Lee Pivnik is a Miami-based artist, working predominantly in sculpture, video and social practice. His work takes inspiration from living systems and other species to imagine a future based on mutualistic relationships instead of extractive economies. Pivnik has been an artist in residence at Biosphere 2 and Atlantic Center for the Arts. He has been awarded Knight Arts Challenge Awards in 2019 and 2021, and an Ellie from Oolite Arts in 2020. He founded the Institute of Queer Ecology, which produces interdisciplinary programming that oscillates between curating exhibitions and directly producing artworks/projects as a collaborative organism.