Takt Grant Awardee Rosaana Velasco was born in 1964 in Toluca, Mexico. She studied Fine Arts in Mexico City, Art History in Paris and Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where she graduated as a master student of Daniel Buren in 2006. She lives as a free painter and installation artist in Berlin. She has shown her work in numerous individual and group exhibitions in various European countries, in China and in Mexico.