Yasser Musa (born 17 July 1970) is a Belizean visual artist, teacher, poet and publisher.Great Belize Television News 5, "Yasser Musa and twenty years of art", Great Belize Productions, July 16, 2009, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/1100 ,
Background
The son of former Belizean Prime Minister Said Musa, Yasser Musa was born in Belize City. He was educated in Belize City at St. John's College Junior College. After he graduated in 1989, he debuted with a collection called poems. In 1992, along with Belizean musician and now owner of Belize's most successful record company Stonetree Records, Ivan Duran, Musa presented Minus 8. It featured multimedia pieces and was the first of its kind in Belize. He went on to study at a university in New Orleans. There in 1995 he presented his first solo visual art exhibit, Coming Out, with 50 paintings.
In 1995, Yasser Musa developed the Image Factory Art Foundation. The Art Foundation features a gallery which hosts exhibits from local, regional and international artists. The Factory, as most people call it, is located on 91 North Front Street in Belize City, and has functioned as a space for workshops, classes, residencies and exhibits.Yasser Musa, artist info, http://www.yassermusa.com/artist-info.html . Stonetree Records, Ten Years of Stonetree, http://www.stonetreerecords.com/office/ten_years_of_stonetree.php . 7 News Belize, Image Factory @ 10, September 2, 2005, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=7032&frmsrch=1
landings
The Minus series would later go counting down to a major international exhibit ZERO, new Belizean art which opened in the Olimpo in Mérida Yucatán, to a large crowd and would eventually garner 17,000 visitors.<Great Belize Television, News 5, Belizean Artists Exhibit in Mérida, March 14, 2000, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/21341 landings was a series of exhibits, ten in all, which featured artists from the Caribbean and Central America. The exhibits mostly featured installation and photography. Each exhibit was launched with a forum for artists and audience to discuss the current situation of contemporary art in the region. Yasser Musa along with landings curator Joan Duran, editors Tristan Donald and Marisol Rodriguez at the close of the last exhibit began the vigorous work of the CONTAINER Collection, the first of a series of 10 manifested as a 400-page book.7 News Belize, Image Factory Launches Art Book, September 6, 2013, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=26495Great Belize Television 5 News, Landings Arrives on the Belizean Artistic Landscape, 6 September 2013, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/90123 On September 6, 2013, along with Joan Duran and Kency Cornejo, Musa launched the CONTAINER Collection 001. The last landings presentation was in 2010.News 5, "Landings Arrives on the Belizean Artistic Landscape", Great Belize Television News 5, September 6, 2013, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/90123 7 News Belize, "Image Factory Launches Art Book", September 6, 2013, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=26495&frmsrch=1Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,"Landings Big Book by Johnathan Cu pt.1", August 30, 2013, http://www.macay.org/radio/podcast/150/landings-big-book-y-jonathan-cu-pt-1Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, "Landings Big Book by Johnathan Cu pt. 2", August 30, 2013, http://www.macay.org/radio/podcast/149/landings-big-book-y-jonathan-cu-pt-2El Punt Avui,"Un exèrcit d'artistes", October 10, 2010, http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/5-cultura/19-cultura/313352-un-exercit-dartistes.html?cca=1El Punt Avui, "Els huracans tancats en un sol llibre" November 1, 2013, http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/5-cultura/19-cultura/689486-els-huracans-tancats-en-un-sol-llibre.html?cca=1
Exhibitions
Musa has participated in several exhibitions both individually and collectively. He has exhibited in Belize, Cuba, México, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Portugal, Spain, the Dominican Republic and the United States. Belize @ 31 in Iowa, Bing Davis Memorial Gallery, Iowa, US, 2012 el Fleco+Vixens, Bitches and Whores, Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Belize, 20117 News Belize,"Facebook Vs. Folklore", March 3, 2011, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=19116&frmsrch=1 landings 10, mi-kunuku-farm, Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize, 2009News 5, "Landings 10, contemporary art, leaves the stratosphere", Great Belize Productions, March 24, 2010, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/30047 , YM@20 yrs, Image Factory, Belize City, Belize, 20097 News Belize "Yasser Musa at 20", July 16, 2009, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=14549&frmsrch=1Yasser Musa, Artist biohttp://www.yassermusa.com/artist-bio.html, landings 9, Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Belize, 20087 News Belize, "Landings 9 Landed", August 29, 2008, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=12071&frmsrch=1 landings 8, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008 landings 7, Casa de las Americas/Galería Hayddée Santamaría, La Habana, Cuba, 2007 landings 6, Casa de las Americas/Galería Latinoamericana, La Habana, Cuba, 2007 landings 5, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 2007News 5,"Art exhibition at O.A.S features Central Americans", Great Belize Productions, July 23, 2007, http://edition.channel5belize.com/archives/6694 7 News Belize,"Landings 5 Opens in Washington", July 23, 2007, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=5287&frmsrch=1 landings 4, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, 2007 landings 3, Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros, la República Dominicana, 2006 landings 2, Centro de Arte Visuales, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 20067 News Belize, "Edgy Belizean Contemporary Art in Mérida", January 31, 2006, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=5200&frmsrch=1 landings 1, Conkal Arte Contemporáneo, Conkal, Yucatán, México, 2004 (3)Duran, Joan. List of Exhibitions, landings 10, five-o-one art projects, http://www.landingsproject.com/,7 News Belize, "Belizean Art in Mérida" May 10, 2004, http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=4648&frmsrch=1 North Front Street Project, 9th Havana Biennial, La Habana, Cuba, 2006 Zero, New Belizean Art, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 2000 Minus 5, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 1995 Coming Out, Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Belize, 1995 Minus 8, Bliss Institute, Belize City, Belize, August, 1992
Poetry
Yasser Musa has published works of poetry: How to Receive a Gift, 2011 Limited Anxiety, 2010 Loose Electricity, 2009 The Miami Poem, 2000 The Belize City Poem, 1996 Poems, 1989
References
External links
http://www.yassermusa.com/artist-info.html http://www.yassermusa.com/writing.html http://www.postlandings.com http://www.imagefactorybelize.com