Symbiotic House: Lee Pivnik

Date:
Thursday, May 14, 2026

Time:
6:30 pm

Location:
The Kampong (4013 S Douglas Road Miami FL 33133)

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Please join us for the final installment in the 2025 Symbiotic House lecture series at The Kampong featuring Lee Pivnik. For more information on the series, visit the Symbiotic House page.

Lee Pivnik (b. 1995) is an artist living in Miami, Florida. In 2018 he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Sculpture. Working across disciplines, he takes inspiration from living systems and other species to imagine a future based on mutualistic relationships instead of extractive economies. Permeating his practice is the idea of entanglement – the touching, changing, mutating relationships between species and their environments. Through these intimacies, worlds arise —worlds of decay and degradation or verdant flourishing. His sculptures, drawings, and installations create a visual language for ecological entanglement, referencing fungal networks, epiphytic plants, and emergent animal architectures that inhabit South Florida.

Pivnik founded and co-directs the Institute of Queer Ecology (IQECO), an ever-evolving collaborative organism that has worked with over 150 different artists to present interdisciplinary programming that oscillates between curating programs and directly producing artworks. IQECO projects are interdisciplinary, but grounded in themes of interconnectivity, intimacy, and multispecies relationality. IQECO explores the overlaps between queer cultural production and multispecies biological adaptation to reveal a vibrant and complex world of belonging.

Lee Pivnik’s work has been included in solo or two-person shows at Hotel Art Pavillion (NY), Mild Climate (TN), Biosphere 2 (AZ), YoungArts (FL), and Hi-Lo Press (GA). He has been awarded Knight Arts Challenge Awards in 2019 and 2021, and a Creative Capital Award (2025). Pivnik has been an artist in residence at Biosphere 2 (2017), Mana Contemporary Miami (2018), Atlantic Center for the Arts (2021), Deering Estate (2022–23), Oolite Arts (2024) and Folly Tree Arboretum (2024). Working as the Institute of Queer Ecology, Pivnik has presented projects with the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY), the United Nations – ART 2030 (New York, NY), the Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami, Florida), the Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf, Germany), Centre Pompidou-Metz (Metz, France), Museum Schloss Moyland, (Bedburg-Hau, Germany), Kestner Gesellschaft (Hannover, Germany) the Medellín Museum of Modern Art (Medellín, Colombia), the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (Serbia), the Biennale of Sydney (Australia), Prairie (Chicago, IL), Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami, FL) Gas Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), and Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), among others.

A forum for open and participatory research, the Symbiotic House lecture series is organized by Miami-based artist Lee Pivnik as a means of gathering artists and designers that are working at the edges of architecture to share how their practices encourage ecological mutualism through design. Read more about the series.

Presented by: The Benjamin & Gloria Joannou, Jr. Family Conservation Fund