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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Brandon Ballengée ![Ballengee Rip Batfish And Butterflyfish 2014 Hero Image](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/Ballengee-RIP-Batfish-and-Butterflyfish-2014-hero-image.jpg) Brandon Ballengée RIP Atlantic Guitarfish, 2014 Biography Brandon Ballengée (American, born 1974) is a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator based in Louisiana. Ballengée creates transdisciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians. In 2001, he was nominated for membership into Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society. In 2009, Ballengée and SK Sessions published “Explanation for Missing Limbs in Deformed Amphibians” in the Journal of Experimental Zoology and received international media attention from the BBC and others. This scientific study was the inspiration for the book Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians (published by Arts Catalyst & Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK) and a solo exhibition at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (London, England: 2010). From 2009 through 2015 he continued his amphibian research as a Visiting Scientist at McGill University (Montréal, Canada) and, in 2011, he was awarded a conservation leadership fellowship from the National Audubon Society’s TogetherGreen Program (USA). In 2014 he received his Ph.D. in Transdisciplinary Art and Biology from Plymouth University (UK) in association with Zürich University of the Arts and Applied Sciences (Switzerland). In 2015, he was the recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/ballengee-bio_2024-04-02-211656_vucv.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Packet ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Ballengee_PressPacket_2018-compressed.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) Artist Website ](https://brandonballengee.com/) Select Press Apr 05, 2015 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/Press/Balleng%C3%A9e-RIP-Great-Auk-After-John-Gould-1873-2014.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2015-ballengee-nea-blog) National Endowment for the Arts Group Show [ Art (and Science) Talk with artist-biologist Brandon Ballengée ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2015-ballengee-nea-blog) Sep 19, 2017 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/2012/Ballengee-Collapse-2012-mixed-media-installation-DETAIL-3.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-ballengee-whit-online) The Whit Group Show [ Art and biology intersect in “Sea of Vulnerability" ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017-ballengee-whit-online) Mar 29, 2014 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/2012/Ballengee-DFA117-Galatee-2001-7.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2014-ballengee-huffington-post) Huffington Post Group Show [ These Photos Will Make You Think Twice About Animal Deformities ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2014-ballengee-huffington-post) Mar 05, 2015 [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Ballengee-The-Frameworks-of-Absence-Installation-View-2015_07.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2016-ballengee-hyperallergic) Hyperallergic Group Show [ Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2016-ballengee-hyperallergic) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Burden-Doorway-to-Heaven-1973_2025-08-26-193130_lpzr.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show [ Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Warhol-Moonwalk-pink-1987.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show [ Airspace ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Salavon-Class-of-88-Diptych_190606_204821.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/344-group-show-summer-2019) Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show [ Summer 2019 ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/344-group-show-summer-2019) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e-RIP-Florida-Black-Wolf-After-John-James-Audubon-2014_red.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/318-armory-ballengee-3-5-3-8-2015) Mar 04 – Mar 07, 2015 Brandon Ballengée [ The Armory Show: The Frameworks of Absence ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/318-armory-ballengee-3-5-3-8-2015) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) ![Ballengée Ti Tanês 2012 2013](/assets/artist_images/Ballengee/Balleng%C3%A9e-Ti-tan%C3%AAs-2012-2013.JPG) Brandon Ballengée Ti-tânes, 2012-2013 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ballengée Ti Tanês 2012 2013]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée Ti-tânes, 2012-2013 ![Ballengee Dfb 39 Priapus 2013]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée DFA 39 Priapus, 2013 Cleared and stained Pacific tree frog collected in Aptos, California in scientific collaboration with Stanley K. Sessions ![Ballengee Dfa 203 Skeiron 2013]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée DFA 203 Skeiron, 2013 Cleared and stained Pacific tree frog collected in Aptos, California in scientific collaboration with Stanley K. Sessions ![Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée Collapse, 2012 mixed-media installation including 26,162 preserved specimens representing 270 species, glass, Preffer and Carosafe preservative solutoins ![Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation Detail 3]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée Collapse (detail), 2012 ![Ballengée Turquoise Throated Puffleg Hummingbird After John Gould 1861 2015 Red]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée RIP Turquoise-throated PUffing Hummingbird: After John Gould, 1868/2015 ![Ballengée Rip Martinique Brown Throated Parakeet After George Edwards 1750 2015 Red]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée RIP Martinique Brown-throated Parakeet: After George Edwards, 1750/2015 ![Balelengee Rip Audubons Bighorn Sheep After John James Audubon 2016 Red]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée RIP Great Auk: After Theodore Jasper, 1881/2015 ![Ballengee That Turns And Flies In Liquid For The Deadly Twin Aborted… 2010 2012]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée "That turns and flies in liquid for the deadly twin aborted...", 2010/12 ![Ballengee Moonlight Chant 2010 12 3]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Brandon Ballengée "Moonlight chant in the metamorphosis hanged up to the Air", 2010/12 ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07](/assets/exhibition_images/Ballengee-The-Frameworks-of-Absence-Installation-View-2015_07.JPG) The Frameworks of Absence View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) The Frameworks of Absence installation view ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 06]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) The Frameworks of Absence installation view ![Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Collapse, 2012 installation view ![Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 North Gallery Installation View 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012 installation view ![Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 South And North Gallery Installation View 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012 installation view ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07](/assets/exhibition_images/Ballengee-The-Frameworks-of-Absence-Installation-View-2015_07.JPG) ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 06](/assets/exhibition_images/Ballengee-The-Frameworks-of-Absence-Installation-View-2015_06.JPG) ![Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 2](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/2012/Ballengee-Collapse-2012-mixed-media-installation-South-gallery-view-2.JPG) ![Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 North Gallery Installation View 2](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/2012/Ballengee-Collapse-The-Cry-of-Silent-Forms-2012-North-Gallery-Installation-View-2.JPG) ![Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 South And North Gallery Installation View 2](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/2012/Ballengee-Collapse-The-Cry-of-Silent-Forms-2012-South-and-North-Gallery-Installation-View-2.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) The Frameworks of Absence installation view ![Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 06]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) The Frameworks of Absence installation view ![Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 2]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Collapse, 2012 installation view ![Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 North Gallery Installation View 2]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012 installation view ![Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 South And North Gallery Installation View 2]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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