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His art is featured in the nation's major\u003cbr\u003enatural history museums including the Smithsonian, in galleries, and in books, \u003cbr\u003eas well as on immensely popular T-shirts. Part natural history adventure and\u003cbr\u003epart underground comic, his work depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of\u003cbr\u003eall kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of\u003cbr\u003eextinct animals, and much more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Troll's art is deeply thought provoking\u003cbr\u003e(pun intended) but also simply fun to experience and never far from an inside\u003cbr\u003ejoke he seems to be sharing with everyone. Some of his pieces are amusingly\u003cbr\u003etongue-in-cheek, others are beautifully surrealistic and evocative of the\u003cbr\u003einterconnectedness of life on Earth, and his grandly composed major pieces are\u003cbr\u003ebrilliant, inspiring panoramas of the natural world. His whimsy and attention\u003cbr\u003eto detail in his renderings of fish and other aquatic creatures has earned him\u003cbr\u003ea devoted following of scientists, anglers, and people who just like a good\u003cbr\u003elaugh. Welcome to the fishy, funny, inspiring art of Ray Troll. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRAY TROLL is a world-renowned artist known for his scientifically\u003cbr\u003eaccurate and often humorous artwork, inspired by field work and research in\u003cbr\u003emarine science, paleontology, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Ray's\u003cbr\u003erenditions of everything from modern day salmon and marine mammals to bizarre\u003cbr\u003ecreatures of the prehistoric past have become iconic in fishing, scientific, \u003cbr\u003eand environmental activist communities around the world.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis work, distributed from the Soho Coho Art Gallery in Ketchikan, \u003cbr\u003eAlaska, can be found on posters, hoodies, and millions of t-shirts sported by\u003cbr\u003efisher folks, the occasional celebrity and many others. Ray's paintings and\u003cbr\u003emixed-media drawings are in the collections of the Miami Museum of Science, the Burke Museum of\u003cbr\u003eNatural History and Culture, Alaska Airlines, the Anchorage Museum, the Alaska\u003cbr\u003eState Museum, and the Ketchikan Museum. His books include Sharkabet: a Sea of\u003cbr\u003eSharks from A to Z and Crusisn' the Fossil Coastline and Cruisin the Fossil\u003cbr\u003eFreeway with Dr. Kirk Johnson, now director of the Smithsonian National Museum\u003cbr\u003eof Natural History, for which he and Kirk were awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.\u003cbr\u003eHe and Port Townsend writer Brad Matsen produced four popular books: Shocking\u003cbr\u003eFish Tales, Planet Ocean, Raptors, Fossil, Fins and Fangs and Rapture of the\u003cbr\u003eDeep. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRay's recent ventures include co-hosting the popular Paleo Nerd Podcast, featuring informative\u003cbr\u003eand amusing interviews with leading paleontologists and scientists from around\u003cbr\u003ethe world. 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