The Styrous® Viewfinder: Lisa Levine

January 23, 2026

The Orchard / Galleries on 25 ~ Lisa Levine

Lisa Levine is a fine art photographer and educator born and raised in New York, NY. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in her Oakland studio for more than twenty-five years. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and resides in various corporate and public art collections, including those of the Alameda County Art Commission, Berkeley Civic Arts Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the David Brower Center, and the Kala Institute. Her work is represented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, Danielle Wohl Fine Art, SLATE Gallery, and the Kala Institute Art Gallery.

In recent years, she has been working on public art commissions and creating large scale artworks for public spaces. She promotes public art as it provides an opportunity for art to enliven and add beauty to spaces that people experience as part of their daily lives.

She says, "In this context the art can provide a bountiful visual experience that creates opportunities for reflection, contemplation and discourse. These projects are also exciting because they have enabled me to actualize my work at large scale and in many different types of materials."

She taught photography at California State University (East Bay) for more than a decade and was an adjunct professor in the photography departments at both Ohlone and Solano colleges. She currently teaches photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in both the graduate and undergraduate divisions.