Website www.yassermusa.com Name Yasser Musa | Role Poet | |
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Occupation Teacher, Visual Artist, Poet, Publisher Books Diary of 100 Objects: 2006-2007, Made in Belize: Thirty-three Contemporary Artists | ||
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Yasser Musa (born 17 July 1970) is a Belizean visual artist, teacher, poet and publisher.
Contents
- The baffu negotiation yasser musa tedxbelmopan
- Be SJC by yasser musa 2017
- Background
- landings
- Exhibitions
- Poetry
- References
Be SJC... by yasser musa 2017
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. It was after he graduated in 1989 that he debuted in the Belizean art world with his poetry book 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.
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.
Poetry
Yasser Musa has published works of poetry: