World's Top 100 Artists

Artists ranked in alphabetical order

Stefano Alcantara

Fort Lauderdale, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM COLOUR REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR

Ryan Ashley DiCristina

Grand Junction, USA

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM ORNAMENTAL JEWELLERY DESIGN

Sam Barber

Manchester, UK

COLOUR REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR SURREALISM

Eduardo Lozano Barreto (Duda)

São Paulo, Brazil

EMBROIDERY / PATCH STYLE COLOUR REALISM ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE COLOUR ILLUSTRATION

Ivana Belakova

Los Angeles, USA

WATERCOLOUR POP ART COLOUR ILLUSTRATION

Noah Bissi

Montréal, Canada

HYPER-REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY

Lewis Black

Lisbon, Portugal

GEOMETRIC BLACKWORK BLACKWORK GRAPHIC BLACKWORK

Léah Blum

Paris, France

ORNAMENTAL FINE-LINE

Paul Booth

New York, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM DARK SURREALISM HORROR BIOMECHANICAL / BIOMECHANIC FANTASY FREEHAND

Samuele Briganti

Florence, Italy

AMERICAN TRADITIONAL

Steven Bugeja (Stevo)

New York, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM OPAQUE GREY REALISM SURREALISM CALLIGRAPHIC ACCENTS

Thomas Carli Jarlier

Clermont-Ferrand, France

BLACK & GREY REALISM SURREALISM OPAQUE GREY REALISM ABSTRACT REALISM ABSTRACT TATTOOS

Cristian Casas

Tenerife, Spain

NEO-TRADITIONAL NEO-REALISM DARK ORNAMENTAL

Jie Chen

Beijing, China

WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE XIEYI BRUSHWORK FINE-LINE PAINTERLY / FINE ART INTEGRATION

Brando Chiesa

Milan, Italy

NEO-TRADITIONAL ANIME DESIGN PASTEL GORE CYBERSIGILISM GOTHIC / ANIME STYLE

Remigijus Cizauskas (Remis)

Kaunas, Lithuania

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR

Nico Del Grosso

New York, USA

FINE-LINE MICRO-REALISM CHROME REALISM

Arlo DiCristina

Grand Junction, USA

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM SURREALISM

Kelly Doty

Salem, USA

NEW SCHOOL ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE COLOUR ILLUSTRATION

Aleksandra Dovgal (Sasha)

Los Angeles, USA

FINE-LINE BOTANICAL / FLORAL DESIGN BLACK & GREY REALISM MANDALA

Josh Duffy

Peoria, USA

DARK ART BLACK & GREY REALISM BIOMECHANICAL / BIOMECHANIC

Ryan Evans

Auckland, New Zealand

BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY

Sergio Fernández

Málaga, Spain

BLACK & GREY REALISM MICRO-REALISM NEOCLASSICAL

Dillon Forte

Austin, USA

GEOMETRIC BLACKWORK BLACK & GREY REALISM DOTWORK / STIPPLING LINEWORK MANDALA

Joaquin Ganga (Ganga)

Los Angeles, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM MICRO-REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY

Phil Garcia

Port Hueneme, USA

COLOUR REALISM BOTANICAL / FLORAL DESIGN HYPER-REALISM

Daniel Gulliver

Brighton And Hove, UK

ETCHING / ENGRAVING COLOUR REALISM

Pablo Gutierrez (Certified Letter Boy)

London, UK

FINE-LINE LINEWORK LETTERING MICRO-REALISM

Rich Hardy

Brisbane, Australia

AMERICAN TRADITIONAL ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE

Robert Hernandez

New York, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM DARK ART HORROR FANTASY FREEHAND

Kubrick Ho

Taipei, Taiwan

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE BLACK & GREY REALISM ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE ORNAMENTAL EAST ASIAN MOTIFS BOTANICAL / FLORAL DESIGN

Minh Hoàng

Hanoi, Vietnam

BLACK & GREY REALISM STONE TEXTURE EAST ASIAN MOTIFS FREEHAND

Nikko Hurtado

Hesperia, USA

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR

YongSeop Hwang (Dragon)

New York, USA

MICRO-REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM FINE-LINE LINEWORK

Shigenori Iwasaki (Shige)

Yokohama, Japan

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE FREEHAND

Deanna James (The Painterly Tattooer)

