Biography

The art of tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher and/or Items from his private collection are used in various exhibitions, paintings, books, articles, magazines and websites.
Celebrities tattooed
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Willy DeVille
  • Lemmy
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Lady Gaga
  • Adam Levine
  • Black Crowes
  • Pearl Jam
  • Herman Brood
  • Keith Haring
  • Anouk
  • Johnny de Mol
  • Arie Boomsma
  • Johnny Heitinga
Exhibitions / collaboration
  • Municipal Museum of Zwolle
  • Parade – throughout the Netherlands
  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam
  • De Appel Centre for Visual arts, Amsterdam
  • Advisor for The Museum of Natural History, New York
  • Museé de la Civilisation, Quebec
  • Westfries Museum, Hoorn
  • Catharina Kapel, Harderwijk
  • Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
  • MAS Museum, Antwerp
  • Halle St. Pierre, Paris
  • Gewerbe Museum, Switzerland
  • Musee Quai Branly, Paris
  • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
  • The Field Museum Chicago
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
  • Royal Delft Museum, Delft
Commercial Collabs
  • Sparta bicycles
  • O’Neill Surfboard and clothing
  • Skateboard
  • Olifant Wodka
  • Pearl Glasses
  • Sony Vaio
  • Canyon
  • Table cloth & napkin Textile Museum Tilburg
  • Nickelson Leather Jacket
  • Orange Babies (charity)
  • Aids funds (charity)
  • Port of Amsterdam
  • Official Soccer Ball Dutch Eredivisie 2017-2018
Publications
  • Heet van de Naald (Dutch autobiographical)
  • De Grote Borneo Expeditie (Dutch: Borneo trip with Anthony Kiedis)
  • Onderhuids
  • Lexicon der Tatoeages
  • Getekend Henk Schiffmacher
  • 1000 Tattoos (Taschen)
  • Encyclopedia for the Art and History of Tattooing
  • Mother
  • True Love
  • Good Luck
  • Anchor
  • The Mingins Photo Collection
  • Schiffmacher Sex, Drugs & Rock-’n-Roll
  • 2020: TASCHEN Tattoo Encyclopedia