Breanna Cooke is a Dallas-based graphic designer known for her award-winning body paint and costume creations. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Breanna has been creating all her life and earned a B.A. in Studio Art. Breanna’s experiences in body painting began in 2007 when she started incorporating body paint into her extravagant Halloween costumes. Her signature style blurs the lines between what is skin and what is costume or paint. Since 2015, that body paint style has merged with her graphic design work to produce colorful digital art for printed apparel.

As a body painter, Breanna’s work has taken her to the Texas Bodypaint Competition in San Antonio, TX where she placed 1st in 2018 and Living Art America’s North American Bodypainting Championships where she placed 3rd in 2017. She has been a regular body painter at the annual DIFFA Dallas Gala and Fashion Show and she was a body painter for the Horror Nights makeup team at Europa Park in Germany in 2015. Along with painting performers for special events, Breanna provides body painting for music videos, television, Halloween, and maternity photoshoots.

Breanna’s art and apparel collections regularly feature her passion for the environment and climate advocacy. It has led to her collection of climate “artivism” pieces over the years, which range from body painting works, prints, stickers, and activewear. She blends her crisp and clean graphic design sensibilities with vibrant colors to create memorable works of art with a message.

Along with creating her own art collections, Breanna does freelance graphic design work, custom airbrushing and painting projects, and body painting for events and private photoshoots.

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Prior to living in Dallas, Breanna spent the first part of her art career in St. Louis as a full-time graphic designer for book publishing and corporate marketing for a cyber security firm. While living in St. Louis, Breanna also worked with theatre and voice classes at the Center of Creative Arts (COCA) to design costumes and prop pieces for performances. She also led the costumes and props department for summer children’s musicals, Annie and Once On This Island. While in Dallas, Breanna has taught at the Dallas Theater Center Summerstage theater camps teaching costume and prop workshops. As a former competitive Latin ballroom dancer and Scottish Highland dancer, Breanna brings her experience with movement and functionality to her costume work and apparel designs.