Steve Butcher (born August 13, 1989) is a tattoo artist well known for his focus on color portraits and photorealism.

Butcher was born on August 13, 1989 in Auckland, New Zealand. Not much information is known about his family, education and early life.

Steve started tattooing in 2011 when a friend suggested he apply his artwork on the human body.

His first job in his career was at the Auckland City tattoo parlor named Streetwise.

For more than five years, he learnt and worked alongside the best artists in the world, artists such as Carlos Torres, Dean Sacred, Erin Chance, Mick Squires, Nikko Hurtado, Randy Engelhard, Robert Herandez, Yomico Moreno, and Paul Booth among others

His work is greatly influenced by pop culture; ranging from portraits of legendary sports icons, musicians and movie stars to portraits of loved ones, comic book characters, animals and many others.

He embraces a style of tattooing known as hyper-realism; a category of tattoo art characterized by the depiction of real life and photo-realism.

As a result of his famous style of tattooing, his work has been featured on ESPN, CBS, CBC, USA Today, Bleacher Report, VICE and many other notable media outlets.

He is now based in Corona, California where he continues to learn and share his passion for tattoo art.

He has more than 1.2 million followers on his stevebutchertattoos Instagram account.