Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, who works internationally as an art historian, art critic and curator. He studied at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow, London and Oxford and has served several terms as visiting scholar at Harvard University.

In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, in 2005 he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Australian art and art history and in 2008 was awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. He has published over thirty books and over two thousand articles and catalogue essays dealing with various aspects of art.

In 2013 his massive Australian Art: A History wa published by Melbourne University Publishing, in 2015 appeared his monographs on John Wolseley (Thames and Hudson), Inge King (Macmillan) and S. T. Gill (National Library of Australia) and in 2022 his books on Erwin Fabian, Murray Walker and Joyce Evans.