Rosa Borrás is from Mexico City, where she was born in 1963. She studied graphic design at the Escuela de Diseño del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (EDINBA, or School of Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, 1981-86) and visual arts at Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, 1989-94). She graduated in cultural administration from Universidad Iberoamericana (Ibero-American University, Puebla, 2008). She is a member of the Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas (MUMA, Mexican Women Artists’ Museum). She has held 23 solo exhibitions and participated in 49 group exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad. She has been the creator and promoter of independent and self-financed cultural projects such as Puebla-Cholula Open Studios and Embroidering for Peace Puebla (Bordando por la paz Puebla) since 2012.
