Matéa Lake LeBeau

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Matéa Lake LeBeau

Esmé Saccuccimorano

Julianne Hunter



Matéa Lake LeBeau is a multidisciplinary artist and handpoke tattooist living in Brooklyn, working in both NYC and Ithaca, NY. 

“What is permanent within us? What do we deem important enough to make permanent? What is the meaning of permanence in a time of such great instability, erasure, and destruction? I hope to spark meditations on these ideas - both in others and within myself - through material play across artistic disciplines. I have found that the creation of a tattoo can bring about tender, vulnerable, and decisive moments of exchange between people. The slow and devotional process of the hand poked tattoo keeps me present. As a result, the preciousness of human connecteness becomes emboldened, and its necessity ever more tangible, even in the most uncertain and precarious of times.”

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Matéa received her BFA from Cornell University in 2022.  Her work examines themes of presence, impermanence, and the act of deliberate slowness across artistic disciplines.  In the past she has utilized sculpture, printmaking, fiber arts, animation, video, graphite drawing, photography, performance art, paper making, and painting to process and investigate the fragility of the present ecological moment we inhabit.

Matéa is a licensed, self taught hand poke tattoo artist.  She’s been practicing since 2018, and now co-owns and operates Show Pony Studio, an emerging artists’ space, gallery, and private tattoo studio in downtown Ithaca, NY.  She also works at THISTLE, a cohort of 8 tattoo artists in Brooklyn.  Tattooing has become her way of staying present and directly creating meaning with others.  Let her know if you want a tattoo, she’d love to give you one <3
When not tattooing or drawing, Matéa can be found moonlighting as #71 Joni Bitchell, skating for Ithaca Roller Derby’s SufferJets.





To see Matéa’s work, visit matealebeau.com


email matea.lebeau@gmail.com for further inquiries

email wilsonistheworst@gmail.com for further tattoo inquiries



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