EDUCATION
1997 BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

UPCOMING EXHIBITION
2024 The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at University of Oklahoma
2023 Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
2023 The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, Florida
2023 Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina 2023 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
2022 Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2022 Museum of Art - Deland, Deland, Florida.
2022 Sun Valley Museum of Art, Sun Valley, Idaho
2022 Brandywine Museum of Art, Brandywine, PA

EXHIBITION 2020 In Profile: A Look at Silhouettes, New York Historical Society Museum
2020 James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, Yale University Art Gallery 2019 A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in 19th-Century America, Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts
2019 To See the Forest and the Trees, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong
2019 Yellowstone: Invisible Boundaries, Natural History Museum of Utah, Utah
2019 Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art, Florence Griswold Museum, CT
2019 Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, Biennale Arte 2019, Collateral Events, 58th International Art Exhibition
2019 Ely Center of Contemporary Art, Water Acess, Group show curated by Fritz, CT
2019 James Prosek: Contra Naturam / Against Nature, Lowe Art Museum, FL
2018 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, Picadilly, UK
2018 CC XX: Collectors Circle 20th Anniversary, 1998-2018, Celebrate 20 years of special art acquisitions in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
2018 Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
2018 Avifauna: Birds + Habitat, Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery & On the Grounds, NY
2018 The ART of illustration, Giertz Gallery at Parkland College, Champaign, IL
2017 Fife Arms Hotel, Upper Deeside, Scottish Highlands, Artist-in-Residence supported by The Fife Arms Hotel, and Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Braemar, Scotland
2017 Invisible Boundaries, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, CT
2017 The Inexhaustible Regions of Nature, A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, CT
2017 James Prosek, Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity), NY
2017 Fish Tales: Stories and Legends from the Deep, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
2017 Commission for US Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan, U.S. Department of State, Art in Embassies, Installed 2017
2017 Yellowstone: Wilderness in a Box, The Art of James Prosek, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Wyoming
2017 James Prosek: Recent Works, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Abstract Fish No. 4, Bronze, Installed in the Larry Wheeler Pool, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
2016 Invisible Boundaries, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Wyoming
2016 James Prosek Watercolors, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art,
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT
2016 The Nest, an exhibition of Art in Nature, Beitzel and Righter Galleries
Katonah Museum of Art, NY
2016 Rare Bird: John James Audubon and Contemporary Art, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
2016 Invisible Boundaries, National Geographic Magazine Headquarters, Washington, DC
2015 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, 20th Retrospective:Highlights From The Past 20 Years, Mathews Park, Norwalk, CT
2015 James Prosek: Ocean Fishes, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
2015  Field Guide: James Prosek's Un/Natural World, North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh, North Carolina
2015 Art in Embassies, U.S. Embassy, Abuja, Nigeria, Curated by Virginia Shore
2015 James Prosek: Walk in the Woods, Leslie Feely Gallery, in association with Schwartz-Wajahat, NY
2015 Light/Dark, White/Black, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2014 The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
2014 James Prosek: Wall of Silhouettes, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University,NY
2014 Beyond Eden: The Work of James Prosek, The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
The Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, IL
2014 Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art, Hudson River Museum, NY
2014 James Prosek: Three Americans, 2014, Arnot Art Museum, Falck Gallery—West Wing Ground Level, NY
2014 Ocean Fishes: the Art of James Prosek, Woods Hole Historical Museum, MA
2014 The Animal Heart, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich Free Academy, CT
2014 James Prosek: Wondrous Strange, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT
2014 Art 14, Olympia Grand, London
2014 Audubon and the Art of Birds, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY,
Sam Noble Museum, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman
2014 Like a Bird: Avian Ecologies in Contemporary Art, Trafó Gallery of Contemporary Art, Budapest
2014 The Peacock and the Cobra: James Prosek among the Arts of South Asia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wood Gallery 227
2013 Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brooklyn
2013 Teaming with Nature: James Prosek, The Forrest E. Mars, Sr. Exhibit Hall
National Sporting Library & Museum, Middleburg, Virginia
2013 James Prosek: The Spaces in Between, Addison Gallery of American Art, MA
Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence 2013 Tandem Pursuits: Armor & Ichthyology, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill public garden & cultural center, Bronx, NY
2013 First Look: Collecting for Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries
2013 James Prosek: Ocean Fishes, The Gallery at The Nature Conservancy
The Center for Conservation, East Hampton, NY
2013 James Prosek: The Swordfish, Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, MA
2013 James Prosek: Ocean Fishes, Birds and Curiosities, National Arts Club, NY
2013 James Prosek: Abstract Nature, Mark W. Potter Gallery, Taft school, Watertown, CT
2013 Domestic, Wild, Divine: Arstists Look at Animals, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2012 James Prosek: Ocean Fishes, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2012 MoMA Studio: Common Senses,Mildred’s Lane and the Mildred’s Complexity
2012 Ocean Fishes and Taxonomy, National Academy of Sciences
2012 1708 Gallery, Catch 22, 22nd annual art auction, event chair
2012 Ocean Fishes, Yale University, Kroon Hall
2012 James Prosek, Marc Petrovic, Mark Messersmith,J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2011 James Prosek: Un-Natural History, Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University
2011 James Prosek: Suriname, Gallery at the Whitney, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011 Voyage on Uncanny Seas, Gallery Diet, Miami, Florida
2011 Oceanomania: Souvenirs from Mysterious Seas,The National Museum, Monaco
2011 Flowers, group show, Summer 2011, Schwartz • Wajahat, NY
2010 Strange Travelers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY 2010 Mildred’s Lane/Renovating Walden, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2010 Nature, Revisions and Dreams, The Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University, FL
2010 Art in Embassies, Group Show, American Embassy, Accra, Ghana, Africa
2010 Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum's Katzen Arts Center
2009 Real & Imagined, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 The Peacock and The Cobra, Manhattanville College Art Gallery, Purchase, NY
2009 Breaking the Surface: Painting and Sculpture, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
2008 The Peacock and The Cobra, Center for Contempora d d ry Printmaking, CT
2008 Etchings, Manhattanville College Art Gallery, Purchase, NY
2007 Life & Death: A Visual Taxonomy, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2007 Air & Water, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Birds & Fish, Wajahat-Ingrao, NY
2006 Blind Birds, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, CT
2005 Symmetry & Myth, Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Monuments to Nature, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2003 The Desire of Memory, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
2003 41 Degrees North, Gerald Peters Gallery, NY
2002 Trouts of Asia, Hammond Museum of Japanese Art, South Salem, NY
2002 Pris sur le Vif: Les Peintres Pecheurs, Galerie Larock-Granoff, Paris, France
2002 Great American Artists, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH
2000 James Prosek, Gerald Peters Gallery, NY
1999 James Prosek, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 James Prosek, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1999 Water Journey, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
1998 James Prosek, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
1998 James Prosek, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

