Michael Zavros
painter and artist (born 1974)
Michael Zavros is an Australian artist.
Early life and education
Zavros studied printmaking at Queensland College of Art in the 1990s.
Awards
Zavros has won three Australian drawing prizes: The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award in 2002, The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize in 2005 and the Kedumba Prize in 2007. In 2004, Zavros won the Primavera Collex award through the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
In 2010 Zavros won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of his child Phoebe is Dead/McQueen. The previous year, Zavros was awarded runner up in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a self-portrait entitled V12 Narcissus. In 2012 he won the inaugural Bulgari Art Award, which included the acquisition of his work The new Round Room by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
In 2016 Zavros was the recipient of the Mosman Art Prize for a portrait of his daughter entitled Flora.
He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2022.
Collections
Zavros has exhibited widely within Australia and his work is held in numerous private and public collections.
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