Bianca Levan is a papercut artist based in San Francisco. 

She is driven by curiosity and desire for expression. Her hand-cut work embraces imperfections left by the knife blade and the inherent constraints of black paper and negative space. 

A paper cutting art piece by Bianca Levin, showing a woman sitting in a flower field with the moon shining overhead.
A paper cutting art piece by Bianca Levin, shows the sun shining over a clearing in the woods.
A paper cutting art piece by Bianca Levin, showing the sun and moon shining over a tree. Two panels of the piece are in night time and the center of the panel is in daylight.
A paper cutting art piece by Bianca Levin, shows the sun shining over a tree on a hill.
A paper cutting art piece named Held Together, by Bianca Levin, shows the silhouette of two people holding a sapling together with the roots showing.
A paper cutting art piece named In the Clearing, Behind the Smoke, the Tree Still Stands. The piece shows a delicate tree standing among other leafless trees. The clearing is framed in the foreground, by thorns and smoke rises in the distance.
A paper cutting art piece by Bianca Levin, showing a woman sitting on a bed with curtains. A book lies open on the bed.
A close up shot of several paper cutting art pieces by Bianca Levan, held by the artist.

Collections

Depicts a smiling woman in the bottom right corner, the text Beautiful Possibility; a creative process journal by Gillian Jakob Kieser

Podcast

“Paper-cutting is the way to sit still. Sit with uncomfortable questions, dealing with moments of tension, places of conflict…”

Listen to the podcast Beautiful Possibility by Gillian Jakob Kieser, where Bianca tells us about processing life through art.