Grisha Bruskin

Grisha Bruskin (full name Григо́рий Дави́дович Бру́скин, Grigórij Davídovich Brúskin, born October 21, 1945) is a Russian artist known as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker.

Biography He was born in Moscow. Between 1963 and 1968, he studied at the Moscow Textile Institute (Art Department). In 1969, he became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Bruskin's participation in the famous Sotheby's auction in Moscow (1988) brought him worldwide fame when his piece Fundamental Lexicon was sold for a record price.

He relocated to New York in 1988. In 1999, at the invitation of the German government and as a representative of Russia, Bruskin created a monumental triptych, Life Above All, for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. In 2001 he published a memoir-style book, Past Imperfect. In 2012 he received the Kandinsky Prize in the "Project of the Year" category, for his project, H-Hour. Bruskin lives and works in New York and Moscow. He is one of the best-known and most successful contemporary artists of Russian origins.

In 2019 he was awarded the Fiddler on the Roof Award in the Legendary Person category.

Exhibitions

2012, Grisha Bruskin, H-Hour , Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Books 2001. Past Imperfect. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye; 2nd ed. 2007. 2002. Das Alphabet des Grisha Bruskin. Kunsthalle in Emden. 2003. Yours Truly. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye. 2005. Letter Follows. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye. 2006. Alefbet. Tapestry. Palace Editions; Russian language edition).

2008. Life is Everywhere. Palace Editions; Russian language edition ; English language edition . 2008. Direct and Indirect Objects. SBN 978-5-86793-566-5 Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye. 2008. Past Imperfect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist. , Syracuse University Press. 2010. Alefbet. Tapisserie (English and French languages edition). Lienart. 2011. Towards Bruskin. . Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye. 2012. H-Hour (Russian language edition). . Multimedia Art Museum. 2013. H-Hour (English language edition) Kerber Art. 2013. Archaeologist's Collection (Russian language edition). Breus. 2014. Archaeologist's Collection (English language edition). Kerber Art. 2015. Alefbet. Alfabeto della memoria/The Alphabet of Memory. (Italian and English language edition) Terra ferma. 2015. An Archaeologist's Collection. (English language edition) Terra Ferma.