Sasha Grishin

Emeritus Professor Alexander (Sasha) Dmitrievich Grishin AM FAHA is an art historian, art critic and curator based in Victoria and Canberra, Australia. He 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. Grishin also works as an art critic and since 1977 is the senior art critic for the Canberra Times.

Biography

Grishin is the Australian-born child of Russian parents Dmitry Vladimirovich Grishin and Natalia Dmitrievna Luzgina who had arrived in Melbourne in September 1949. He studied art history at the University of Melbourne, State University of Moscow, London and Oxford. He has written on many art subjects and published 25 books. Titles include Australian Art: A history,[1] John Wolseley: Land Marks III,[2] and The Art of John Brack.[3] Apart from his publications on Australian and European modern and contemporary art, Grishin has published on Byzantine art and Russian icons, including A Pilgrim's Account of Cyprus: Bars'kyj's Travels in Cyprus,[4]

As curator, Grishin has been responsible for a number of exhibitions including Australian Sketchbook: Colonial Life and the Art of S.T. Gill, State Library of Victoria, 17 July – 25 October 2015 and subsequently shown at the National Library of Australia[5] and Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne 31 August 2018 – 28 January 2019.[6] Grishin's professional archive is held at the National Library of Australia.

Grishin has written articles on Ken Tyler,[7]  Bruno Leti,[8] William Robinson,[9] Garry Shead,[10] Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri[11] Ruth Faerber[12] Salvatore Zoffrea, Sydney Ball, Mandy Martin, Charles Blackman,  Andrew Sibley, and many others.

Grishin was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2004. 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".[13] In 2008, he was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning & Teaching Council: "For the creation of innovative and vocationally orientated methods of teaching art history and curatorship" 2008.[14]

A pencil portrait of Grishin by Andrew Sibley is held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.[15]

Personal

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

References
  1. Grishin, Sasha. "Australian Art: A history". Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  2. "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  3. Trove. trove.nla.gov.au. ISBN 0-19-553092-6. Retrieved 2020-08-13. The Art of John Brack, Melbourne/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, 2 vols - vol.1 monograph 247 pp.; vol.2 catalogue raisonné 272 pp.
  4. "A Pilgrim's Account of Cyprus : Vasyl Hryhorovyc-Bars'kyj". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  5. "Australian sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of ST Gill". State Library Victoria. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  6. "Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions | NGV". www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  7. "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  8. Director (Research Services Division). "Bruno Leti: Six Memos on th..." researchers.anu.edu.au. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  9. Gallery, William Robinson (2019-11-01). "William Robinson: Genesis". William Robinson Gallery. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  10. "Garry Shead: Gentle Lyricism". Art Collector Magazine. 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  11. Grishin, Sasha; Grundmann, Pierre; Jacob, Stéphane; Curtet, Benjamin; Loas-Orsel, Laëtitia (2013). Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri: the power of tradition = la puissance de la tradition. Éditions Arts d'Australie, Peta Appleyard Gallery. Paris : [Alice Springs, Northern Territory]: Éditions Arts d'Australie/Stéphane Jacob ; Peta Appleyard Gallery. ISBN 978-2-9544576-1-1.
  12. "Trove". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  13. "VI. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet", Office of the Prime Minister, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 192–256, 1956-12-31, doi:10.1515/9781400878260-007, ISBN 978-1-4008-7826-0
  14. "Sasha Grishin". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  15. "Professor Sasha Grishin AM, b. -1". National Portrait Gallery people. Retrieved 2020-08-19.
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