Leena Lee is an atmosphere artist, field recordist, and researcher whose work explores corporeal attunement to the environment through affective listening.

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Rooted in environmental poetics, her practice centers on creating immersive atmospheres that emerge from extended listening, slow field observation, and tonal studies. Working across sound art, participatory practice, fieldwork, installation, and radio, she develops collaborative projects with communities, scientists, and fellow artists, weaving together the stories of human and more-than-human entities that share the same spaces. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges art, the sciences, and the humanities, particularly philosophy of nature, biology, and aural studies, integrating theoretical research with fieldwork.

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She is currently pursuing postdoctoral research in Philosophy of Nature at UNAM with the project Gardening as an Ecology of Care, developed through community-based fieldwork and interviews, and is a founding member of the Arte+Ciencia research group, an interdisciplinary collective at UNAM producing festivals, exhibitions, artworks, books, conferences, and workshops for over fifteen years. She also holds a PhD in Art History from UNAM, where her doctoral research examined artistic practices engaging natural phenomena as expressive media, approached through the concepts of atmosphere and embodied experience.

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She hosts the radio programs Sin Superficie, La Piel no es el Límite (Radio Nopal, MX) and The Weight of Atmosphere (ROVR, UK), both dedicated to active listening and featuring works in sound ecology, sound art, and experimental music, with a particular focus on practices developed by women and dissident voices. She is part of the duo Bosque Vacío, whose album Aves de Nahá (Dinzu Artefacts) draws on Lacandon ornithological knowledge from Nahá, Chiapas. Their earlier composition Cantera Oriente, released on Flaming Pines, pays homage to the lacustrine history of Mexico City and is held in the collection of Mexico's National Sound Archive.

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She is currently developing Climate Memories / Memorias del Clima with Linda O'Keeffe, a research project gathering personal memories of environmental change through a monthly radio programme on WGXC 90.7 FM with Wave Farm, New York, and community workshops.

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Her work has been recognized as Best Field Recordings and New & Notable on Bandcamp, reviewed in The Wire and A Closer Listen, featured in 4'33 MAGAZINE, and selected for Freeness playlists on BBC Radio 3. She has contributed to publications including Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (UCLA), Resounding Spaces: Approaching Musical Atmospheres (Mimesis), Ideas Sónicas (CMMAS), and Aural (Tsonami Ediciones). She has participated in national and international festivals including Lips#2 Hydra (FR), Niansa (SL), Tsonami XVII (CL) as a commissioned radio work, Transferencias Aurales (MX), and El Aleph (MX). Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Centro Nacional de las Artes (MX), Centro Cultural España en México, Centro Cultural de Lagos (PT), and Momentum 13 Biennale (NO).

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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.