Grisha JOY was born in Moscow in 1983.
He studied at art school. In 2005 he graduated from Moscow State University of Railway Engineering with a degree in reconstruction of railway bridges and tunnels, and with an additional degree in “Architecture of the transport environment". He worked as a specialist at the research laboratory, was engaged in the development of projects for the reconstruction of railway bridges. He worked as a decorator and installer in the Central Department Store, and took private painting lessons.

In 2010-2012 he studied Art Photography at the British Higher School of Design. He worked with film photos, hand-printed b/w photos and video art. In 2022-2024 he took the course “New Artistic Strategies” at I.Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art. He is an active participant of exhibitions, including performances. He works in the genre of installation (including site-specific) and abstract painting.

As an interdisciplinary artist he is engaged in search and reflection of the forms and ways emotional, sensual and unconscious can be fixed as visual images. His principles of creativity are based on meditative states, automatism of actions, probability and randomness, alternating with a prudent analytical approach. He uses expressionistic and minimalist techniques in painting. In performances he works with such concepts as cyclicity and infinity.