[1] Menassé was born in New York, but has lived in Mexico since she was two years old and considers herself Mexican.
[2] As of 2015[update], she lived and worked at her Mexico City apartment overlooking Parque México.
[2][3] She has participated in more than 250 collective exhibitions in various parts of Mexico as well as in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and other countries.
She is interested in stating something from herself, something personal either real or imagined, abstract or figurative, with traditional or nontraditional materials.
[3] She does not like the publicity and other aspects of the art work, preferring to be quiet and along, creating colors and images.