Joseph O'Sullivan

Biography He was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Tecla Baranowicz and David O'Sullivan. In 1976, O'Sullivan was a part of a protest of tattooing being banned by New York for which according to the Courier-Post, he had shown his work somewhere near the Museum of Modern Art. He had stated that "Tattooing is perfectly safe". In 1978, O'Sullivan was arrested for tattooing without a license. In 1981, he had shown his work again from 1976 for which pornographic actress and sex educator Annie Sprinkle had taken part in what he was doing. O'Sullivan had a legal case about his tattooing work for which New York had let go of the prohibity. He was also an author of two books.

O'Sullivan died in July 2022 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in Asheville, North Carolina, at the age of 78.