FELLOWSHIPS,GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2018 Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery
2018 Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Garner Museum
2017 Upper Deeside, Scottish Highlands
Artist-in-Residence supported by The Fife Arms Hotel, and Hauser & Wirth Gallery
2013 Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, in artist’s apartment designed by David Ireland
Rockwell Visiting Artist, Taft School, Watertown, CT
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2008 Visiting artist at Mildred’s Lane, 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 The Mystery of Eels, “Nature,” PBS 2012 Picture the Leviathan. 2002 The Complete Angler, ESPN Original Entertainment

AWARDS
2012 Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art, awarded by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2003 George Foster Peabody Award for documentary film The Complete Angler

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Asia Society Hong Kong Center Bellarmine Museum of Art, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Buffalo Bill Center of the West Collection of Art in Embassies/US Department of State/US Embassy, Abuja, Nigeria Collection of Art in Embassies/US Department of State/US Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan Cornell Lab of Ornithology Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, evansville, IN Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT Florida Department of State Art Collection Hammond Museum of Japanese Art, North Salem, NY Henry l. Ferguson Museum, Fishers Island, NY Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, PA Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL Mildred’s lane Historical Society Museum, Beach lake, PA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Smithsonian American Art Museum Smithsonian National Postal Museum Try-me, Richmond, VA Union College Art Collection, Schenectady, NY Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript library, New Haven, CT

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