Grisha Bruskin
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Grisha Bruskin (born October 21, 1945)[1] is a Russian artist known as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker.
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.
Exhibitions
- 2012, Grisha Bruskin, H-Hour [1], Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Books
- 2001. Past Imperfect. ISBN 5-86793-121-8 Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye; 2nd ed. 2007.
- 2002. Das Alphabet des Grisha Bruskin. ISBN 3-935414-08-0 Kunsthalle in Emden.
- 2003. Yours Truly. ISBN 5-86793-199-4 Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
- 2005. Letter Follows. ISBN 5-86793-395-4 Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
- 2006. Alefbet. Tapestry. Palace Editions; Russian language edition) ISBN 5-93332-194-X, ISBN 3-938051-42-6.
- 2008. Life is Everywhere. Palace Editions; Russian language edition ISBN 3-935298-00-5; English language edition ISBN 3-935298-00-5.
- 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. ISBN 978-0-8156-0901-8, ISBN 0-8156-0901-9 Syracuse University Press.
- 2010. Alefbet. Tapisserie (English and French languages edition). ISBN 978-2-35906-024-9 Lienart.
- 2011. Towards Bruskin. ISBN 978-5-86793-843-7. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
- 2012. H-Hour (Russian language edition). ISBN 978-5-93977-066-8. Multimedia Art Museum.
- 2013. H-Hour (English language edition) ISBN 978-3-86678-787-2 Kerber Art.
- 2013. Archaeologist's Collection (Russian language edition). ISBN 978-5-9904620-1-4 Breus.
- 2014. Archaeologist's Collection (English language edition). ISBN 978-3-86678-883-1 Kerber Art.
- 2015. Alefbet. Alfabeto della memoria/The Alphabet of Memory. (Italian and English language edition) ISBN 978-88-6322-258-6 Terra ferma.
- 2015. An Archaeologist's Collection. (English language edition) ISBN 978-88-6322-266-1 Terra Ferma.
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- Soviet painters
- Russian Jews
- Soviet emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century Russian painters
- Russian male painters
- 21st-century Russian painters
- Artists from Moscow
- Russian contemporary artists
- Kandinsky Prize
- Moscow State Textile University alumni
- 20th-century Russian male artists
- 21st-century Russian male artists