Vanesa Del Rey (she/her/they/them) is a Cuban born artist who first learned painting as a child from her Grandmother in Havana. After moving to the US, she pursued her art career enrolling in Illustration and Fine Arts. Her natural appreciation for tattoos only grew after meeting her husband, who guided her into learning the craft. It wasn’t long before she was taking clients in New York at Gnostic Tattoo in 2022, and soon after joined the crew at the White Whale Tattoo Studio in Cincinnati.