Thematic explorations of Michael Zavros’ idealised imagery which has developed alongside Australia’s pronounced turn to conspicuous consumption and aspirational individualism....
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Michael Zavros: Z Garden
Michael Zavros continues his poignant investigation of contemporary self-portraiture within the canon of art history and beyond, focusing on what this artform means in 2021....
Museum of Brisbane | Where I Belong
'Where I Belong', hosted by Wendy Love, features previously unheard stories about Brisbane, its people; set to inspire listeners to explore the great South East....
Melbourne Art Fair: Online Viewing Rooms
Melbourne Art Foundation in partnership with Ocula presents a new digital viewing platform, showcasing artworks intended for this year’s Melbourne Art Fair....
Michael Zavros
This monograph, simply titled 'Michael Zavros', showcases the artist's broad practice – from hyper-realistic paintings, photography and sculpture to film and performance – with over 120 images of still life arrangements, self-portraits, Greek mythology, men's fashion, and gilded interior design....
Thirty-two Hadley’s Art Prize finalists announced
The Hadley’s Art Prize is an annual, acquisitive Australian landscape prize, which offers $100,000 to the winning entry....
Michael Zavros: Magic Mike
Zavros has worked as co-curator with Newcastle Art Gallery to re-contextualise early work, alongside new pieces created for the show which explores male beauty with a tongue in cheek title that refers to both virtuoso painting and ‘magic’ realism as well as a Hollywood blockbuster film...
Michael Zavros wins the 2016 Mosman Art Prize
This year there have been a number of high profile entrants in the Mosman Art Prize, and the winner is no exception....
2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object
Taking inspiration from the Wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities), the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’s ‘Magic Object’ delves into a world of wonder and enchantment as seen through the eyes of twenty-plus Australian contemporary artists. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) and curated...
Michael Zavros: The Prince
Spanning more than 15 years of the artist’s practice, this exhibition brings together the Prince/Zavros series of drawings and paintings with recent paintings of interiors, earlier works of men’s fashion drawn from commercial advertising and ‘TV’ paintings....
Michael Zavros: The Glass
In the work of Michael Zavros, collected reflectively in this exhibition, ‘The Glass’, the mirror reoccurs as a visual and metaphoric trope, a device through which we may literally view the artist’s work as either a narcissistic folly or a serious meditation on self-criticism....