Grisha Bruskin

Grisha Bruskin studied at Moscow State Textile University. The recorded working language is Russian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Moscow and New York City. Work by Grisha Bruskin is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and Museum Ludwig.

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.

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