frank bonanno

frank bonanno Biography

United States, born 1983

Born on Long Island, the progeny of a honey badger and a gentle breeze, I was always destined for greatness and my life absolutely defies explanation. There has been arrests, kidnappings, international money laundering, car crashes, coyotes, rattlesnakes, haunted sound stages, sociopathic employers, fighting both in and out of the ring, Samuel L Jackson, Barak Obama, Hercules, 50 Cent, Star Wars and The Avengers, stitches, blown backs and super glue, couches, stairwells, evil landlords, national tours, 120 hour work weeks, 40 hour work days, 36 roommates, spectacularly failed relationships and a decade of partying, debauchery, hedonism and anarchy. In that time I have worked professionally as a freelance artist, tattooer, blacksmiths's assistant, production designer and educator. I have also done every nearly every job under the sun in the name of survival. Throughout all of this madness, art has been the one constant and my reason for existing. I am half insane and I no longer relate to the world around me; I have gone through all the hell there is in pursuit of this passion, this love. My only hope is that one day it loves me back as fervently as I love it.  I want to do things that are different. I am not sure how well I am succeeding but I am always trying. But regardless if I make a huge splash or die cold and alone, none of y'all can fuck with this.