Coney Island USA Artists

Coney Island USA is thrilled to be working with the immensely talented local artists and designers you see below. 

Be sure to visit us at 1208 Surf Avenue to immerse yourself in their art and show your support by following them on social media.
Keep your eyes glued to this page as we continue to add more remarkable artists to our Coney Island USA family. 

Spencer Alexander

Spencer Alexander is a Brooklyn based artist and designer. His illustration and design work is featured on album covers and in various publications, and his hand painted signs and murals can be seen across the five boroughs. When he's not drawing, Spencer enjoys painting landscapes, playing bass in his rock & roll band, and taking long walks with his pup Bea.

David Lawrence Byrd

Two Time Emmy Award Winning Motion Graphics Designer & Creative Director.

Co-creator of the Hey Poopy Podcast, which won best short animation at the 2021 Coney Island Film Festival.

Currently the Creative Director at at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.

Made the New York Times 2020 Top 20 Illustrations of the year for the front page illustration Arts & Leisure section: The Lost Generation of Black Directors.

Winning photo and illustration which have appeared in American Photography and American Illustration books.

Motion Graphics for various films including: Cured, Pulling John, Pindemonium, Iris, The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose, Revenge of the Mekons, Mr. Chibbs.

Almudena Caminero

Almudena Caminero is a Brooklyn-based visual artist originally from Spain. Heavily influenced by a lifelong passion for storytelling through imagery and her work creating atmospheric spaces for film and television sets, her paintings often feature peculiar characters like carnival workers and performers against unique and moody backdrops that play an equal role in the story at hand. These works — infused with horror, surrealism, and magic realism — are brief glimpses of their subjects in private moments, turning the viewer into a voyeur. 

She often works serially, creating groups of paintings that tell a single piece of a larger story. As if flipping through a stranger’s photographs of a single event or observing intimacy out of context through a peephole, viewers are left to imagine the subjects’ lives and complete the overall narrative themselves. 

Pieces from one of her recent series After the Carnival is Gone, which focuses on the sideshow performers of Coney Island, have been exhibited at Cargo Project Gallery in Bushwick or the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Red Hook. Other frequent subjects include abnormal anatomies of the Human Body, Classic Horror Characters and sadness and desolation such as Coney Island in the wintertime.

Donald David

Donald David is a printmaker and freelance illustrator. He has done illustrations for the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Scholastic Books, DC comics and other publishers. For Coney Island USA, he created a banner for the Freak Bar, a Congress of Curious Peoples poster and a Coney Island Circus Sideshow poster.

Freak Bar banner photo by Laure Leber

Jennie Jones

Instagram- @planet_zoot

I mostly gravitate towards neon and sea creature themes so it is obvious why Coney Island inspires me so much and feeds my creativity. There is also a touch of darkness and mystery about this place with is extra delicious. I grew up on the beach in New Jersey with Asbury Park minutes away, coming here makes me feel nostalgic, inspired and full of emotion.

I am a proud member of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club.
I have a BFA from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
I am the Creative Director at Liora Manné in NYC.
I do freelance pattern designs and work on my own art in the wee hours.

Laure A. Leber

I have been working in New York for the past 35 years documenting my peers and creating a diary of the world around me. I think of myself as a visual sociologist. In my work I focus on finding the extraordinary in the ordinary, of documenting the heightened moments in the simple everyday mosaic. An exploration of female identity and women’s socialization is prevalent in my photographs. I capture images of the social rituals of life. My work attempts to get beneath the surface and connect the observer with the subject on a personal level, this behind-the-scene style captures real moments that sparkle with the sublime through an intensely focused labor of love.

Danielle Mastrion

Danielle Mastrion is a Mural Artist & Painter born & raised in Brooklyn, NY in the Coney Island / Sheepshead Bay area. She has been painting murals locally and internationally for 11 years, and live painting at events around the world for the last 15 years. She earned her B.F.A from Parsons School of Design. Danielle also works as a teaching artist for mural painting when she’s not busy beautifying her city one wall at a time.

Danielle’s art has led her to working with Nike, Netflix, Director Spike Lee on multiple projects, the NY Governors Office for murals at Shirley Chisholm State Park, the historic 5Pointz Building, The Bushwick Collective, and her work can be found all over her home neighborhood of Coney Island. In Coney Island she’s had the honor of painting murals for & creating artwork for Coney Island USA, The Mermaid Parade, Denos Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, The Coney Island Brewery, Luna Park NYC, The Coney Island Amphitheater, The NY Aquarium, Rubys Bar & Grill, The Coney Island History Project, Gargiulos Restaurant, and inside the famous Cyclone Rollercoaster! When she is not painting, she is a proud member of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club.

