Hannibal was born and raised in Reno, Nevada to a mother who immigrated from Beirut, Lebanon and a father from Pueblo, Colorado. As the first generation to go to college it was apparent for her to go into art from a young age. She would free hand anything she could see. It wasn't until she made it to high school that she found her love for sculpting continuing into college and making that her emphasis. She was exposed to the history of sculptures and was able to find her style in anatomical realism sculpting with areas of color and whimsy. She has been studying at Truckee meadows Community College for the last seven years and has been able to expand into photography, painting, and life drawing. She is currently a prosthetic creator at the Dark Corner Collective creating semi-professional grade prosthetics that are featured in a month-long attraction opened to the public. She expects to graduate spring of 2025 and expand her career to the Vancouver film school.

With her family background in art it was easy for her to have support in this career choice. Her Aunt Zeina Cook and uncle Robert Cook were traveling artist’s that opened her eyes to mediums from different countries and sparked her interest in art history. While learning in college about early art she was able to look into her own heritage stemming from Phoenician and Native American-Mexican artists. A deep look into artists such as Frida Kahlo and Hiram of Tyre gave her curiosity to not just focus on painting and drawing. In her early works in ceramics, she chooses to convey her life in a variety of shapes. Works such as ‘Childhood’(2019) is paying homage to the love of horror movies her father introduced her to. 

With an ever expanding imagination, Hannibal has used her love for the gory and beauty of art to bring the two together. The mix of realism and imagination are meant to trigger the most childlike wonder even in the most stubborn of people.