Exhibition History

2023

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie
September 16, 2023–January 28, 2024
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107

Sundance Square
Mural in Garage 3
Texas Prairie Composition
Completed March 2023
West Third Street (between Taylor and Throckmorton Street)
Fort Worth, Texas 76102

New York Historical Society Museum
Nature, Crisis, Consequence
March 31, 2023 - July 16, 2023
170 Central Park West
at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)
New York, NY 10024

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art
May 22, 2021 - August 22, 2021
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
2820 Rungius Road
Jackson, WY 83002
Summer 2022
Museum of Art - Deland, Deland, FL
Fall/Winter 2022
Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
Winter/Spring 2023
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Summer/Fall 2023
The James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art, St. Petersburg, FL
Fall 2023 - Winter 2024
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Winter/Spring 2024
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at University of Oklahoma

2022

The Brandywine River Museum of Art
Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art
September 24, 2022 - January 08, 2023
1 Hoffman’s Mill Road
Chadds Ford, PA 19317

Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects
Singing in Unison at Industry City
September 23, 2022–January 21, 2023
Singing in Unison at Industry City
900 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Sun Valley Museum of Art
Dams: Reservoirs, Reclamation, Renewal
August 26 - December 30, 2022
191 Fifth Street East
Ketchum, ID  83340

Waqas Wajahat, New York
James Prosek
March – September, 2022
68 Thomas Street
New York, NY  10013

Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Vietnam
The Foliage IV Exhibition
September 16 – November 30, 2022
B1-R3, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City
72A Nguyễn Trãi, Thanh Xuân, Hà Nội
Vietnam

Concord Center for the Visual Arts
Becoming Trees
March 31-May 8, 2022
37 Lexington Road
Concord, MA 01742

2021

New Britain Museum of American Art
American Realism Today
September 16, 2022 - January 01, 2023 
56 Lexington Street 
New Britain, CT 06052
Curated by Neil Jenney

Phillips Southampton
Ocean Fishes
7 August - 6 September 2021
1 Hampton Road
Southampton, NY 11968

Mana Contemporary
Implied Scale: Confronting the Enormity of Climate Change
April 22 – August 31, 2021
888 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306

Fairfield University Art Museum
Birds of the Northeast: Gulls to Great Auks
January 22 – May 14, 2021
Bellarmine Hall Galleries
1073 North Benson Road
Fairfield, Connecticut 06824

2020

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Made in Connecticut: Celebrating 25 Years of the CT Art Trail
OCTOBER 15, 2020–FEBRUARY 7, 2021
Summer 2020
600 Main Street
Hartford CT, 06103

New York Historical Society Museum
In Profile: A Look at Silhouettes
JANUARY 17, 2020 – AUGUST 15, 2021
170 Central Park West
at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)
New York, NY 10024

Yale University Art Gallery
Art, Artifact, Artifice
February 14, 2020–February 28, 2021
1111 Chapel St
New Haven, CT 06510

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
“Expanded Views” Rotating Installation
December 2019 - December 2020
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107

Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center
Long Island Composition (installed in lobby)
Jones Beach State Park
West End 2
150 Bay Parkway
Wantagh, NY 117932019

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019
June 10 – August 12, 2019
Burlington House entrance
Burlington House, Piccadilly,
London, W1J 0BD

Art In Embassies, U.S. Department of State
U.S. Embassy, Canberra, Australia
Canberra 2019
Moonah Pl, Yarralumla
ACT 2600, Australia
ARTISTS: Alex Nyerges, Andras J. Bality, Carlton Newton, Deborah Ellis, Ed Hatch, Emily Mason, Isabel Bigelow, James Prosek, Javier Tapia, Kiara Pelissier, Ray Kass, Ron Johnson, Sally Bowring, Sally Mann, Samuel E. Bjorklund, Steven Cushner, Theresa Pollak, Wolf Kahn

Addison Gallery of American Art
A Wildness Distant from Ourselves: Art and Ecology in 19th-Century America
September 1, 2019– July 31, 2020
180 Main Street
Andover, Massachusetts 01810
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Asia Society Hong Kong Center
July 6 – September 8, 2019
To See the Forest and the Trees
9 Justice Drive
Admiralty, Hong Kong

Natural History Museum of Utah
Yellowstone: Invisible Boundaries
June 29 ­– September 15, 2019
Rio Tinto Center | University of Utah
301 Wakara Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108

Florence Griswold Museum
Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art
June 1 – September 8, 2019
96 Lyme Street
Old Lyme, CT 06371

Biennale Arte 2019, Venice
Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum. Complesso della Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti, Fondamenta di Cannaregio, 910
May 8– November 24, 2019
Promoter: The Brooklyn Rail
Curated by Phong Bui
Collateral Events
58th International Art Exhibition

Ely Center of Contemporary Art
Group show curated by Fritz Horstman
May 5 – June 23, 2019
51 Trumbull Street
New Haven, CT  06510

Lowe Art Museum
James Prosek: Contra Naturam / Against Nature
February 28 - September 9, 2019
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33124

2018

Royal Academy of Arts
250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Curated by Grayson Perry
June 12 - August 19, 2018
Burlington House, Picadilly,
Mayfair, London W1J 0BD, UK

National Museum of Wildlife Art
CC XX: Collectors Circle 20th Anniversary, 1998-2018
Celebrate 20 years of special art acquisitions in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
June 1 – August 26, 2018
2820 Rungius Road
PO Box 6825
Jackson, WY 83002

