Grisha Bruskin

Painter, graphic, sculptor, object artist, installation artist. Born in the family of David Bruskin in Moscow (1945). Graduated from the Moscow Secondary School of Art (1963) and studied at the Moscow Textile Institute (1963–68). Member of the Union of Artists (1969). Worked on the Lexicon and Alephbet cycles (from 1983). Came to public attention when Fundamental Lexicon sold for a record sum at the first ever auction of modern Soviet art held by Sotheby’s in Moscow (1988). Collaborated with the Marlborough Gallery and held a series of one-man shows in New York (from 1988). Moved into three-dimensional space and took up sculpture (1990s). Invited by the German government to contribute a panel to the reconstructed Reichstag building in Berlin (1999). Lives and works in New York (since 1988). Contributed to many national and international group exhibitions, including the General Instructions installation with Lev Rubinstein at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and Russian Museum in St Petersburg (1993), Life is Everywhere project at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001) and one-man shows at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1976) and the Marlboro Gallery in New York (from 1988).