In 2004, Zavros won the Primavera Collex award through the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
[1] The previous year, Zavros was awarded runner up in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a self-portrait entitled V12 Narcissus.
[2] In 2016 Zavros was the recipient of the Mosman Art Prize for a portrait of his daughter entitled Flora.
[9] Zavros has exhibited widely within Australia and his work is held in numerous private and public collections.
[12] He sits on the Queensland College of Art (Griffith University) board.