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Alexander "Sasha" Dmitrievich Grishin 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).

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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.[ citation needed ]

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.[ citation needed ]

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

Sasha Grishin at ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.jpg

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.[ citation needed ]

In 1977 Grishin became senior art critic for The Canberra Times .[ citation needed ]

Grishin's professional archive is held at the National Library of Australia.[ citation needed ]

Recognition and honours

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". [9]

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.[ citation needed ]

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