Mike Giant pioneer of urban tattooing in New York City

Roughly speaking, the urban artist and tattoo artist Mike Giant, born in upstate New York at an undetermined date but living in San Francisco (USA), can be considered a creative entity that gathers all the characteristics of what is known as a genuine New Yorker.

In fact, although as I have already mentioned at the beginning of this post, he moved to the west coast of the United States. After a brief but intense experience, he decides to pack his meager belongings and return to the city of skyscrapers.

Where he observes and witnesses how the new forms of urban expression take over the public space. Bringing with him other aesthetic airs that revolutionize the narratives in an urban context unknown until then.

Proposals that for him meant a change of artistic direction, becoming the prototype of the unconventional urban artist. A nuance that can be perceived as soon as you observe his works and pay attention to their details.

Although it should be noted that apart from his purely urban activity, his career covers all disciplines that one can imagine, graffiti, photography, skateboarding, biking, alternative clothing designer, illustration. But perhaps his best known facet and for which he has become a reference for a whole generation is for his work as a tattoo artist.

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Mike Giant's life and artistic experience runs parallel to the cultural and social chronicle of the West in the last three decades, this transformation can be seen throughout his career. How all these influences have been shaping his particular universe.

Contributing to the development of a personality represented by multiple nuances that are reflected in his work, regardless of the approach and the creative area where he works.

Now in his forties he has embarked on perhaps his most ambitious project, the launch of the clothing and accessories brand Rebel 8, which has meant for his career a territory in which to pour all his creativity and experience.