Tori Cole (b.1999) was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2015 she moved to Texas to pursue her art education full time and in the summer 2020 she moved to Brooklyn to attend Grand Central Atelier. A passion for art history has led her to draw on a wide range of artists from Johannes Vermeer to Bertha Wegmann, and as far back as the artists of the Northern Renaissance.