Painter: Grishin Alexander Borisovich

The painter-artist Alexander Grishin was born in 1959 in the village of Kalya, Sverdlovsk Region. Educated in 1987-1993 at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I. E. Repina (St. Petersburg). After that, he received additional education in 1993–1997 already at the Russian Academy of Arts, a creative workshop of monumental painting under the guidance of Acad. A. A. Mylnikova. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Union of Artists. In 1994 Alexander received a "TOTAL NORGE" scholarship from the Norwegian-Russian Art Center in Kirkenes, Norway. Today he is a professor at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts named after I.E. Repin, Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Alexander's works are in the Museum of the Academy of Arts of St. Petersburg, the Savio Museum (Kirkenes, Norway), in the Historical Museum of Limassol, CYPR and in the collection of the Service Bank Fund (St. Petersburg). Also, the author's works can be found in galleries and private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Norway, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, USA, China, Switzerland.

• 1992 - solo exhibition at the gallery "Nevsky 20" (St. Petersburg)
• 1993 - exhibition of diplomas of the Academy of Arts (St. Petersburg)
• 1993-2000 - joint exhibitions with the MOST group in Russia, Norway and Germany, ("Weekend Gallery" Berlin, "Altana Rathaus" Hamburg, "Oscar Helene Heim" Berlin, etc.)
• 1994 - Chakpon Charlie auction at the Berlin Wall Museum (Berlin, Germany)
• 1995 - exhibition at the Hazelmere Museum (England)
• 1995 - exhibition at the NRHC (Kirkenes, Norway)
• 1995 - exhibition at the Russian Embassy (Oslo, Norway)
• 1995 - exhibition at the “Berliner Fernsenturm” (Berlin)
• 1996 - exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin)
• Since 1995 - collaboration with the gallery "MIRO" (Prague, Bratislava, Berlin)
• Since 1995 - participation in regular exhibitions "Artists of Russia", organized by Julian and Lote Ravest in various galleries in the UK.
• 1996 - exhibition at the Central House of Artists "Kirkenes-St. Petersburg-Moscow" (Moscow)
• 1997 - exhibition of fellows of the NRHC (Kirkenes, Oslo, Trondheim, Norway; St. Petersburg)
• 1997 - exhibition at Brandenburgescheboden (Wünsdorf, Germany)
• 1997 - exhibition at the Central House of Artists "Izmereniya" (Moscow)
• Since 1997 - a permanent participant of autumn and spring exhibitions in the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg
• Since 1998 - a regular participant in exhibitions of teachers of the Academy of Arts (SPB)
• 1999 – exhibition at “Konrad Gallery” (Svolvær Lufuten, Norway)
• 2000 – exhibition at the gallery “3 Somme” (Oslo, Norway)
• 2001 - exhibition "St. Petersburg - Moscow" (Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg; Central House of Artists, Moscow)
• 2002 - anniversary exhibition of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg (Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg)
• 2003 - exhibition "Artists to the City" (Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg)
• 2003 – exhibition at the Borderland Museum (Kirkenes, Norway)
• 2003 - exhibition "Landscape and still life" in the cultural center of Gersfeld (Germany)
• 2004 - exhibition "Island" in the cultural center of Imatra (Finland)
• 2004 – exhibition “Sehstuecke” in “Galerie des Jungen Kunstkreises” (Hünfeld, Germany)
• 2005 – exhibition at the center “Pikene po Broen” (Kirkenes, Norway)
• 2006 – exhibition at the gallery “Heimgordsbruga” (Henningsvaer, Norway)
• 2007 - Art index. Contemporary art of St. Petersburg
• 2008 - exhibition 75 years of St. Petersburg Union of Artists "Traditions and Innovation" Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg
• 2009 - exhibition "703". Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg
• 2011 - exhibition in the Cultural Center of Limassol (Cyprus)
• 2011 - solo exhibition (LOFOTEN) "Blue living room" St. Petersburg Union of Artists
• 2012 - exhibition in the Atrium of the Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg
• 2012 - Anniversary exhibition 80 years of St. Petersburg Union of Artists, Manege St. Petersburg
• 2012 - exhibition at the Russian House, Belgrade Serbia
• 2012 - exhibition Art of NATIONS-2, Central House of Artists Moscow
• 2013 - exhibition World through the eyes of Russian artists (Cyprus, Bulgaria, Serbia) marble hall of the Ethnographic Museum St. Petersburg
• 2013 – exhibition Czech Republic through the eyes of Russian artists, Russian House of Science and Art Prague
• 2013 – ICIF2013 International Art Exhibition, Shenzhen China
• 2013 - Exhibition (Russian North), Syktyvkar Komi Republic

• 2003 - Medal 300 years since the founding of St. Petersburg.
• 2008 - Medal for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.
• 2009 - Gold Medal "Petersburg Personality".
• 2012 - Silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts
• 2013 - Gratitude of the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg