Grisha Bruskin (full name Григо́рий Дави́дович Бру́скин, Grigórij Davídovich Brúskin, born October 21, 1945)[ Biography. Marlborough Gallery.] 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
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2012, Grisha Bruskin, H-Hour [2], Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Books
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2001. Past Imperfect. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye; 2nd ed. 2007.
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2002. Das Alphabet des Grisha Bruskin. Kunsthalle in Emden.
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2003. Yours Truly. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
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2005. Letter Follows. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
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2006. Alefbet. Tapestry. Palace Editions; Russian language edition) , .
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2008. Life is Everywhere. Palace Editions; Russian language edition ; English language edition .
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2008. Direct and Indirect Objects. SBN 978-5-86793-566-5 Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
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2008. Past Imperfect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist. , Syracuse University Press.
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2010. Alefbet. Tapisserie (English and French languages edition). Lienart.
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2011. Towards Bruskin. . Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye.
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2012. H-Hour (Russian language edition). . Multimedia Art Museum.
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2013. H-Hour (English language edition) Kerber Art.
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2013. Archaeologist's Collection (Russian language edition). Breus.
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2014. Archaeologist's Collection (English language edition). Kerber Art.
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2015. Alefbet. Alfabeto della memoria/The Alphabet of Memory. (Italian and English language edition) Terra ferma.
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2015. An Archaeologist's Collection. (English language edition) Terra Ferma.
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