It feels significant for Hardy to have his work shown at one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco — when he was a student at SFAI, he would take the bus out to the de Young’s sister
Hardy is hopeful that his upcoming museum show will help expose the medium, and his contributions to the form, to an even broader audience. “In addition to the tens of thousands of tattoos I did
As a young boy, Ed Hardy was so fascinated by tattoos that he established his own tattoo shop in the den of his family home, where he applied designs to his friends’ skin with colored pencils and his mother’s Maybelline eyeliner. After studying printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Hardy took the lessons he learned from old master printmakers and, in a career that spanned
This past weekend, Hardy, whose real name is Edward Thomas Hardy, made an appearance at the 2022 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship in Milton Keynes, England. And not only did he show up – he
In 2011, he sold the Ed Hardy label to New York–based Iconix Brand Group for $62 million. “Christian was, first of all, a very hard worker,” said Hubert Guez, who was the chief executive of Ed Hardy from 2008 to 2012 and had been holding vigil at the hospital with Audigier’s wife, Nathalie, hours before he died.
Through 300 paintings, prints, drawings and objects, "Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin" is the first retrospective of his work and shows how Hardy intertwined fine art with tattooing to push both
Ed Hardy, also known as Don Ed Hardy, is one of the most well-respected tattoo artists in the world. Biography. Born in 1945 in Southern California, his destiny seemed clear when, at the age of 10, he opened a makeshift tattoo shop in mother's house where he drew tattoos on the neighborhood kids. In the 1960s, Hardy attended the San Francisco
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