Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, is the author of more than 30 books on art, including Australian Art: A History, and has served as the senior art critic for The Canberra Times for forty-six years between 1977 and 2023. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra, and has served as Guest Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria and the State Library of Victoria. He is an approved valuer for the Arts Cultural Gifts Program of the Australian Government’s Department of Communications and the Arts. 


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ABOUT SASHA GRISHIN

Alexander (Sasha) Grishin AM, FAHA, is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University and works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. 

He studied at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow, London and Oxford and has served several terms as visiting scholar at Harvard University. 

In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, in 2005 was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Australian art and art history and in 2008 was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

He has published over twenty-five books and over two thousand articles, exhibition critiques and catalogue essays dealing with various aspects of art.

In 2013 his massive Australian Art: A history was published by Melbourne University Publishing and in 2015 monographs on John Wolseley (Thames and Hudson), Inge King (Macmillan) and S.T. Gill (National Library of Australia) were published. 

Grishin was born in Melbourne and received his early schooling at the St Albans Primary School and subsequently at the Coburg Primary School, Coburg High School and University High School.  Today he divides his time between Sorrento in Victoria, Canberra, and frequent residencies abroad. 

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Upcoming events for Sasha Grishin

Sasha Grishin is curating the major retrospective exhibition: Leonard Brown: Painting the celestial, Ipswich Art Gallery, Qld, opening March 28, 2026
 
Sasha Grishin is curating major exhibition: Frank Mesaric: Gippsland Gothic, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale opening June 5, 2026
 
Sasha Grishin will deliver the public lectures: ‘Fred Williams at Mittagong’ at the Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, February 6, 2026 and ‘John Brack’s depictions of modern Australian life’ at the AGNSW, September 2/3, 2026 

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