PJ Eagle

PJ Eagle is a queer Canadian-based oil painter and tattoo artist originally from Hamilton, Ontario. Raised in an artistic family, his gravitation toward the visual arts was both natural and inevitable. From an early age, Eagle was immersed in creative exploration, alongside his twin brother, fostering a curiosity that would later shape a multidisciplinary career rooted in both technical skill and emotional depth for both of them. In 2007, he attended Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario, where he studied Visual and Creative Arts. During this time, he experimented with a wide range of media and practices, developing a strong foundational understanding of form, colour, and visual storytelling.

After exploring various artistic avenues, Eagle found his true calling in tattooing, beginning his professional tattoo career in 2012. Since then, he has dedicated himself to honing the craft, balancing precision with expressive freedom. In 2015, he relocated and continues to live and work on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation (Ottawa). While tattooing remains a central pillar of his practice, Eagle has recently been driven by an innate desire to return to fine art, marking a period of self-reinvention through oil painting.

In 2025, Eagle bridged the worlds of tattooing and fine art by translating one of his original oil paintings onto a human canvas at the Inked Circus Tattoo Show in Niagara Falls, ON. Over the course of the three day convention, onlookers witnessed a live melding of two artistic practices, offering a rare and immersive demonstration of his interdisciplinary approach to creativity.