Don Ed Hardy Biography

Don Ed Hardy is a tattoo artist, painter, and printer. Hardy, who has been fascinated with tattoos since childhood, has honed his skill while continuing to work in more traditional mediums such as painting and sketching. Hardy, a tattoo historian, and mythology expert has produced tattoo exhibitions as well as authored and published tattoo catalogs. In March 1995, Don Hardy partnered with Master Printer Bud Shark to create the Tattoo Royale lithograph portfolio. The spiritual iconography of Nurse Mercy to the autobiographic Frontier Justice is represented in these seven pictures based on traditional tattoo patterns as well as unique imagery. The portfolio includes graphic pictures of a panther, a demon, and a shark. In commemoration of the turn of the century and the Dragon Year, he produced a 500-foot-long scroll painting with 2000 dragons 2000. The scroll has been shown in Santa Monica's Track 16 Gallery, Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art, Ecuador's Cuenca Bienal, and San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Climber, Hardy's most recent print, shows a twisted tiger scaling a spectacular rock structure. Pierced Hearts and True Love, curated by Don Ed Hardy, premiered at The Drawing Center in New York in September 1995 and toured to a number of other institutions. The Honolulu Academy of Art, The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, The San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Achenbach Collection, and the University of Colorado Fine Art Galleries all include works by him.

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