Brandon Ballengée Brandon Ballengée (b. 1974, Arnaudville, Louisiana) holds a Ph.D. in Transdisciplinary Art and Biology from Plymouth University (UK) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich (Switzerland). He completed postdoctoral research at Louisiana State University's Museum of Natural Science (2016-2019), focusing on the impact of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill on fish species. He is the recipient of a 2017/18 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 2019 Creative Capital Award, and 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named among the 2020 Grist 50 Emerging Environmental Leaders. His work has been exhibited internationally across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, with a career survey at Château de Chamarande, France (2013) and a twenty-year retrospective at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (2016). Collections holding his work include the Baltimore Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and NASA.