Bianca Trevino
Artist
Starting my artistic journey in 2011, the desire to create art that I attained soon became an unyielding obligation to myself to explore the inner mechanism of my creative consciousness. From small sketches to large scale projects, my art is a highly-personal reflection of myself and my life. I’ve been lucky enough to have live and created across 6 continente where I have participated in many collaborative projects, as well as exhibiting in a solo capacity. If you would like to find out more about my process, get in touch.
PROVIDING WOMEN A DIGNIFIED WORK
Women in West Africa are taught to hand produce beautiful leaf fabric, and are provided with a fair wage. We not only see beautiful products emerging, we see broken lives being made whole.
Celebrating
10 years as an Artist
Celebrating
10 years as an Artist
WELCOME
Bianca offers a collection of unique, sustainable, functional, simple and sophisticated products that are hand crafted by artisans
in West Africa, Southeast Asia, and USA. The quartz used in the capsule are collected thru our travels around the globe.
We ship from USA, Switzerland, and Togo.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2024 – Established new studio in Uerikon, Zürich, Switzerland.
2016 – Wild Extinction, Vernissage at The Hub, Geneva, Switzerland (450+ visitors opening day).
2014–Present – Wild Extinction: long-term project combining drawing, publishing, design, and sculpture to raise awareness of endangered species. Expanded into:
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Educational magazine (A4 booklet for children, distributed via Amazon, used in classrooms internationally).
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Hand-printed t-shirts and wall adhesives.
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Animal illustrations adapted into stained glass proposals for hospitals, schools, and zoos.
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2012–Ongoing – Who I Used to Be, Who I Was, Who I Thought I Was, Who I Wasn’t (sculpture series). Sculptural reflections on identity, memory, and transformation over time, questioning how self-perception evolves through lived experience.
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2012 – Extremes (Mexico): portrait series exploring cultural and ecological dualities. Figures combined glacial heads, African-inspired neck jewelry, and Western faces, reflecting contrasts between consumption and preservation.
Sculpture & Material Research
2021–Present – Development of a sculptural practice informed by cycles of disappearance and transformation.
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Land Art works created with natural, ephemeral materials, designed to dissolve back into the environment.
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Glacier-like sculptures using experimental combinations of glass, salt, coal, crystals, wire, plaster, and wax, reflecting on melting ice, mineral extraction, and climate change.
Residencies, Research & Social Practice
2018–2020 – Based in Benin & Togo, West Africa.
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Lived near Lomé port, observing the flows of global overconsumption and shipping.
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Founded Alchémia: a soap initiative developed with women near cacao farms, transforming traditional black soap-making into a sustainable practice that converts waste into ecological products, generating additional income for local communities.
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Expanded Jumpers for Education (est. 2018): children’s clothing project using Beninese cotton and overstock fabric, hand-dyed in unique patterns. Each garment funds one child’s schooling for a year.
2015 – Designed sustainable bags with Southeast Asian artisans using natural leaves. Focused on impermeability, texture, and contemporary form. Exported internationally.
2008–2013 – Research travels in South America and Asia, investigating lithium mining, salt economies, and the effects of overconsumption.
2006 – Studied traditional Chinese scroll painting at the Nanjing Art Institute & Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing). Traveled to 16 cities across China to learn directly from master artists.
Education
2010 – West Virginia University, BS in Landscape Architecture, Magna Cum Laude
2010 – West Virginia University, BFA in Painting, Magna Cum Laude
2006 – Nanjing Art Institute & Central Academy of Fine Arts (China), Chinese Scroll Painting