Marilena Zamboura was born in 1954 in Athens. She studied engraving at the Athens school of Fine Arts (1972 – 1977) under K. Grammatopoulos, and continued in Paris at the École des Beaux-arts (1977 – 1978) under R. Gili.

She has held solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Athens, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Bremen, etc.) and has participated in several group exhibitions (Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Russia and Brazil). She participated in the Pan-Hellenic exhibition of 1987, in the exhibition The Child in Greek Art (National Gallery, Athens 1995), in Art Athina 1995 etc. She is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece.