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Shawn Barber is an exceptional artist born in 1970 in Cortland, NY. His work focuses mainly on painting, portraiture, and documenting contemporary tattoo culture. His paintings are in private collections in the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia. Shawn has taught drawing, painting, illustration and art business for 8 years in various art schools in the United States. It has also given lectures and painting demonstrations worldwide. His acclaimed series of paintings “‘Tattoed Portraits” ‘reflects the contrast between realistic figurative painting, art history, tattoo culture and enjoy painting. He has worked as an illustrator of commercial success for 10 years. Among its portfolio of clients include, American Airlines, Converse, Target, Verizon T-Mobile, Gatorade, Atlantic Records, Metro, Scholastic, Elektra Records, Grammy Awards, TED Conference The New Yorker, Rollong Stone, Maxim, GO, Sports Illustrated and The Wall Street Journal.

:: Shawn Barber ::