Tanner Minock is a Queer, Xicano, fifth-generation Coloradan, born in Denver and raised in Florence, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Denver in 2014 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a double minor in Marketing and Communications. After completing a formal tattoo apprenticeship in 2015, Tanner tattooed at two Denver tattoo shops before opening and co-owning a private studio.

Tanner’s tattoo work focuses on black and grey geometric/ornamental, botanical, and anatomical subjects.