Grisha Bruskin was born in 1945 in Moscow in the family of professor of the Moscow Energy Institute. In 1968 Bruskin has graduated from the Moscow Textile Institute. Author’s first personal one-day exhibition was opened despite the resistance of the party bodies in 1973, in the House of Artist on Kuznetsky Most. Since the late 1970s Bruskin worked simultaneously on two topics: the myth of Judaism and the Soviet myth. International fame came to Bruskin after the first moscow Sotheby’s auction where his 1986 series "Fundamental Lexicon” were sold for a record for contemporary Russian art prices.
In 1999 Bruskin performed a monumental art project "Life Above All" for the renovated Reichstag in Berlin as the representative of Russia at the invitation of the German government. In 2012 he became the Kandinsky Prize award winner in the Project of the Year nomination for his sculpture project "Time CH". In 2017 Bruskin represented Russia in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of contemporary art.