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Born in 1972 in Aldan, Pennsylvania, O'Neill trained as a fine artist, earning a BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and began tattooing in 1997. He specializes in photorealistic portrait and realism work across color and black and grey, with subjects in portraiture, wildlife, and horror, and his early work was featured in tattoo magazines. He opened his own shop, Shane O'Neill's Infamous Tattoo, in Middletown, Delaware in 2010, and in 2012 he won the inaugural season of Ink Master on Spike, taking the first title in the series; he has also run a second Infamous Tattoo location in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
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