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Yasser Musa (born 17 July 1970) is a Belizean visual artist, teacher, poet and publisher.


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,
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, 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.


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. ''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. On September 6, 2013, along with Joan Duran and Kency Cornejo, Musa launched ''the CONTAINER Collection 001''. The last ''landings'' presentation was in 2010.


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, 2011 *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, 2009 *landings 9, Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Belize, 2008 *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., 2007 *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, 2006 *landings 1, Conkal Arte Contemporáneo, Conkal, Yucatán, México, 2004 (3)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
*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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Musa, Yasser 1970 births Belizean artists Belizean poets Children of prime ministers Living people People from Belize City Belizean people of Palestinian descent 21st-century Belizean writers