedal ,José Freixanes ,Diego Moya ,Teresa Muñiz, Marina Vargas y Fernando Verdugo.

Between 2013 and 2014 she was Assistant Director of Communication for the exhibition Nur-Light in the art and the science of the Islamic world by Focus Abengoa Foundation in Seville. This exhibition counted, among others, with the support and collaboration of Arab House and SAIDC: 150 objects provided for the event by important public and private collections from Europe, the North of Africa, Middle East, and United States (the British Museum and the British Library; Furusiyya Art Foundation in Geneve; Bekani Museum in Athens, Bodleian Library in Oxford; Brooklyn Museum in New York; Madinat al-Zahra or the Archaeological Museum in Cordoba; Alhambra Museum in Grenade; the Royal Academy of History; Valencia de Don Juan Institute; Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid, etc.). 

In 2014 she collaborates in the communication of the project Journey to Andalusia, organized by Casa Árabe, Crossway Foundation in London and Art Jameel: a group of young photographers from Saudi Arabia explores the Islamic legacy in Andalusia by participating in workshops, art spaces and well-known Spanish artists’ residences.

In 2015 Zara organizes in Telefónica Foundation Espacio the act The perennial life: Remembering José Luis Sampedro with José Manuel Lucía, Olga Lucas and David Trías. A multidisciplinary act originated in the book The perennial live that counted with the collaboration of the Association José Luis Sampedro’s Friends, the Faculty of Philology of Complutense de Madrid University, Random House Mondadori and Persépolis Center in Madrid. 

In two consecutive editions (2014-2015) Zara is the coordinator of the jury of Visual Arts Ciudad de Alcalá Awards, with Marina Vargas and Diego Moya. 

Between 2016 and 2019 she is the curator of the travelling exhibition Parallel looks. Iran-Spain: Woman photographers in the mirror which, since its inauguration in 2016 in the Cultural Center Conde Duque in the frame of the Festival Ellas Crean (Women Create), has travelled from King Juan Carlos Center in New York to Teheran, Segovia, Seville, Gijón, Granade, Barcelona, Lisbon, etc. The exhibition has been possible thanks to the support of SAIDC, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo Foundation, Consulate of Spain in New York, Persépolis Center in Madrid and many other collaborating institutions. 

Six couples of prestigious women photographers from Spain and Iran: Soledad Córdoba and Shadi Gadirian; Cristina García Rodero and Hengameh Golestan; Amparo Garrido and Rana Javadi; Isabel Muñoz and Gohar Dashti; Mayte Vieta and Ghazaleh Hedayat; María Zarazúa and Newsha Tavakolian. 

In 2017, once again in Telefónica Foundation Espacio, after the presentation of the documentary Angalía Mzungu (RTVE, 2016), Zara Fernández de Moya moderates the colloquium between its protagonist, the photographer Isabel Muñoz (National Photography Award 2016 and twice awarded with the World Press Photo Award), and Yolanda Villaluenga, the documentary director. She had the opportunity to share their two looks and chat with these two women who travelled together to Congo and exchange ideas about this magnificent and committed documentary that depicts the vital and creative process the photographer went through during her third trip to the Kivus area. 

Between 2019 and 2021 she curates the exhibition Trilogy of the soul, by Soledad Córdoba, an outcome of the Leonardo Scholarship for Cultural Researchers and Creators 2017 from BBVA Foundation. The artist travelling over the American deserts resulted in her Trilogy of the soul: Transcendence, the first part, was inaugurated in March 2019 in the galleries of La Cárcel- Berlín in Segovia Centro de Creación in the IX Encounter “Women who transform the world”. Renaissance and Purification were presented in the Gallery Blanca Madrid within the framework of PhotoEspaña 2019 and in the gallery Gema Llamazares in Gijón respectively. Between June and November 2021, the complete Trilogy could be admired in Vila Casas Foundation, in its site of Palau de la Solterra (Torroella del Montgrí) and, in June 2022 at the CMAE in Avilés. Transcendence will be exhibited again in September 2022 at the Moret Art Gallery in A Coruña (Spain).

Zara has also curated the exhibition Stateless: The labyrinth of the invisible, a humanitarian project fostered by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (SAIDC) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the context of the UNHCR campaign #IBelong - #YoPertenezco to prevent and reduce statelessness. The exhibition has visited 

Madrid Caixa Forum, Casa Árabe Nebrija University (2018-2019) and Faculty of Philology from Complutense University (Madrid).

Between 2020 and 2021 she curated the exhibition To a biology of the image, by Clara Carvajal, that has been hosted in several sites: Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC), Tres Culturas Seville Foundation, Casa Árabe Madrid and Casa Árabe Córdoba.

In this period, she conducts the series Looking with women artists and Looking with men artists in El Corte Inglés Ámbito Cultural, encounters with prestigious Spanish photographers and artists she chats with once a month. Some of the participants of these series: Isabel Muñoz, Ouka Leele, Ana Palacios, Pablo Genovés, Javier Riera, Alberto García-Alix, Luis Gordillo, Marisa González, Estela de Castro and Soledad Sevilla.

In 2020, during the COVID19 lockdown, she starts the initiative Visions from fragility, driven by documentalist Yolanda Villaluenga in the TV program 24h. A look at the inseide by big image artists:  José Antonio Carrera, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Soledad Córdoba, Joan Fontcuberta, Cristina García Rodero, Pablo Genovés, Pablo Juliá, Isabel Muñoz, Ana Palacios, Javier Riera, Laura Torrado and Mayte Vieta.

In 2021 she conducts the cycle Constellations: chats with a group of artists linked to the Madrid City Hall Contemporary Art Museum, whether by means of the temporary exhibitions or of the permanent collection: Cristina García Rodero and Eduardo Momeñe; Alicia Martín and Marina Nuñez; Concha Jerez and José Iges; Isidro Blasco and Blanca Muñoz; Paula García-Masedo and Miren Doiz.

In March 2022 she organizes and participates the cycle Fragments of life and art: meetings with the TV2 documentary director, Yolanda Villaluenga, and its protagonists: Soledad Sevilla and Isabel Muñoz. Moderators: Zara Fernández and Marifé Santiago. Festival of Women who transform the world. Segovia. 

2023- She is the curator, together with Ahmad Taheri, of the exhibition La Acera, by Asghar Farhadi, produced and presented at the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela from June to September and in November at La Alhóndiga in Segovia.

Regarding university teaching, since 2015 Zara codirects with José Manuel Lucía Cultural Projects Management, a course that gathers prestigious specialist in the sector in the context of Complutense University Summer School. 

Since 1997 she has been a professor of Spanish as a Foreign Language at Complutense de Madrid University. She has taught language, culture and cinema in several programs:  Madrid campuses of New York University (2007-2008), California Davies University (2007-2014), New Haven University at CEA (2007-2009) and also in Charles University in Prague and Ottawa University (1994-1996). 

 (1) Cultural Association of the Western Mediterranean.