EventsThe New Social Environment#1356
James Prosek: Nature Wonder and the Myth of Order
Featuring Prosek and Phong H. Bui
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist James Prosek joins Rail Publisher and Artistic Director Phong H. Bui for a conversation on Zoom.
In this Talk
James Prosek

James Prosek is an artist, writer, and naturalist whose work pays homage to the history of art and natural sciences while addressing contemporary environmental concerns. His diverse body of work is the result of extensive travel and field observation. Prosek creates paintings, drawings, and sculptures that evoke the immense biodiversity of our planet and its imaginative potential. The interconnectedness of nature, the ephemerality of boundaries, and the loss of cultural and biological diversity are major themes of Prosek’s work. He has published over a dozen books and exhibited his art globally from the Yale University Art Gallery and the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.
Phong H. Bui

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