Better known as a groundbreaking tattoo artist, these personal art works by Don Ed Hardy shatter the stereotype to reveal a master of the fine art form.

Look at the fine art paintings and drawings of Don Ed Hardy,and read his biography, and about his exhibitions, collections, and awards.

Prolific expressive artist Don Ed Hardy now focuses on painting, printmaking, and works in other media, exhibited in galleries and museums internationally.

Find information, awards, exhibitions, collections, reviews and resources about artist and author of ‘Wear Your Dreams – My Life in Tattoos’ Don Ed Hardy.

The monumental 4 x 500 foot work , 2000 Dragons, inspired by classical chinese dragon art is impressive in its scale and expansive gesture.

Don Ed Hardy’s tattoo art style was based on intense study of Asian traditions. Now he is shuffling iconography from East and West in surprising new ways.

don ed hardy A Southern California native born in 1945, in 1967 Don Ed Hardy completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.

2000 Dragons. Learn about this monumental, 500 foot long work.

Don Ed Hardy found inspiration in the Los Angeles art scene, Beat poets, surfing, New York painters and fellow students at the San Francisco Art Institute.

These paintings, inspired by the Japanese art master Hokusai, are a response to the more formal compositional qualities in his works. These echo and amplify the complex subject narratives in the originals and embody layers of Asian thought, symbols and forms.