Leena Lee is an atmosphere artist, field recordist, researcher, and designer whose work explores corporeal attunement to our environment through affective listening. Rooted in environmental poetics, her practice centers on creating immersive atmospheres that emerge from extended listening, slow field observation, and tonal studies, weaving together the stories of both human and non-human entities that inhabit shared spaces. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges the sciences—such as biology and anthropology—with the humanities, particularly philosophy of nature and aural studies, integrating theoretical research with fieldwork. She holds a PhD in Art History from UNAM, where she researched contemporary art that works with natural phenomena as expressive media, from the concepts of atmosphere and embodied experience.

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She hosts the radio shows Sin Superficie, La Piel no es el Límite (Radio Nopal, MX), and The Weight of Atmosphere (ROVR, UK), dedicated to active listening, where she features works of sound ecology, sound art, and experimental music. She is part of the duo Bosque Vacío, with whom she released Cantera Oriente on the London-based label Flaming Pines. Cantera Oriente, a composition that pays homage to the lacustrine history of Mexico City, is part of the collection of the National Sound Archive of Mexico within its soundscape microsite.

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Her works have been recognized as Best Field Recordings and New & Notable on Bandcamp, reviewed in The Wire, and selected in Freeness playlists on BBC Radio 3.

She has recently participated in national and international sound art festivals such as Momentum 13 Biennale (NO) Lips#2 Hydra (FR), Niansa (SL), Tsonami XVII (CL), and MURMURO (MX). As part of collectives, she has received support from Ecos Sonoros and PAPIAM, both aimed at sound ecology and affectivity projects—the latter developed in collaboration with ornithology, sound anthropology, and Maya studies.

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Leena has taught in the Graduate Program in Art History and at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM, as well as at the Universidad del Medio Ambiente and the Faculty of Design and Architecture at La Salle University. For over a decade, she has collaborated with Arte+Ciencia, an interdisciplinary collective at UNAM that explores the intersections of art, science, and the humanities. Her creative and research practice has led her to be invited as an artist and academic across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She has participated as an artist and producer in national and international exhibitions and contributed to books and publications on philosophy, design, and sound art, including Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (UCLA), Ideas Sónicas (CMMAS), and Aural (Tsonami Ediciones).