RIP Passenger Pigeon: After Jack Ruthven, 1973/2023
Hand-colored aquatint
42.25 x 27.75 in., unframed
RIP Zanzibar Leopard: After Rich Buckler & Frank Giacoia, 1973/2023
Bronze Age comic book cover
10.5 x 7.25 in., unframed
RIP Dodo: After S. Edwards, 1808/2023
Hand-colored copperplate engraving
10.75 x 7 in., unframed
Brandon Ballengée
Lives and works in Louisiana, USA
EDUCATION / ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
2021-26
Adjunct Faculty of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2015-18
Postdoctoral Research, Ichthyology Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2014
Ph. D., Transdisciplinary Art and Science, University of Plymouth, England / Hochschule Für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland
2008
M.Phil., University of Plymouth, England / Hochschule Für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2023
Redbud Arts Center, Houston, TX, Sculpting Endless Forms
2022
CAIRN Centre d’art, Digne-les-Bains, France, Aimer, c’est agir
2021
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA, The Age of Loneliness
2019
Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA, Brandon Ballengée: Ghosts of the Gulf
Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA, Brandon Ballengée: Frameworks of Absence
Museum of Fine Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, La Sang Noir (catalog)
2018
Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Brandon Ballengée: Frameworks of Absence
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, Ti-tânes and Other Myths of the Anthropocene
2017
Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ, Brandon Ballengée: Sea of Vulnerability
2016
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, Waste Land: A Survey of Works by Brandon Ballengée (catalog)
2015
Nowhere Gallery, Milan, Italy, A Habit of Deciding Influence (catalog)
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Collapse
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, Breathing Space for the Hudson
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts at The Armory Show, New York, NY, Frameworks of Absence
2014
National Academy of the Sciences, Washington D.C., Collapse
Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Beacon, NY, Ghosts of the Gulf
Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA, Eco-Displacement: Ghosts of the Gulf
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands, Seasons in Hell
Alden B Dow Museum of Art and Science, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI, Nature’s Fading Chorus
2013
DOCVA, Viafarini, Milan, Italy, Committed
Chateau du Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande, France, Augures d’Innoncence (catalog)
The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA, The Cryptic Ones
2012
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
2011
Prospect New Orleans 2 Satellite, Longue Vue House and Gardens, New Orleans, LA, Audubon’s Absence
2010
Parco Arte Vivente, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, Praeter Naturam
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, England, The Case of the Deviant Toad
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21C Museum Hotels, Louisville, KY, USA
American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Columbus Public Library, Columbus, OH, USA
Cross Hill Academy, Yonkers, NY, USA
Gallery Oldham, Manchester, England
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Geumgang Nature Art Museum, Gwangju, South Korea
Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, USA
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Karl Stirner Arts Trail, Easton, PA
Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Natural History Museum, London, England
NASA, Washington, DC, USA
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
New York State Museum, Albany, NY, USA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, USA
Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Progressive, Mayfield, OH, USA
School of Art and Design New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA
Shrewsbury Museum, Shropshire, England
State University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, USA
TICKON Tranekaer International Center for Art and Nature, Langeland, Denmark
Teaneck Creek Conservancy, Teaneck, NY, USA
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, USA
Verbeke Foundation, Westakker, Belgium
Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
