(American, born 1974) is a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator based in Arnaudville, Louisiana.

For almost three decades Ballengée has created multidisciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Ballengée’s artwork has been exhibited in over 20 countries and in 2013 the first career survey of his work debuted at the Château de Chamarande (Essonne, France), which travelled to the Museum Het Domein (Sittard, Netherlands) in 2014. In 2016, a mid-career retrospective of his work opened at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, Wyoming). In 2021 a survey exhibition of his work was held at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, featuring works that responded to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. In 2025 these DWH works travelled to the Galveston Art Center (Galveston, TX) for Ballengée’s solo exhibition “The Sea of Lost Children” through a grant from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation with funding from the NOAA Restoration Center.

Ballengée has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2017), Awards from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (2015, 2016), a Creative Capital Award (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), a Special Jury Prize from the COAL 2022 Award (France), and was included in the 2020 Grist 50 Emerging Environmental Leaders.

He holds a Ph.D. in Transdisciplinary Art and Biology from Plymouth University (UK) in association with the Zurich University of the Arts, (Switzerland). Currently, he is an Adjunct Faculty of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University studying the impact of the 2010 oil spill on Gulf of Mexico fish species. In 2026-28 he will be a visiting artist-scientist in the Department of Biology and Fellow of the EcoSphere Group at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in collaboration with The Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He is the co-founder of Atelier de la Nature, a STEAM education center and nature reserve in Arnaudville, Louisiana.