Biography

Artist, writer, activist, and Yale graduate James Prosek made his authorial debut at nineteen years of age with Trout: an Illustrated History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), which featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America. Prosek has shown his paintings of trout and other natural history subjects with the Gerald Peters Gallery, New York and Santa Fe; Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia; Meredith Long Gallery, Houston; as well as with Wajahat/Ingrao, New York, and the d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn. His exhibition at The Aldrich in 2007-2008 is his first solo museum showing. Prosek is a regular contributor to The New York Times and won a Peabody Award in 2003 for his documentary about traveling through England in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, the seventeenth-century author of The Compleat Angler. He co-founded a conservation initiative called World Trout in 2004 with Yvon Chouinard, the owner of Patagonia clothing company, which raises money for coldwater habitat conservation through the sale of T-shirts featuring trout paintings.

Prosek's eighth book - and first novel - The Day My Mother Left (Simon and Schuster) was published in spring 2007. He is working on an adult non-fiction book about eels for HarperCollins and an article for National Geographic on eels with photographs by David Doubilet. His work in the studio is concerned with our changing relationship to nature. He is currently at work on a series of large scale mermaid paintings, and a children's picture book for Simon and Schuster about migration called, Bird, Buttefly, Eel.

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