Matéa Lake LeBeau is a multidisciplinary artist and handpoke tattooist based in Brooklyn and Ithaca, NY.

Matéa has been handpoking since 2018, and is now a resident of Gift Shop Tattoo Collective in Brooklyn, NY. She also co-owns and operates Show Pony Studio – an emerging artists’ space, gallery, and private tattoo studio in downtown Ithaca, NY.

Matéa was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, and received her BFA from Cornell University in 2022.  At university she utilized a variety of media (printmaking, sculpture, animation/video, drawing, photography, performance, paper making, and painting) to examine themes of presence, impermanence, and the act of deliberate slowness across artistic disciplines. These days she is most in love with the pencil... 

When not tattooing or drawing, Matéa can be found moonlighting as Joni Bitchell (#71), skating for Gotham Roller Derby’s Brooklyn Bombshells.


matea.lebeau@gmail.com 
@wilsonistheworst

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