PENNY BOY · GUEST SPOT · SALT LAKE CITY UT
Salt Lake City has quietly become one of the Mountain West's most serious tattoo towns, and its convention draws collectors who care about craft over noise. When Penny Boy tours through Utah on a guest spot, he comes for one thing only: full back pieces, built for people who treat their spine like a canvas worth a lifetime.
A closed selection of Penny’s award-winning full backs — see them all & in motion, or view the art gallery.
A full back is not a session, it is a relationship, and the collectors drawn to Salt Lake City's art-forward scene understand that better than most. Penny Boy has spent his career refusing the sampler-plate approach, dedicating himself entirely to large-scale backs in neo-traditional, black-and-grey and color. With over 100 awards and multiple Best in Show honors behind him, he arrives in Utah not to fill a chair but to build one commanding piece worth the wait. In a market where almost no one specializes in the back alone, being chosen for a guest spot means your project gets an artist who thinks in full-spine architecture from the first line.
Penny Boy travels to Utah on select guest spots and is drawn to the kind of art-led collectors the Salt Lake City convention attracts. He does not keep a fixed studio here, so exact dates depend on his tour calendar. Submit your back project through the application and we'll tell you when he's next planning to be in the area.
No. Penny Boy is a destination artist with no permanent Utah studio. He works from host studios during limited guest spots, which is why full back projects are taken by application rather than walk-in.
Full back pieces only, in neo-traditional, black-and-grey or color. He does not take small or medium work on these trips. You can see completed backs in the gallery before you apply.