Jeremy Garrett: Artist - Illustrator
Garrett is a contemporary artist, born and raised in Tennessee. Jeremy Garrett attended high school at Central High in Memphis. There he won six gold medals in the National Scholastics Art Awards Competition, the first time in the High School's history. Jeremy Garrett received scholarship and graduated from one of the country’s most acclaimed institutions, the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City. There he majored in comic design and illustration. While in college, Garrett started his own commercial art/fine art studio located in Manhattan's East Village and called it Black Work Studio.
While being a classical trained fine artist, and heavily influenced by the Golden Era cartoons, Garrett’s commercial style naturally lends itself to a cutting edge mix of urban grunge and comic book art with a touch of post-surrealism. Affluent collectors and top executives from Fortune 500 companies such as FedEx, ABC and members of the Grand Lodge of New York’s Masonic Order are only a few collectors who enjoy his diversity as an artist. As an accomplished graphic designer he has worked with clients such as Kodak, Ralph Loren, Johnson and Johnson, Lockheed Martin and ABC News. His work has also been featured in publications throughout the country as well as the internationally acclaimed Japanese GQ.
Garrett started tattooing while in college when tattooing in NYC was illegal. He learned the trade from Danny Brown Paolicelli, a peer at S.V.A. In February of 1997 on the day that tattooing was legalized in the City, Garrett converted part of his design studio into a tattoo parlor and called it Black Work Tattoos. It was a fortuitous career shift forever establishing Garrett as NYARTMAN - Gotham's Inkslinging Superhero. Garrett founded the Tattoo Artist’s Guild (T.A.G.) in 2008, an international body of talented tattoo artists dedicated to elevating and advancing the art of tattooing. Garrett no longer tattoos and now focuses exclusively on fine art and design.
From 2000-2006 Garrett taught commercial art at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts, which was one of New York City’s premier commercial art public high schools. After which Garrett moved to Israel and once again returned to his roots as a traditional trained fine arts painter. His work was displayed in various galleries in Jerusalem and in 2007 he won a nationally sponsored Israeli artist grant. He and his family moved back to NYC in 2008.
Beth Rivkah Lubavitch published his first illustrative children’s book, "Chassie Learns about Chessed" written by Chava Isacovitch in 2022. Also in 2022, Garrett complimented his artistic skills by obtaining Rabbinical ordination in an endeavor to bring more joy and light in the world. In 2025 Garrett won the Chassidus in Color First Place Professional's Level Art Awards with a painting in oils depicting Nachshon ben Aminadav. Nachshon was the biblical prince of tribe of Judah from the exodus. It was through his merit that God performed one of the greatest spectacles of all time and parted the Red Sea before the Israelites, leading them to safety. These days Garrett continues to use his art to bring smiles to as many faces as possible.
