FULL TIME ARTISTS

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Pony reinhardt | @freeorgy

Books closed until January 4th 2025 for all 2026

Express Booking requests may be possible!

Founding Artist - $700/hr debit/cash - $750/hr credit

+ Drawing Fee:
Small : $350: up to 8x10”
Medium: $600: up to 11x17”
Large: $850: beyond 11x17”

+ 4.5% NYC service tax

4 Hour Minimum ( $3150 Cash / $3350 Credit + 4.5% tax )

Pony Reinhardt is an astral ruffian, thriving in the wilderness of the lost and found nebulae and dripping carbon monoxide. Their art is a cosmic cataclysm of the Ghastly Phantastic.  View their fine art at The Lost Fur.  

Pony has shown in the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art and their awards include US Presidential Scholar of the Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and The National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Silver Award.

Their body of tattoo work is built on a framework of ritual placemats and alchemical diagrams.  Each piece is a synergy of elemental spell materials, drawing inspiration from the natural world.

Anastasiya | @titova_tattoo

Upcoming Artist

$400/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$450/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax

I like to share a piece of my soul with people through tattoos. Man is a kind of gallery. I'm helping to replenish it. I like to draw every free moment. Snakes, botanicals, and photorealistic tattoos are my greatest interests. I believe that every tattoo is a decoration for every person. 

Liv | @witch.toes

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
One Hour Minimum

Liv has always had a passion for creating. Living most of her life around nature, she developed a deep appreciation for both flora and fauna early on, which have translated into her work today. After moving to NYC, she fell in love with the handpoked technique as well as the relaxing, gentle experience it provides. She enjoys using this method to produce both delicate ornamental designs and soft nature inspired pieces.

Liv draws inspiration from neo-traditional, surrealist, and ornamental styles, and enjoys tattooing a multitude of subjects, primarily in black and grey.

River | @river.tatt

$250/$300hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/$350/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax

River specializes in fine line, realism, and one-of-a-kind designs. With her years of experience in the editorial industry as a visual artist, she uses her skills to convey stories and ideas through the realm of tattooing. She is trying to capture the mystique aspect of nature and human form in her work. River enjoys blending abstract shapes with realistic elements to create a reimagined look.

zARA | @zaratattoos

Senior Artist

$300/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$350/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
Two Hour Minimum

Zara finds her greatest inspiration in nature and its inhabitants, She specializes in detailed fine line work with the unique use of colors and in black and grey. She started her tattooing career in Brooklyn, and uses her background in illustration to incorporate the whimsical touch and finesse needed to bring the delicate florals and enchanting creatures to life.
Wherever you find your inspiration, Zara is passionate about transforming it into an everlasting embellishment.

MACa | @blekanddots

Upcoming Artist

$300/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$350/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax

Maca is a handpoke tattoo artist from Chile, with a bachelor in Fine Arts and Color Theory. Her studies allowed her to see body art from another perspective. She is inspired by aspects of abstraction, different surfaces, multiple materials, and techniques like painting, ceramic, knitting, etc. Her work stimulates the imagination; inviting people to connect from their feelings, memories, and day to day moments. You can see with your eyes, but also with all of your senses. Maca aims to connect with people through her work in a very special and intimate environment.

NEEKEH | @neekeh.tattoo

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
One Hour Minimum

Hailing from Sweden, Neekeh is a tattoo artist with a background in fashion and graphic design. She approaches her work with a designer’s mindset, aiming to harmonize her tattoos with the body’s natural contours. Her portfolio includes a variety of styles, from large blackout pieces to smaller ornamental designs and colorful illustrations, catering to diverse preferences. Neekeh is dedicated to the art of tattooing and takes pride in creating personalized designs for her clients. She believes in the power of self-expression through ink, making each piece a unique reflection of the individual it adorns.

BONGJIN | @telephonepole2

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
One Hour Minimum

Bongjin is a South Korean-born artist who specializes in blackwork tattoos. His vision is to use his preferred medium, the skin, to create statement pieces and conversation starters. Bongjin’s tattoos present a blend of contrasting forms that are both edgy, yet delicate. His adornments are inspired by his fascination with the odd or unusual, juxtaposed with the visuals of everyday life. A fairy on a cow-print moon. A scorpion whose stinger is a miniature scorpion.

His favorite thing to do when given the opportunity is incorporate an element of wit into a piece. Although he is meticulous in his handling of bold outlines and solid planes of crisp, all-black ink, he believes that part of the fun in life is not taking oneself too seriously!

