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http://www.michaelzavros.com/ brisbane , australia queensland college of art doug bulgari art award 2012 the new round room moran national portrait prize 2010 phoebe is dead/mcqueen australian michael zavros painting visual for the arts arts and craft board of the australia council 1974 michael zavros
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michael zavros

michael zavros -lrb- born , brisbane , australia , 1974 -rrb- is an australian artist .
zavros studied printmaking at queensland college of art in the 1990s .
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 .
he was a finalist in the archibald prize in 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2009 and 2013 .
zavros has exhibited widely within australia and his work is held in numerous private and public collections .
