PENNY BOY · GUEST SPOT · JACKSON HOLE WY
Jackson Hole collects art the way its valley collects light: deliberately, and at altitude. In a town where the Fall Arts Festival draws serious buyers each September and where the walls of Glenwood Street hold work most cities never see, a full back piece by Penny Boy belongs to the same conversation. When Penny tours through Wyoming, he takes a small handful of commissions here, chosen one at a time.
A closed selection of Penny’s award-winning full backs — see them all & in motion, or view the art gallery.
Jackson Hole understands scarcity as value, and a full back piece is the most uncompromising commission in tattooing: one canvas, one artist, many sittings, no second draft. Penny Boy works only on backs, and he brings the eye of a career built on more than 100 international awards, including Best in Show, to a single spine-to-shoulder composition rendered in neo-traditional, black-and-grey, or full color. This is not walk-in volume work; it is a piece conceived for a collector who already knows the difference between a tattoo and a commissioned artwork, and who wants the latter written on their own skin.
Penny is a destination artist who visits Wyoming on tour rather than keeping a permanent studio here, so dates around the Fall Arts Festival are set case by case. If you'd like a full back piece to line up with that window, apply early through /backs and we'll tell you whether a guest-spot residency is planned near those dates.
No. Penny works by guest-spot, hosted at an established studio in the area when he's touring through Wyoming. You apply first; if your project is accepted, we confirm the host location and sitting schedule with you directly.
It begins with an application at /backs and a look through the portfolio at /art. Penny takes only full back pieces, on application, so the process starts with your idea, references, and timeline. Accepted commissions are planned over multiple sittings during his Wyoming visit.