Chris Garver
Presenter, Visual Artist
1970 –
Who is Chris Garver?
Chris Garver is a tattoo artist featured on the TLC reality television show Miami Ink.
Garver was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he attended The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Garver's mother was an artist and encouraged his interest in painting and drawing. He first experimented with tattooing at age 17, after selling his bass guitar in order to purchase his tattoo equipment. Garver attended the School of Visual Arts and apprenticed for six months, repairing old tattoos that needed touch-ups, before he started tattooing clients on his own. In his early twenties, Garver moved to New York City where he became a full-time professional tattoo artist.
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- Born
- Sep 11, 1970
Pittsburgh - Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School
- School of Visual Arts
- Lived in
- Pittsburgh
- Japan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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