Sasha Grishin Explained

Sasha Grishin
Honorific Suffix:AM FAHA
Birth Name:Alexander Dmitrievich Grishin
Birth Place:Australia
Occupation:Art historian, art critic, curator
Education:University of Melbourne

Alexander "Sasha" Dmitrievich Grishin is an Australian art historian, art critic and curator based in Victoria and Canberra. He is known as an art critic, and for establishing the academic discipline of art history at the Australian National University (ANU).

Early life and history

Grishin is the Australian-born child of Russian parents Dmitry Vladimirovich Grishin and Natalia Dmitrievna Luzgina, who arrived in Melbourne in September 1949. He studied art history at the University of Melbourne, State University of Moscow, London and Oxford.

Career

Grishin established the academic discipline of art history in Canberra, when he founded the Fine Art Program at the Australian National University in 1977. In 1987 this program became the Department of Art History.

As curator, Grishin has been responsible for a number of exhibitions, including:

He has written articles on Ken Tyler,[3]   Bruno Leti,[4] William Robinson,[5] Garry Shead,[6] Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri[7] Ruth Faerber[8] Salvatore Zoffrea, Sydney Ball, Mandy Martin, Charles Blackman,  Andrew Sibley, and many others.

In 1977 Grishin became senior art critic for The Canberra Times.

Grishin's professional archive is held at the National Library of Australia.

Recognition and honours

Grishin was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2004.[9] In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the visual arts and to contemporary Australian artists as an educator, critic and writer, and as an art historian".

In 2008, he was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, for "the creation of innovative and vocationally orientated methods of teaching art history and curatorship".[10]

A pencil portrait of Grishin by Andrew Sibley is held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.[11]

Publications

Grishin has written on many art-related topics. Published titles include:

Personal

Grishin lives in Victoria and Canberra and is married to artist G.W. Bot.

References

  1. Web site: Australian sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of ST Gill. 2020-08-13. State Library Victoria. en.
  2. Web site: Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions NGV. 2020-08-13. www.ngv.vic.gov.au.
  3. Web site: Trove. 2020-08-13. Trove.
  4. Web site: Director (Research Services Division). Bruno Leti: Six Memos on th.... 2020-08-13. researchers.anu.edu.au. en-US.
  5. Web site: Gallery. William Robinson. 2019-11-01. William Robinson: Genesis. 2020-08-13. William Robinson Gallery. en.
  6. Web site: 2007-06-19. Garry Shead: Gentle Lyricism. 2020-08-13. Art Collector Magazine. en-AU.
  7. Book: Grishin. Sasha. Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri: the power of tradition = la puissance de la tradition. Grundmann. Pierre. Jacob. Stéphane. Curtet. Benjamin. Loas-Orsel. Laëtitia. 2013. Éditions Arts d'Australie/Stéphane Jacob ; Peta Appleyard Gallery. Éditions Arts d'Australie, Peta Appleyard Gallery. 978-2-9544576-1-1. Paris : [Alice Springs, Northern Territory].
  8. Web site: Trove. 2020-08-13. trove.nla.gov.au. en.
  9. Web site: Fellow Profile: Sasha Grishin . 2024-05-29 . Australian Academy of the Humanities . en-AU.
  10. Web site: Sasha Grishin. 2020-08-13 . . 31 October 2014 . en.
  11. Web site: Professor Sasha Grishin AM, b. -1. 2020-08-19. National Portrait Gallery people.
  12. Web site: Grishin. Sasha. Australian Art: A history. 2020-08-13.
  13. Web site: Trove. 2020-08-13. trove.nla.gov.au. en.
  14. Book: Trove. 2020-08-13. . en. The Art of John Brack, Melbourne/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, 2 vols - vol.1 monograph 247 pp.; vol.2 catalogue raisonné 272 pp.. 0-19-553092-6.
  15. Web site: A Pilgrim's Account of Cyprus: Vasyl Hryhorovyc-Bars'kyj. 2020-08-13. www.bookdepository.com.

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