{{Short description|Australian art historian and art critic}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{use Australian English|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Sasha Grishin | honorific_suffix = AM FAHA | image = Sasha Grishin at ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.jpg | alt = | caption = Grishin at ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark | birth_name = Alexander Dmitrievich Grishin | birth_date = | birth_place = Australia | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Art historian, art critic, curator | education = University of Melbourne | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Alexander "Sasha" Dmitrievich Grishin''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FAHA}} 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.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

==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.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

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<ref>{{Cite web|title=Australian sketchbook: Colonial life and the art of ST Gill|url=https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/australian-sketchbook-exhibition|access-date=2020-08-13|website=State Library Victoria|language=en}}</ref> *''Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions'', National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne 31 August 2018 – 28 January 2019<ref>{{Cite web|title=Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions {{!}} NGV|url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/baldessin-whiteley-parallel-visions/|access-date=2020-08-13|website=www.ngv.vic.gov.au}}</ref>

He has written articles on Ken Tyler,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/493509?c=people|access-date=2020-08-13|website=Trove}}</ref>&nbsp; Bruno Leti,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Director&nbsp;(Research&nbsp;Services&nbsp;Division)|title=Bruno Leti: Six Memos on th...|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/publications/34463|access-date=2020-08-13|website=researchers.anu.edu.au|language=en-US}}</ref> William Robinson,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gallery|first=William Robinson|date=2019-11-01|title=William Robinson: Genesis|url=https://www.wrgallery.qut.edu.au/whats-on/exhibitions/william-robinson-genesis2|access-date=2020-08-13|website=William Robinson Gallery|language=en}}</ref> Garry Shead,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-06-19|title=Garry Shead: Gentle Lyricism|url=https://artcollector.net.au/garry-shead-gentle-lyricism/|access-date=2020-08-13|website=Art Collector Magazine|language=en-AU}}</ref> Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Grishin|first1=Sasha|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6390053|title=Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri: the power of tradition = la puissance de la tradition|last2=Grundmann|first2=Pierre|last3=Jacob|first3=Stéphane|last4=Curtet|first4=Benjamin|last5=Loas-Orsel|first5=Laëtitia|date=2013|publisher=Éditions Arts d'Australie/Stéphane Jacob ; Peta Appleyard Gallery|others=Éditions Arts d'Australie, Peta Appleyard Gallery|isbn=978-2-9544576-1-1|location=Paris : [Alice Springs, Northern Territory]}}</ref> Ruth Faerber,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36747580|access-date=2020-08-13|website=trove.nla.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> Salvatore Zoffrea, Sydney Ball, Mandy Martin, Charles Blackman, &nbsp;Andrew Sibley, and many others.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

In 1977 Grishin became senior art critic for ''The Canberra Times''.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

Grishin's professional archive is held at the National Library of Australia.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

==Recognition and honours== Grishin was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Sasha Grishin |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=384 |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{Citation|title=VI. The Prime Minister and the Cabinet|date=1956-12-31|work=Office of the Prime Minister|pages=192–256|place=Princeton|publisher=Princeton University Press| doi=10.1515/9781400878260-007|isbn=978-1-4008-7826-0}}</ref>

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".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sasha Grishin|url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/sasha-grishin-143423|access-date=2020-08-13 |website=The Conversation |date=31 October 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

A pencil portrait of Grishin by Andrew Sibley is held by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Professor Sasha Grishin AM, b. -1|url=https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/sasha-grishin/|access-date=2020-08-19| website=National Portrait Gallery people}}</ref>

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

*''Australian Art: A history''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Grishin|first=Sasha|date=|title=Australian Art: A history|url=https://www.mup.com.au/authors/sasha-grishin|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-13|website=}}</ref> *''John Wolseley: Land Marks III''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191897835|access-date=2020-08-13|website=trove.nla.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> * ''The Art of John Brack''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Trove|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6028070|access-date=2020-08-13| website=Trove |language=en|quote=''The Art of John Brack'', Melbourne/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990, 2 vols - vol.1 monograph 247 pp.; vol.2 catalogue raisonné 272 pp.|isbn=0-19-553092-6}}</ref>

*''A Pilgrim's Account of Cyprus: Bars'kyj's Travels in Cyprus,''<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Pilgrim's Account of Cyprus: Vasyl Hryhorovyc-Bars'kyj|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/Pilgrims-Account-Cyprus-Vasyl-Hryhorovyc-Barskyj/9780965170437|access-date=2020-08-13|website=www.bookdepository.com}}</ref>

== Personal == Grishin lives in Victoria and Canberra and is married to artist G.W. Bot.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

== References == <references />

== External links ==

* {{Official website|http://www.sashagrishin.com/|name=}} * [https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/grishin-s Australian National University profile]

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