Leaf Chang is a multidisciplinary Taiwanese-American artist and musician, living and tattooing in New York City since 2002. Best known for tattooing faces and other difficult parts of the anatomy, he has unwittingly been at the cutting edge of many of the tattoo trends that have arisen worldwide in the last decade.
In 2012, he opened Gnostic Tattoo in Brooklyn, the first shop in the low-income neighborhood of Bushwick, planting the seeds for what would become a burgeoning tattoo community, epicenter of the next generation of tattooing in NYC. In 2025 Gnostic closed its storefront, and took the experience indoors, off the street. |
Leaf can now be found tattooing privately in Bushwick. He also takes appointments at the Chelsea Hotel, Punk Alley, and other magical spaces in New York.