Dallas, USA

COLOUR REALISM PAINTERLY REALISM

Matt Jordan

Auckland, New Zealand

BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY

David Benjamin Kaye

Auckland, New Zealand

COLOUR REALISM HYPER-REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR COLOUR ILLUSTRATION

Georgios Kazakis

Berlin, Germany

SCRIPTURE CYBERSIGILISM ABSTRACT TATTOOS

Lifo Kim (Lifo)

Seoul, South Korea

COLOUR REALISM ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTURED JADE DESIGN COLOUR ILLUSTRATION MINIMAL TATTOO

Jung-Hyun Kim (PittaKKM)

Seoul, South Korea

COLOUR ILLUSTRATION KOREAN TRADITIONAL (INCL. DANCHEONG OBANGSAEK PALETTE) MINIMAL TATTOO ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE ORIENTAL COLOUR REALISM

Levgen Knysh

Los Angeles, USA

COLOUR REALISM SURREALISM

Sanghyuk Ko (Mr.K)

New York, USA

FINE-LINE MICRO-REALISM LETTERING CUSTOM SCRIPT

Zlata Kolomoyskaya (Goldy)

New York, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM HYPER-REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY MICRO-REALISM MINIMAL TATTOO PET & ANIMAL PORTRAITS

Eden Kozokaro (Kozo)

New York, USA

COLOUR REALISM MICRO-REALISM POP SURREALISM PAINTERLY / FINE ART INTEGRATION POP ART

Luka Lajoie

Montréal, Canada

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR POP ART

Benjamin Laukis

Athens, Greece

HYPER-REALISM COLOUR REALISM SURREALISM LETTERING CALLIGRAPHIC ACCENTS

Sang-jin Lee (Polyc)

Seoul, South Korea

POLYGONAL ABSTRACT SURREALISM COLOUR REALISM MINIMAL TATTOO

Dongkyu Lee (Q)

Los Angeles, USA

HYPER-REALISM COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM MICRO-REALISM BLUE INK "CERAMIC SKIN"

Oleksandra Lanchukova (Sasha Unisex)

Lviv, Ukraine

WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE COLOUR ILLUSTRATION

Tritoan Ly

Auckland, New Zealand

ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE FINE-LINE LINEWORK BOTANICAL / FLORAL DESIGN

Timur Lysenko

Katowice, Poland

ABSTRACT TATTOOS SURREALISM BLACKWORK TRASH POLKA

Chaim Machlev

Los Angeles, USA

GEOMETRIC BLACKWORK LINEWORK MANDALA BLACKWORK

Alexey Mashkov

New York, USA

COLOUR REALISM POP ART GRAFFITI STYLE PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR SURREALISM

Chris Mata'afa (Showstoppr)

Melbourne, Australia

BLACK & GREY REALISM SILVERWASH REALISM COLOUR REALISM

Marco C. Matarese

Milan, Italy

ETCHING / ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE LINEWORK DOTWORK / STIPPLING

Mayonaize

Melbourne, Australia

LETTERING CUSTOM SCRIPT CALLIGRAPHIC ACCENTS ABSTRACT TATTOOS

Brent McCown

Aotearoa, New Zealand

TRIBAL POLYNESIAN / SAMOAN TATAU TĀ MOKO

Keith McCurdy (Bang Bang)

New York, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM SURREALISM MICRO-REALISM MAGIC INK

Coen Mitchell

Auckland, New Zealand

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM MOSAIC GEOMETRIC MANDALA DOTWORK / STIPPLING ORNAMENTAL ORNAMENTAL JEWELLERY DESIGN

Waler Montero

New York, USA

COLOUR REALISM SURREALISM

Cheon Moon

Seoul, South Korea

COLOUR ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE XIEYI BRUSHWORK CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE EAST ASIAN MOTIFS

Dmitrii Naboka

Düsseldorf, Germany

MODERN JAPANESE / NEO-JAPANESE JAPANESE ORIENTAL / MANGA-INSPIRED NEO-TRADITIONAL

Yoshihito Nakano (Horiyoshi III)

Yokohama, Japan

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE FREEHAND

Matteo Nangeroni

Padua, Italy

ABSTRACT TATTOOS SURREALISM GRAPHIC BLACKWORK

Kenji Nishigaki (Gakkin)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

BLACKWORK ORNAMENTAL GEOMETRIC BLACKWORK CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE

Ralf Nonnweiler

Neunkirchen, Germany

BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY HYPER-REALISM MICRO-REALISM

Nick Noonan

Christchurch, New Zealand

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR NEO-TRADITIONAL NEO-REALISM NEO-MODERN