Erin Mathewson

Erin is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist focusing mainly on pop-up paper engineering and relief printmaking.  She fell in love with Coney Island when she first visited for a drawing class in 2003.  It was instant inspiration and images of Coney Island and the Sideshow are her favorite to depict. 

In 2021 she was selected to complete 5 murals in Coney Island on W12th St by the boardwalk and is thrilled to have her work publicly displayed in her favorite place.

Lisa Marie Pompilio

Lisa Marie Pompilio is an award-winning Art Director at Orbit Books and freelance print designer.

Born and raised in South Brooklyn. Making dreams come true one photoshop at a time.

Lisa Marie Pompilio

Eliza Rinn

Eliza Rinn is a Brooklyn based photographer and mixed media artist. Her work is inspired by the surreal language of the street that follows us on walls, signs, payphones, parking meters, and any other random spot you can think of.

Eliza has a BFA in Photography and Master of Library and Information Science degree from Pratt Institute.

Pat Redding Scanlon

Pat Redding Scanlon painted 7 new banners for the 2023 freakshow entry. Pat swears that “Making art with freaks is my calling!” Witness her recent cartoon of a 4-headed monster looming over an ‘80s NYC skyline (for the band FREAKS legacy lp) which inspired the composition of these new canvases, all bordered across their bottoms with vintage Coney landscapes. Pat lives in Queens with her tattooed Irish architect husband Frank and rockin’ teenager Val.

Pat’s storytelling c.v tells of time at Marvel Comics…she’s also animated for MTV, developed comic strips at United Feature Syndicate, and put together pop culture paperbacks (the pinnacle: “CONFESSIONS OF A RAT FINK: The Life & Times of Ed Big Daddy Roth”). Going way back in the time machine, Pat copublished a zine (“ZAT”) that published what we think is the first work in print by Anthony Bourdain.

Band T-shirts, logos and album artwork are another specialty of Pat’s, plus graphics aplenty for notorious names in the biker community (Indian Larry/Bayonet Bros/Paul Cox). ATOMIC SMASH! is a 2022 card game out now with Pat’s range of illustrations of cute to mutant character manifestations of the elements of the periodic table.

Ms. Redding Scanlon’s designs showcase fancy handlettering and hot caricatures in dynamic poses with accurate likenesses. A recent exhibit featured small paintings on found wood, all pirates, wizards and circus lettering. She loves quilting, plus she sells vintage and handmade goods on Etsy and eBay. Pat is beyond delighted to be in this talented team of prodigious professionals who make the magic happen at Coney Island USA and Sideshows by the Seashore.

Magie Serpica (McGowan)

Magie Serpica (McGowan), a Brooklyn native, is a seasoned tattoo artist with over two decades of experience, who began her tattoo journey at Coney Island's Bowery back in 2002. Alongside her tattooing career, Magie is an illustrator and muralist always trying to keep it weird. Magie designed the 2024 Mermaid Parade poster featuring Joe Coleman and Whitney Ward. Along with the poster, Magie created two original shirts that will be sold at the 2024 parade and beyond, in the Coney Island gift shop. One of her banners is prominently featured on the facade on Coney Island USA. Magie owns her tattoo shop, Home Sweet Home Tattoo in Maplewood NJ. She has tattooed dozens of the cast members of the sideshow and Coney Island regulars for over two decades, and has been a part of Coney Island since birth.

Keri Sheheen

Keri Sheheen is an artist born and raised in Staten Island, NY. Primarily, her focus is illustration and design, drawing inspiration from folklore, macabre characters, local history and the strange. She also has a growing body of mixed media work dedicated to vintage forms of animation and motion in combination with printmaking and optical illusions. Keri received a BFA in Printmaking from SUNY New Paltz in 2013. She has exhibited work in galleries and shows throughout the tri-state area, including the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island's Artspace and the Alice Austen Museum. In 2018, Keri partnered with Coney Island USA to design their annual Mermaid Parade t-shirt, and again in 2021 to design and paint new parade banners. In 2021 she also launched her traveling print company and art brand, Parlor Trick Prints LLC, specializing in digital prints on wood, t-shirts and other merchandise, as well as lasercut goods from her home studio. In addition, she became host to the Parlor Trick Print Exchange, an annual program connecting printmakers across the United States with small print editions. Keri currently lives and works from her haunted Victorian apartment with her partner, Carl and 2 cats, Charlie and Evelyn Bean.