Meet the Zavros's

As the first major public exhibition in Aotearoa New Zealand surveying the career of Michael Zavros, Meet the Zavros’s invites audiences into the world of the artist and his family – or so it would seem. Traversing the line between fact and fiction, this exhibition introduces Zavros’s practice through the people, places and subjects that have preoccupied his work across decades. Across painting, photography, sculpture and moving image, Meet the Zavros’s navigates some of the central tensions of his work – the intersections of art, identity, beauty, desire, and commodity; the authenticity of public life; and the space between artifice and reality. This exhibition also includes a new site-specific commission produced on residency in Ōtepoti Dunedin as part of the Gallery’s International Visiting Artist Programme.