Dmytro Nosov

Berlin, Germany

BLACKWORK JAPANESE ORIENTAL / MANGA-INSPIRED NEO-MODERN

Evan Olin

Cranston, USA

PAINTERLY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR HORROR WILDLIFE

Matteo Pasqualin

Brembate Sotto, Italy

BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY SURREALISM CONCEPTUAL / ABSTRACT INTEGRATIONS PET & ANIMAL PORTRAITS

Dave Paulo

Praia de Mira, Portugal

COLOUR REALISM POP ART REALISTIC POP ART

Andrea Pellerone

Milan, Italy

BLACK & GREY REALISM MICRO-REALISM CONCEPTUAL REALISM LINEWORK

Victor Portugal

Krakow, Poland

BLACK & GREY REALISM DARK ART BIOMECHANICAL / BIOMECHANIC SURREALISM DARK SURREALISM FREEHAND

Samu Rico

Madrid, Spain

BLACK & GREY REALISM HYPER-REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY

Sandry Riffard

Le Puy-en-Velay, France

HYPER-REALISM COLOUR REALISM HORROR FANTASY SURREALISM DARK SURREALISM

David Rinklin (Neon Judas)

Berlin, Germany

BLACK & GREY REALISM BLACKWORK DARK SURREALISM ABSTRACT TATTOOS PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY CONCEPTUAL / ABSTRACT INTEGRATIONS

Jesse Rix

Keene, USA

COLOUR REALISM ABSTRACT TATTOOS HYPER-REALISM

Mike Rubendall

New York, Manhattan, USA

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE

Dean Sacred

Auckland, New Zealand

TRADITIONAL JAPANESE

Dmitriy Samohin

Odesa, Ukraine

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM HYPER-REALISM SURREALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY PORTRAIT REALISM COLOUR NEO-REALISM

Samuel Schiavone

Żejtun, Malta

BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY

Julian Siebert (Corpsepainter)

Munich, Germany

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM BIOMECHANICAL / BIOMECHANIC FREEHAND

Daniel Silva

Los Angeles, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM MICRO-REALISM FINE-LINE LINEWORK MANDALA

Kindamo Simone (Kindamo)

Rome, Italy

BLACK & GREY REALISM LETTERING GRAFFITI STYLE

Jesse Smith

Richmond, USA

NEW SCHOOL COLOUR ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE FANTASY FREEHAND

Eunmi Song

Los Angeles, USA

COLOUR ILLUSTRATION ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE MINIMAL TATTOO MICRO-REALISM

Alex Sorsa

Seattle, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM NEO-MODERN DOTWORK / STIPPLING

Mick Squires

Melbourne, Australia

COLOUR REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM SURREALISM DARK ART

Michael Stockings

Suffolk, UK

NEO-TRADITIONAL NEON / GLOW STYLE

Sam Taylor

Byron Bay, Australia

LETTERING CUSTOM SCRIPT VICTORIAN/HOLLOW LETTERING

Carlos Torres

Long Beach, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM ORNAMENTAL DARK ART SURREALISM

Dmitry Troshin

Lake Forest, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM MICRO-REALISM FINE-LINE DOTWORK / STIPPLING

Bob Tyrell

Detroit, USA

BLACK & GREY REALISM PORTRAIT REALISM BLACK & GREY HORROR DARK ART

Okan Uçkun

New York, USA

MINIMALISM FINE-LINE LINEWORK

Jon Vasey (Sway)

Leeds, UK

AMERICAN TRADITIONAL

Brian Woo (Doc Woo)

Los Angeles, USA

FINE-LINE MICRO-REALISM BLACK & GREY REALISM

Mark Wosgerau

Aarhus, Denmark

BLACK & GREY REALISM SURREALISM

Heng Yue

Yueyang, China

BLACK & GREY REALISM CYBORG STYLE BIOMECHANICAL / BIOMECHANIC

BBrung

Seoul, South Korea

BLACKWORK ILLUSTRATION / ILLUSTRATIVE NEO-MODERN

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

The SKINGRAPHICA Global Artist Rankings are an independent editorial initiative recognising excellence in tattoo artistry worldwide. Inclusion is determined solely through editorial assessment and is not influenced by any commercial arrangements or collaborations.

While some artists may collaborate with SKINGRAPHICA in advisory capacities on product development or cultural insight, such relationships do not constitute endorsement, sponsorship, or preferential treatment within the rankings. No payment, compensation, or consideration is given for inclusion. All names appear for identification and editorial purposes only.