Contact / About

Tattooing

There are three ways to get a tattoo with me:

1. I post botanical images you can purchase as a tattoo on the 7th of every month at Co:Create Ink

2. Sign up for my email list. Receive exclusive newsletter and occasional availability. (Subscribe form is on the home page)

3. Visit this page of tattoo ideas, skip the line.

Speaking

David Allen: The Healing Power of Tattoos - TEDx Talk

For more info on my public speaking, click over here.

External

• Artist's mastectomy tattoos reveal the beauty of survival - Chicago Tribune

• Chicago mastectomy tattoo artist expands work, is featured in film - CT

• How Tattoos Are Transforming Mastectomy Scars - US News & World Report

• Tattooists Help Breast Cancer Survivors - Newsweek

• 'Reclaiming Their Beauty' - NPR, WBUR

Press

For press inquiries, please use this form.

Exhibits

Photos and stories have been included in the following exhibits:

2021 Beauty, Fondation d’entreprise Martell / Cognac, France
2020 Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
2019 Beauty, MAK Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna

2018 David Allen: Mastectomy Tattoos and Post-Surgery Healing, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago (local link to view exhibit)

2018 Items: Is Fashion Modern?, MoMA, NYC

Video (short)

Grace - A Breast Cancer Survivor's Fight to Love Her New Body 
My Tattoo, My Story - GHD Campaign

Publication

Moving the Needle on Recovery From Breast Cancer - The Healing Role of Postmastectomy Tattoos - JAMA