Cheyenne Sookoo is an award-winning, self-taught artist. Emigrating from Trinidad & Tobago with her family to Brooklyn, New York, she has built her business from the ground up in her humble home in Crown Heights, feeding off her parents' entrepreneurial drive. 

Cheyenne is the Founder & Creative Director of Paints By Chey™, an independent art business devoted to custom paintings, logos, graphic design, and custom painted clothing designs, and Events on Canvas, which is a company that specializes in live painting at events of all sorts. She also had a partnership with the BLICK art materials flagship location in Soho and was also featured on NY1, CBS News, Bold Business TV, and American Graduate Day on PBS. 

Being a NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship) Alumni, she has studied entrepreneurship and the fundamentals of launching a business at a startup incubator at NYU Steinhardt. Cheyenne competed in multiple business plan competitions both regionally and nationally, where the success of her business has earned Cheyenne the honorary title of being NFTE's Global Entrepreneur of the Year. She was also honored at the Ernst & Young Gala for being the Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Cheyenne also received a Power Girl Award for her entrepreneurial achievements from the Power of You Teens Foundation, inspiring young girls in the arts fields. Starting off 2019 with a bang, she was given the honorary title of being Global Tassels Artist of the Year and was awarded at their annual Founders Gala.