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September 2008
Trophy Hunter opens at Philip Bacon Gallery
Michael's work is featured in the September issue of Vogue Living
Michael's Weeping Willow is featured on the September cover of Australian Art Almanac
August 2008
Artist Profile magazine feature an interview with Michael
July 2008
Sophie Gannon Gallery hosts a solo exhibition of Michael's work at the Melbourne Art Fair
University of Queensland acquire Michael's painting 1820's Regency leather sofa/Favela chair/Champion dachsund 'Windkiedach Wiggle'/a Dale Frank
April 2008

Wollongong City Art Gallery have acquired Michael's work

There Goes A Narwhal opens at University of Queensland Art Museum  featuring Michael, Nell and Lionel Bawden



February 2008

There Goes A Narwhal opens at Gertrude St Contemporary Art Spaces featuring Michael and Nell

Michael is interviewed on ABC Sunday Arts discussing Andy Warhol

January 2008

Michael's work is featured in Dazed and Confused Vol 1 #7 

December 2007

Michael's work is featured in a group show at GRANTPIRRIE with Judith Wright, Sam Smith and Todd Macmillan

Michael is the cover story for both UQ news and City News magazines

November 2007

Michael's self Portrait Debaser/Dolce and Gabbana is a finalist in UQ Art Museum's innaugral Artist Self Portrait Prize

Michael is featured on ABC TV Sunday Arts

October 2007

Michael has been awarded The Kedumba Drawing Award for 2007 for his work Debaser/ Dries Van Noten.

Michael has been appointed to the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

Heart Of Glass opens at Sophie Gannon Gallery

Michael's portrait of outgoing President Dr Russell Stitz commissioned by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is unveiled

September 2007

Michael will be represented in Sydney by GRANTPIRRIE Gallery

Human featuring Michael's work opens at Housprojects, New York

August 2007

Michael is a finalist in University of Queensland's Inaugural National Artists' Self Portrait Prize

Michael's work is featured in Art and Australia

Bloodlines: Art and the Horse opens at Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery

July 2007 

Michael will be represented in Brisbane by Philip Bacon Galleries

June 2007 

Michael's work is a finalist in the Kedumba Drawing Award

Michael is profiled in The Art Market Report

May 2007

Michael Zavros will no longer be represented by Art Galleries Schubert, Gold Coast, Qld

New Nature featuring Michael's work opens at  Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Michael's work opens at Johnston Gallery, Perth containing the new sculpture Black Ice

April 2007
Michael's work is featured in the April issue of Vogue Australia
 
Pants down, surprise!, opens at In-Transit Gallery, Portside Wharf, Brisbane

Zavros work opens new In-Transit Gallery

March 2007
Egoiste is reviewed in The Australian by Sebastian Smee

Click here for the review

The Waiting One is included in 15 Years Of Urban Art Projects at QUT Museum, Brisbane
 
Michael's work is featured in the Spanish fashion magazine H magazine
 
Michael's solo exhibition EGOISTE opens at Wollongong City Gallery
 
February 2007
The Waiting One is included in Sculpture And The Figure at Rex Irwin Gallery
 
Michael is featured in map magazine
 
December 2006
Australian Art Collector lists Michael in the top 50 most collectable artists for the third time
 
October 2006
Michael's painting  Et in Arcadia Ergo has been purchased by Gold Coast City Art Gallery
 
Sophie Gannon Gallery opens in Melbourne including paintings and a new bronze sculpture by Michael entitled The Waiting One. Click here for installation images
 
Falling August has been acquired by the Grafton Regional Art Gallery through the 2006 Jacaranda Drawing Award
 
Michael's 2005 Archibald finalist work Portrait of Alex Dimitriades has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery
 
Michael's work is featured in the online magazine Nothing Magazine
 
September 2006
Michael will no longer be represented by Mori Gallery in Sydney
 
Michael's painting Yves Saint Laurent Le Smoking/ Bay is selected as a finalist in the Kilgour Prize at Newcastle Region Art Gallery
 
Deka hosted a Brisbane preview of Michael's work for the opening of Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne. Click here for link to the preview night
 
August 2006
Michael's drawing Falling August is selected as a finalist in the 2006 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award at Grafton Regional Gallery
 
Michael's work is a finalist in the Kedumba Drawing Award
 
July 2006
Michael's work is included in SOLD The Gold Coast Real Estate Dream at Gold Coast City Art Gallery
 
Michael's work is included in Colonial To Contemporary at QCA Dell Gallery
 
June 2006
Michael will show with Nell at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in February 2008
 
Michael's work Spring/Fall 11 is featured on the cover of The Best Australian Poetry 2006 published by UQ Press

Click here to view the cover

May 2006
Michael's solo exhibition This Charming Man opens at 24HRArt in Darwin, May 12 - June 17

Click here to view This Charming Man catalogue

Michael's work is featured in VOGUE Australia
 
April 2006
 
March 2006
Michael's work is featured in the exhibition New Objectivity at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne  5 - 29 April
 
Michael's self portrait entitled Michael Zavros can't paint/the wind is whistling through the house is selected as a finalist in the 2006 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales 25 March - 28 May
 
February 2006
Michael's work features in Animals as Allegory, QUT Art Museum, QUT, Brisbane 2 February - 9 April
 
January 2006
Michael takes up residency in Australia Council Barcelona studio for three months
 
Australian Art Collector lists Michael in the top 50 most collectable artists for the second time. (January to March, Issue 35)
 
November 2005
Michael wins Robert Jacks Drawing Prize at Bendigo Regional Gallery