Resident

Taras Grescoe
From 16 May to 28 June 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Taras Grescoe is the award-winning author of seven non-fiction books, among them the best-selling The Devil’s Picnic (2005), Bottomfeeder:How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (2008), Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012), and Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World (2016) at HarperCollins and MacMillan. His books have been published in a half-dozen languages. He’s a contributor to The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The Smithsonian, and many other magazines and newspapers. Born in Toronto in 1966, raised in Vancouver and Calgary, he now lives in Montreal.