Alexander [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 and has served as the Art Critic at the Canberra Times for over forty years.
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.
Sasha was awarded an AM in the Queen's Birthday List of 2005
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Grishin
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 and has served as the Art Critic at the Canberra Times for over forty years.
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.
Sasha was awarded an AM in the Queen's Birthday List of 2005
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasha_Grishin
Sasha spoke to us about his early days and his time at Coburg High School.
"I was born in St Albans, my parents, as Russian intellectuals, spent time in Nazi concentration camps and were grateful to escape to Australia. St Albans was rough and violent neighbourhood and one of the happiest days of my life was when the family moved to Coburg in 1960. CHS was a welcoming environment with competent teachers and a spirited cohort of students. I learnt a lot, but they were also fun years.
After a few years, I sat a few exams and got into University High School and eventually chose an art/academic career establishing the discipline of Art History at the Australian National University – teaching, publishing, curating exhibitions … When I ceased full-time undergraduate teaching, you guessed it, I bought a small bolthole in Coburg – you can take the boy out of Coburg, but you cannot take Coburg out of the boy. I came from an economically poor, but culturally rich family background, CHS gave me the hope that it was possible to struggle, study, have fun and build a career in a field in which I am passionate."
Sasha can be contacted through his web site www.sashagrishin.com
"I was born in St Albans, my parents, as Russian intellectuals, spent time in Nazi concentration camps and were grateful to escape to Australia. St Albans was rough and violent neighbourhood and one of the happiest days of my life was when the family moved to Coburg in 1960. CHS was a welcoming environment with competent teachers and a spirited cohort of students. I learnt a lot, but they were also fun years.
After a few years, I sat a few exams and got into University High School and eventually chose an art/academic career establishing the discipline of Art History at the Australian National University – teaching, publishing, curating exhibitions … When I ceased full-time undergraduate teaching, you guessed it, I bought a small bolthole in Coburg – you can take the boy out of Coburg, but you cannot take Coburg out of the boy. I came from an economically poor, but culturally rich family background, CHS gave me the hope that it was possible to struggle, study, have fun and build a career in a field in which I am passionate."
Sasha can be contacted through his web site www.sashagrishin.com