HELLO!
My name is AB Moore, and I am a non-binary trans tattoo artist and illustrator based in Portland, Oregon. I use they/them pronouns. I was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1990, and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina with a lot of pets and play-dough. In 2013, after four years studying painting and dabbling in sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, I started tattooing in as an after hours hobby with a gifted starter kit and a coil machine a friend found in our attic in Baltimore (thanks Matt! Thanks Chris!) In art school, I learned that I enjoyed illustrating album art for local bands and designing posters for community events way more than painting, and switched my artistic focus to screen-printing and a couple short-lived publishing projects. Tattooing filled my late hours in living rooms and basements between restaurant shifts, but gradually became a reliably consistent creative outlet, and an emotional and financial lifeline during an especially challenging time in my life. A couple years later, I moved to California without much of a plan, but tattooing got me there and kept me going. When I could finally quit my day job in the service industry, I moved to Portland, Oregon, where I have been working as a full time licensed tattoo artist since 2017. In 2018, I joined a handful of other artists to open Constellation Tattoo Collective, a small private tattoo studio that is collectively owned and operated by all queer trans artists.
I live with a bunch of friends in north Portland, and have a cat named Mosquito. I love country and emo music, horror movies, ghost stories, folklore, antiques, beach-combing, van camping, record collecting, old buildings, unexplained mysteries, working with my hands, identifying animals, mixtapes, all my gay friends, tourist traps, rock collecting, road trips, and shooting with film. Iām trying to get back into ceramics.
I have a CV available upon request.