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Leo Zulueta
Tattoo artist · Detroit, Michigan
- Style
- Neo-tribal (Polynesian/Borneo/Filipino)
- Regions served
- Global / diaspora
- Tradition
- Filipino · Diaspora
About Zulueta’s work
Widely credited as the father of the modern neo-tribal tattoo movement, drawing heavily on Polynesian, Filipino and Bornean pattern language. His work through Ed Hardy's Tattoo Time in the 1980s reshaped how Polynesian tattoo entered the Western tattoo mainstream.
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Sources & citations
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- Wikipedia — Leo Zulueta ↗en.wikipedia.org
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