Peruvian-born, Rosa Vera grew up in Washington, D.C. and in Latin America. She studied and worked in international finance and economics for years before turning to painting. She is an award-winning artist who paints in acrylics, encaustics, watercolor, mixed media and oils. She has completed commission for Kevin Barry Art Advisory for City of Hope Hospital and for Cedar Hill Hospital in Washington.

She currently lives between Bethesda, Maryland and Lima, Peru.  Rosa has exhibited in national shows including the National Arts Club, the National Watercolor Society Show, International Society for Experimental Artists (ISEA), Watercolor USA, The Athenaeum, and The Art League of Alexandria. She has had numerous solo shows in the U.S. and in Peru. She is included in the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program, which places representative work by American artists in embassies around the world. Rosa is a member of Touchstone Gallery.

Rosa has won a number of prizes both locally and throughout the U.S. She won the Presidents' Prize at the ISEA's International Juried Art Exhibit, and First Place in The Artist's Magazine, the 2010 Board of Directors Award at the International Exhibition, Watercolor Art Society-Houston, and the Gold Medal, Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition, Baltimore Watercolor Society. Her work is in private collections in the US and internationally, as well as the permanent collection of the National Institutes of Health.

Her paintings have appeared in books, newspapers and other publications, such as the Washington Post, Hill Rag, New Visionary Magazine, create! Magazine, Élan and books such as Splash, Incite and AcrylicWorks: the Best of Acrylic Painting.