Fact Sheet

Born: 1975 Stamford, Connecticut
Education: Yale University, B.A. 1997
Residence: Easton, Connecticut

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:

2013

  • Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass

2012

  • National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC,
  • Spring Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Fall

2011

  • James Prosek: Un-Natural History, Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University
  • James Prosek: Suriname, Gallery at the Whitney, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  • Voyage on Uncanny Seas, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida. 
  • Oceanomania:  Souvenirs from Mysterious Seas, The National Museum, Monaco (Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, NMNM).  Group show curated by Mark Dion.

2010

  • Strange Travelers, curated by Mark Dion, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
  • Mildred’s Lane/Renovating Walden, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
  • Nature, Revisions and Dreams, The Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, curated by Anica Sturdivant
  • Art in Embassies, Group Show, American Embassy, Accra, Ghana, Africa
  • Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum's Katzen Arts Center, curated by Joanna Marsh, Jock Reynolds

2009

  • Real & Imagined, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (catalog)
  • The Peacock and The Cobra, Manhattanville College Art Gallery, Purchase, NY        
  • Breaking the Surface: Painting and Sculpture, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT

2008

  • The Peacock and The Cobra, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

2007

  • Life & Death: A Visual Taxonomy, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  • Air & Water, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX (catalog)
  • Birds & Fish, Wajahat-Ingrao, New York, NY

2006

  • Blind Birds, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, CT

2005

  • Symmetry & Myth, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)

2004

  • Monuments to Nature, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT

2003

  • The Desire of Memory, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • 41 Degrees North, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)

2002

  • Trouts of Asia, Hammond Museum of Japanese Art, South Salem, NY
  • Pris sur le Vif: Les Peintres Pecheurs, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris, France
  • Great American Artists, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (catalog)

2000

  • Prosek, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY

1999

  • James Prosek , Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • James Prosek, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
  • Water Journey, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN

1998

  • James Prosek, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
  • James Prosek, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Fellowships, Grants. Residencies:

2008 - 2011
Visiting artist at Mildred’s Lane Residency, Beach Lake, PA (Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett).

2005
Visiting Artist, Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, Connecticut

2003
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

Films/Documentary:

2013
Eels, Nature, PBS

2002
The Complete Angler, ESPN Original Entertainment

Awards:

2003
George Foster Peabody Award for film The Complete Angler

Public Collections:
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, CT
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, IN
Hammond Museum of Japanese Art, North Salem, NY
Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA
Mildred’s Lane Historical Society Museum, Beach Lake, PA
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Union College Art Collection, Schenectady, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Try-me, Richmond, VA
National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC

Books:
Ocean Fishes (Rizzoli 2012)
Eels:  An Exploration from New Zealand to the Sargasso, of the World’s Most Mysterious Fish (HaperCollins, 2010)
Bird, Butterfly, Eel (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
The Day My Mother Left (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
A Good Day’s Fishing (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Trout of the World (Stewart Tabori and Chang, 2003)
Fly-Fishing the 41st Parallel (HarperCollins, 2003)
Early Love and Book Trout (Lyons Press, 2000)
The Complete Angler:  A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton (HarperCollins, 1998)
Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship (Morrow, 1997)
Trout: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 1996)

  

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