Duke Riley is the esteemed founder of East River Tattoo in Brooklyn, New York. His extensive career in tattooing began in 1993, apprenticing under Steve Williamson at Art Freak Tattoo in Providence, RI. Over the years, Duke has honed his craft across various tattoo shops in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and New Zealand. As an artist, his tattooing style is deeply influenced by maritime folk art and 19th-century traditional tattooing, often featuring imagery that evokes antique nautical charts, woodcuts, engravings, and scrimshaw. Beyond tattooing, Duke is an accomplished artist working in diverse mediums, with his artwork exhibited in international museums and held in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