National Museum of Wildlife Art
Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations
June 1 – August 19, 2018
2820 Rungius Road
PO Box 6825
Jackson, WY 83002

Wave Hill
Avifauna: Birds + Habitat
April 7 – June 24, 2018
Glyndor Gallery & On the Grounds
695 West 252nd Street
Bronx, NY  10471-2899

Giertz Gallery at Parkland College
The ART of illustration
Curated by Liza Wynette
February 12–March 27, 2018
2400 West Bradley Avenue
Champaign, IL 61821-1899

2017

Fife Arms Hotel
Upper Deeside, Scottish Highlands
Artist-in-Residence supported by The Fife Arms Hotel, and Hauser & Wirth Gallery
August 31st – October 3rd 2017
Installation or works complete January 2019
Braemar, Scotland

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Invisible Boundaries
September 14–March 1, 2018
Yale University
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520-8118                         
(Traveling in summer 2018 to The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming)

Yale Center for British Art
The Inexhaustible Regions of Nature
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions
June 1—August 13, 2017
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06510-2302

Mildred’s Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity)
May 28th – June 25th         
Main Street
Narrowsburg, NY, 12764

Lowe Art Museum
Fish Tales: Stories and Legends from the Deep
April 20, 2017–April 1, 2018
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146

U.S. Department of State
Commission for US Embassy
Kabul, Afghanistan
Art in Embassies
Installed 2017

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Yellowstone: Wilderness in a Box
The Art of James Prosek
January 20 – June 4, 2017
720 Sheridan Ave
Cody, Wyoming

Reynolds Gallery
James Prosek: Recent Works
January 13 – February 24, 2017
1514 West Main Street
Richmond, VA  23220

2016

North Carolina Museum of Art
Abstract Fish No. 4
Bronze
July 8, 2016
Installed in the Larry Wheeler Pool
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, North Carolina

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Invisible Boundaries
June 17, 2016 – January 2017
720 Sheridan Ave
Cody, Wyoming

Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art
James Prosek Watercolors
June 10 - July 23, 2016
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
1084 Shennecossett Road
Groton, CT 06340

Katonah Museum of Art
The Nest, an exhibition of Art in Nature
March 6 - June 19, 2016
Beitzel and Righter Galleries
134 Jay Street - Route 22
Katonah, NY 10536

Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Rare Bird: John James Audubon and
Contemporary Art
January 21 - April 3, 2016
Ursinus College
601 E. Main Street
Collegeville, PA 19426-1000

National Geographic Magazine Headquarters
Invisible Boundaries
April 28th – September 2016
1145 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC  20036

2015

Center for Contemporary Printmaking
20th Retrospective:
Highlights From The Past 20 Years
September 12 – December 13, 2015
Mathews Park           
299 West Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06850

Vero Beach Museum of Art
James Prosek: Ocean Fishes
June 6, 2015 – September 6, 2015
3001 Riverside Park Drive
Vero Beach, Florida 32963

North Carolina Museum of Art
Field Guide: James Prosek's Un/Natural World
March 7–August 2, 2015
East Building, Level B, Studio 3
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, North Carolina

U.S. Embassy
Art in Embassies
Abuja, Nigeria
Curated by Virginia Shore

Leslie Feely Gallery
in association with Schwartz-Wajahat
James Prosek: Walk in the Woods
March 5 – May 22, 2015
33 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

Addison Gallery of American Art
Light/Dark, White/Black
January 17 – July 31, 2015
Andover, MA

2014

Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Singing and the Silence:
Birds in Contemporary Art
October 31, 2014-February 22, 2015
3rd floor North8th and F Streets, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004

Cornell Lab of Ornithology
James Prosek: Wall of Silhouettes
Cornell University
Sapsucker Woods
Ithaca, NY

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Beyond Eden: The Work of James Prosek
December 12, 2014 – May 2, 2015
The Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
2430 North Cannon Drive
Chicago, IL 60614

Hudson River Museum
Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art
October 11, 2014 – January 18, 2015
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10701

Arnot Art Museum
James Prosek:  Three Americans, 2014
September 2, 2014 – January 9, 2015
Falck Gallery—West Wing Ground Level
235 Lake Street
Elmira, New York

Woods Hole Historical Museum
Ocean Fishes: the Art of James Prosek
June 21 - July 31, 2014
579 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543

The Slater Memorial Museum
The Animal Heart
Norwich Free Academy
June 15 - August 10, 2014
305 Broadway 
Norwich, CT  06360

New Britain Museum of American Art
James Prosek: Wondrous Strange
February 22-June 8, 2014
New Britain, CT

Bell Museum of Natural History
Audubon and the Art of Birds
University of Minnesota,
October 5, 2013 – June 8, 2014
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
October 4, 2014 – Jan. 4, 2015
Sam Noble Museum, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman May 15 – July 26, 2014

Trafó Gallery of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Like a Bird: Avian Ecologies in
Contemporary Art
December 12,2013 – January 26, 2014
Artists: Greta Alfaro (ES), Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan (RO), Tamás Kaszás / Anikó Loránt (Ex Artists Collective) (HU), Szabolcs Kisspál (HU), London Fieldworks (UK), James Prosek (USA) and Andrea Roe (UK)

Traveled to: Tranzit.ro / Bucharest
9 May to 4 June
Str. Galelei nr.44, sector 4
Bucharest, Romania

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wood Gallery 227
November 27, 2013–September 16, 2014
The Peacock and the Cobra: James Prosek among the Arts of South Asia