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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Pool, Beaver Gallery, Canberra
2005 Brace, Beaver Gallery, Canberra
2000 Recent Prints & Drawings, Beaver Gallery, Canberra

Drawings, Schloss Haldenstein, Switzerland
1996 Terrain, Beaver Gallery, Canberra
1995 Xylem Drawings, National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT
1992 Recent Drawings, Graphic Gallery, Canberra
1990 The Climbing Series, Alliance Francais, Canberra
1988 Suspended Figures, Giles St Gallery, Canberra
1987 Recent Works, Giles St Gallery, Canberra
1985 Drawings & Collages, Bitumen River Gallery, ACT


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Joseph Banks, A regional Response, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

Half Light, City Museum and Gallery

Loupe, Megalo Arts Access Gallery

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre

Survey,Left Hand Gallery, Braidwood
2009 Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery

Sanbao International Print Exhibition, Shanxi Fine Art College
2008 Barometer, Canberra Glassworks

Vivid, Projection Event, National Library of Australia
2007 Phoenix Art Prize, ANU, School of Art Gallery

Shifting Perspectives, Craft, ACT Gallery

Caring for Land, Australian National Botanic Gardens

Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Art Gallery

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre

Hazlehurst Works on Paper Award, Hazlehurst Gallery

Festival of Contemporary Art, National Library, Aust

Domain, Projection Event CBD, Canberra
2006 Swan Hill Print Award, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2005 Sleep of Reason, Albury Regional Gallery

Hazlehurst Works on Paper, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery

CPM Print Award, Murwillumbah Regional Gallery

Dwell – 24/7, Projection event, High Court Canberra
2004 Beam 2, City Walk, Civic Precinct, Canberra
2003 Calleen Art Prize, Cowra Regional Art Gallery

The Sleep of Reason, Cowra Regional Art Gallery

Discrepant, Projection Event in conjunction with conference on ‘Art and Human Rights’

Beam 1, Projection event, Civic Precinct, Canberra

National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery
2002 The Sleep of Reason, Canberra Museum & Gallery, Canberra Critics Circle Visual Arts Award

Muswellbrook Open Art Award, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery

Albury Art Prize, Fleming Muntz Award, Albury Regional Art Gallery

Following the Sun, Projections, Civic Centre, Canberra ACT

Whyalla, Works on Paper Award
2001 Hazlehurst Works on Paper Award, Sutherland Regional Art Gallery

Fishers Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery
1999 Weerewa, Canberra Museum & Gallery
1998 A Flourishing Ecology, Print Council of Australia, Side Space Gallery, Hobart

Jacaranda Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery

Pacific Representations, University of Canberra
1997 Monga, Photospace, CITA

Kite, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery
1996 A Matter of Making, CSA Gallery

Canberra Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre

Fragile Objects, Australian National Library
1995 Lake Isle, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Wagga Regional Art Gallery, Tweed River Art Gallery, Albury Regional Art Gallery

Kite, Robb St Gallery, Bairnsdale
1994 Jacaranda, Grafton Regional Gallery
1993 Mongrel, Gorman House, Canberra
1992 Treed, Canberra Contemporary Artspace

Compact Art, Ben Grady Gallery
1990 Canbrart, NGA, ANU Drill Hall

Sun, Smoke and Steel, Studio One Touring Print Exhibition
1989 ‘500’, Robb St Gallery

Staff Exhibition, Canberra School of Art Gallery

10-1 Project, Ben Grady Gallery
1985 The Grand Parade, Joint exhibition with Franki Sparke, funded by The Australia Council
1982 Primary Industry, Joint Workshop Exhibition Funded by ARTS ACT
1981 Graduate Printmakers, Contemporary Arts Soc., Adelaide

Prints in Schools, Print Council of Australia

Australian Student Printmakers, Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne

Graduate Printmakers Show, Link Gallery, Canberra
1980 Canberra Printmakers, Stadia Graphics, Sydney


AWARDS
1996/06 Print Council of Australia Member Print Commission
2002 Canberra Critics Circle Visual Arts Award
1998 Botanical drawings commissioned by the Department of Parks and Conservation
1997 Illustrations commissioned for the Department of Parks and Conservation
1996-97 Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Canberra Nature Park
1992 Canberra Critics Circle Visual Arts Award


GRANTS
2003 Cutting Edge Grant, to explore Projection as Public Art Megalo Access Arts & Arts ACT


COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery; Australian National University; Albury Regional Art Gallery; Print Council of Australia; Canson Australia Pty Ltd; Queensland University of Technology; Sydney College of the Arts; Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, QLD; Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of WA; Campbelltown Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Fremantle Art Centre, WA; Central Queensland University; KPMG; Latrobe University Art Gallery, VIC; Private Collections in USA, UK, France and Australia


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 Transcendence and gritty realities, Canberra Times, 13 May, Sasha Grishin
1998 Relief Printmaking, A&C Black Publishing, Ann Westley
1996 Artist is not seduced, Canberra Times, 26 June, Sasha Grishin

Australian Printmakers in the 1990s’, Craftsman House, Sasha Grishin

First Canberra Drawing Biennale, Catalogue essay, Sasha Grishin

Diverse works that blur boundaries, Canberra Times, 16 November, Sasha Grishin
1995 Lake Isle, Catalogue essay, Jennifer Lamb, Goulburn Regional Gallery
1993 Cloudbusting, Catalogue essay, Gordon Bull, CSA Gallery
1992 Drawing 92, Catalogue essay, Julie Ewington, CSA Gallery


PUBLISHED WORKS
2003 A pile of Hair, collaborative book with Julian Davies, Finlay Press
2000 First Thoughts, drawings as a working process, Catalogue essay, Student Drawing Award, EABS
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