Ronald Feldman Gallery | Brandon Ballengée

Brandon Ballengée

Ballengee Rip Batfish And Butterflyfish 2014 Hero Image

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).

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Apr 05, 2015

National Endowment for the Arts Group Show Art (and Science) Talk with artist-biologist Brandon Ballengée

Sep 19, 2017

The Whit Group Show Art and biology intersect in “Sea of Vulnerability"

Mar 29, 2014

Huffington Post Group Show These Photos Will Make You Think Twice About Animal Deformities

Mar 05, 2015

Hyperallergic Group Show Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show

Exhibitions

Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show Airspace

Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show Summer 2019

Mar 04 – Mar 07, 2015 Brandon Ballengée The Armory Show: The Frameworks of Absence

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Ballengée Ti Tanês 2012 2013

Brandon Ballengée

Ti-tânes, 2012-2013

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Ballengée Ti Tanês 2012 2013

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Brandon Ballengée

Ti-tânes, 2012-2013

Ballengee Dfb 39 Priapus 2013

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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

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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

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Brandon Ballengée

Collapse, 2012

mixed-media installation including 26,162 preserved specimens representing 270 species, glass, Preffer and Carosafe preservative solutoins

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Brandon Ballengée

Collapse (detail), 2012

Ballengée Turquoise Throated Puffleg Hummingbird After John Gould 1861 2015 Red

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Brandon Ballengée

RIP Turquoise-throated PUffing Hummingbird: After John Gould, 1868/2015

Ballengée Rip Martinique Brown Throated Parakeet After George Edwards 1750 2015 Red

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Brandon Ballengée

RIP Martinique Brown-throated Parakeet: After George Edwards, 1750/2015

Balelengee Rip Audubons Bighorn Sheep After John James Audubon 2016 Red

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Brandon Ballengée

RIP Great Auk: After Theodore Jasper, 1881/2015

Ballengee That Turns And Flies In Liquid For The Deadly Twin Aborted… 2010 2012

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Brandon Ballengée

"That turns and flies in liquid for the deadly twin aborted...", 2010/12

Ballengee Moonlight Chant 2010 12 3

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Brandon Ballengée

"Moonlight chant in the metamorphosis hanged up to the Air", 2010/12

Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07

The Frameworks of Absence

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Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07

The Frameworks of Absence

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Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 06

The Frameworks of Absence

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Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 2

Collapse, 2012

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Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 North Gallery Installation View 2

Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012

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Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 South And North Gallery Installation View 2

Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012

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Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07

Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 06

Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 2

Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 North Gallery Installation View 2

Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 South And North Gallery Installation View 2

Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 07

The Frameworks of Absence

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Ballengee The Frameworks Of Absence Installation View 2015 06

The Frameworks of Absence

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Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation South Gallery View 2

Collapse, 2012

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Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 North Gallery Installation View 2

Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012

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Ballengee Collapse The Cry Of Silent Forms 2012 South And North Gallery Installation View 2

Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms, 2012

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Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.