Pierre Rogers-Monsalve

Jean-”Pierre” Rogers-Monsalve started his piercing journey at home as a wayward 16 year old with the internet and too much time on his hands. A chance encounter with a piercer would eventually land him a chance at Accurate Body Piercing under the tutelage of David Blair and Gary Green in Miami, Florida, After a year training, and another working at the studio, Pierre decided it was his time to move on and in 2005 became the only piercer at a small tattoo shop called Sik Wit It Tattoos, in Cutler Bay, Florida. During all of this time, he was in constant correspondence with many piercers and eventually began to evolve his own techniques and assimilate others into his own eclectic piercing paradigm. In 2006 Pierre was able to open his own small studio Seppuku inside of another tattoo shop, he eventually became disgusted and drained dealing with 20 dollar piercing mishaps from everyone else in the county, he decided to take his show on the road after receiving the 2007 Al D Scholarship award. He closed down his shop, and began guest spotting as much as possible. He believes that experience to be invaluable to his learning as a piercer, saying “you’ve got to learn how everybody else makes a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you might like their way better”. After four years in the business, he’d guest spotted a few times in Ann Arbor, and felt the town suited him so he stuck around. After almost a year in town, he stopped working at a tattoo shop, and finally made it into PANGEA, where has worked since June of 2008, longer than at any other studio he had worked at before, even his own. Pierre likes doing all sorts of piercings, but is especially fond of oral piercings, surface work, and large gauge piercing work.

Contact: pierre@pangeapiercing.com

Twitter: @PangeaPierre