amador z visual artist tattoo artist

Amador Z (b. 1994, Lima) is a visual artist, self-taught photographer, and tattoo artist based in Cusco, Peru. His practice engages with identity and memory, exploring how personal and cultural histories are encoded in gestures and skin. Working across photography, installation, video, and ink, his work reflects on embodiment, relationships, and the ways images and experiences are shaped over time. 

Alongside his visual work, he practices custom tattooing, bringing his photographic and conceptual sensibilities into the skin. He understands tattooing as a careful, collaborative process through which ideas, images, and personal narratives become part of the body, connecting surface and lived experience in a direct and lasting way.