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

Matéa has been handpoking since 2018, now co-owns and operates Show Pony Studio – a gallery, event space, and private 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, paper making, drawing, painting) to examine themes of presence, impermanence, the self, and to process/communicate climate change.

These days her favorite mediums are pencil, pen, and the tattoo needle. 

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


matea.lebeau@gmail.com 
@wilsonistheworst

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