Mikayla| @MikaylaSueTattoo

$300/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$350/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
One Hour Minimum

Mikayla is an artist from the Midwest who relocated to NYC to expand her creative and artistic pursuits. With a background in figurative sculpture and illustration, she brings a unique perspective to her work. Mikayla specializes in black and gray illustrative realism, often exploring themes of nature, ornamental elements, and iconography. She focuses on integrating feminine components into her tattoos, creating pieces rich in delicate details and meaningful symbolism.

EVER | @yzy.ss

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
One Hour Minimum

Ever is a Venezuelan artist that came to New York looking for new horizons in 2018 with the philosophy of patience, kindness, and constancy. In 2019 Ever found interest in the art of tattoos as a way to express himself and explore a way of representing his world and how he interpreted different subjects through his form of art.

Nature themes, human figures and still objects inspire his pieces, exploring how these themes create appealing compositions through lines, light, and shadows showing the beauty of the humble complexity of our world.

DIANA | @DEECARL

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax

One Hour Minimum

Diana is Filipino-American artist who has lived in California, Texas, and New York. She specializes in delicate fine line tattoos with black and gray wash stipple shading. Being also a fashion model, she understands the challenges of expressing yourself through tattoos in a conservative industry, and she wants to change that. During her free time, she loves to sketch, paint, knit or crochet, and tend to her orchids. She is also passionate about astrology, past life, goddesses and all things spiritual as she used to read astrological natal charts. Diana's inspiration comes from nature, food, and still life.

Victoria | @sacredxprofane 

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax

Victoria is an artist from NYC. She has a fine arts background as a painter. She specializes in fine line tattoos with attention to pattern, placement, and texture.  Her tattoo journey began 10 years ago when she started handpoking tattoos, she has since started tattooing with a machine, but has an abiding love for dots and textures. Her work ranges from pointalism depicting nature and nostalgia, to decorative pieces taking inspiration from architecture and art nouveau. Whether working with a client on a custom piece, or tattooing a piece of flash, she understands that all skin is unique and treats every project with the individual care and thoughtfulness necessary.

Layne | @laynemillertattoos

$175/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$225/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
($100 minimum)

Layne Miller (b. 1999, Long Island, New York) is an artist and tattooer who ties a string between past and present, combining ancient and modern tattooing techniques whilst striving to create uniquely timeless tattoo designs. Using sacred and archetypal images, Layne examines the collective unconscious and the transformative power of mystical imagery. Layne merges delicate machine linework with precision handpoking techniques to create tattoos that heal and age beautifully over time.

Layne finds inspiration for his work in nature’s sublime, ancient folktales and old dusty manuscripts, as well as his own mystical experiences. He is a passionate student of history and Ancient Greek. Layne enjoys Classical guitar, growing medicinal plants, and volunteering as an archaeological illustrator whenever he’s not tattooing.

His message is: do everything with love.

Stephen | @pineapplexxvibes

$250/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$300/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax
1 Hour Minimum

Growing up in the Adirondacks definitely instilled a love of nature that heavily influences Stephen’s work. As well as the miniature jungle of plants in his house! In his free time, Stephen loves antiquing. The hobby plays a deep role in inspiring his designs. Stephen would describe his tattoo style as whimsical, and illustrative. He loves organic life, timeless patterns, and textiles with a touch of classic baroque elegance.

Xiaoqing| @foxwithoutwhiskers

$150-$175/hr debit or cash + 4.5% NYC service tax
$200-$250/hr credit + 4.5% NYC service tax

Xiaoqing’s inspiration comes from ancient Chinese and Japanese art, engravings and egg tempera by Renaissance masters, Baroque and Rococo decorative arts, miniature and manuscripts from ancient India and the Middle East, ceramic from ancient Greece and Central and South America, and various expressions of modern art.

She reinterprets the essence of classical Asian art with contemporary Western sensibilities, reimagining them with the stories in her mind. Her tattoos focus on a fantasy illustration style, featuring flowers, birds, animals, and mythical creatures from ancient Greek and Chinese mythology.

Xiaoqing has been in the art field for more than 25 years. With a background in painting, children's book illustration, ceramics, and printmaking, she has traveled to various art residencies and exhibited in galleries around the world after graduating from MICA. Her awards include the John Mitchell Foundation, Massachusetts cultural council’s Artist Grants, the Milton &Sally Avery arts foundation grant and a full scholarship from Skowhegan school of painting.