Chris Garver Biography
Chris Garver is an American tattoo artist and television personality. He is best known for his appearance on the TLC reality television show Miami Ink.
He studied at The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He then attended the School of Visual Arts.
Chris Garver Age
He was born on September 11, 1970 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He is 52 years old as of 2022.
Chris Garver Height
Garver stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inches tall.
Chris Garver Parents / Family
Garver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States to his loving parents as the youngest of three sons. His mother was an artist and encouraged his interest in painting and drawing.
Chris Garver Wife | Chris Garver Married
He is married to Alena Garver since 2013.
Chris Garver Net Worth
Garver has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Chris Garver Tattoo Artist
His first experiment in tattooing was when he was at age 17, after selling his bass guitar in order to purchase his tattoo equipment.
Before Garver started tattooing clients on his own, he was employed for six months before tattooing, and repaired old tattoos that needed touch-ups.
Garver moved to New York City in his early twenties where he became a full-time professional tattoo artist.
Chris Garver Artwork | Chris Garver Paintings | Chris Garver Art
- Mother of All Skulls
- Koi with Maple Leaves
- Tattooed Geisha
Chris Garver Coloring Book | Chris Garver Colouring Book
From Chris Garver–in-demand tattoo artist, illustrator, and former star of TLC’s Miami Ink–comes a richly illustrated coloring book that explores the beauty of nature. With double-sided pages of mostly hand-drawn images, Color Odyssey features elaborate butterflies flitting among gardens of flowers, an octopus in the ocean waves, a fantastic elephant, and many other creatures. Garver’s stunning, intricate drawings will thrill grown-up fans of coloring books.
Originally published: February 4, 2016
Author: Chris Garver
Chris Garver Book
- Animal Odyssey: Coloring from the Familiar to the Fantastic – 2017
- Color Odyssey Fabric Transfer – 2017
- Flash: Coloring in the Tattoo Style – 2016
- Color Odyssey – 2016
- Color Odyssey: A Creative Journey – 2016
- Color Odyssey: Artist’s Edition: Artist’s Edition
Chris Garver Tattoo Shop
The Tattoo Shop is an eight-episode American reality web television series for Facebook Watch that follows James and his former Miami Ink costar Chris Nuñez, more recently known as a judge on Paramount Network’s Ink Master, as they attempt to strike gold once again with the newly opened Liberty City Tattoo in Wynwood.
The show airs two episodes per week, with Thursdays episode offering a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of the artists and their clients. Friday’s episodes feature a live tattoo experience on “Mystery Tattoo”.
Each week, a client agrees to get a tattoo, sight unseen. This tattoo is left in the hands of the Facebook community, who make the creative decisions on the design and where the art is drawn on the body.
Chris Garver Tattoo Prices | Chris Garver Hourly Rate
As far as the hourly rate of a tattooist is concerned, an average tattoo artist salary is around $40 to $150 per hour. Now, as you will increase the caliber and professionalism of a tattoo artist, the price increases up to $200 to $350 per hour. The hourly rate totally depends on the caliber and professionalism of a tattoo artist.
If you search out for a tattoo artist salary per annum, it will range from $20,000 to $90,000. PayScale.com shows that per annum salary of a tattoo artist is around $ 22,456 to $87,713. On the other hand, Salarylist.com shows that a professional tattoo artist earns around $46,561 per annum. The tattoo artist salaries, for sure, vary from country to country. Where there is more exposure to tattoo designs and traditions, there are comparatively more salaries of a tattoo artist.
Chris Garver Miami Ink
Four master artists and an apprentice take viewers inside the world of tattooing as they work to open a tattoo parlour together. The series explores the sometimes poignant stories behind some of the designs and the meaning the wearers attach to them.
First episode date: July 19, 2005
Final episode date: August 21, 2008
Network: TLC
Executive producers: Ami James, Charlie Corwin, Clara Markowicz
Chris Garver Ceramics
Apart from tattooing Garver creates mind blowing ceramics, putting art on three dimensional objects. He says,”In ceramics we are creating objects that will last generations beyond our own.”