Background
The son of former Belizean Prime Minister Said Musa, Yasser Musa was born in Belize City.
The son of former Belizean Prime Minister Said Musa, Yasser Musa was born in Belize City.
He was educated in Belize City at Saint John"s College Junior College. lieutenant 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. lieutenant 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. 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. was an 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 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 presentation was in 2010.
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, United States, 2012 el Fleco+Vixens, Bitches and Whores, Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Belize, 2011 10, mi-kunuku-farm, Benque Viejo del Carmen, Belize, 2009 YM20 yrs, Image Factory, Belize City, Belize, 2009 9, Image Factory Art Foundation, Belize City, Belize, 2008 8, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008 7, Casa de las Americas/Galería Hayddée Santamaría, Louisiana Habana, Cuba, 2007 6, Casa de las Americas/Galería Latinoamericana, Louisiana Habana, Cuba, 2007 5, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington District of Columbia, United States.A,2007 4, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica,2007 3, Centro León, Santiago de los Caballeros, la República Dominicana, 2006 2, Centro de Arte Visuales, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 2006 1, Conkal Arte Contemporáneo, Conkal, Yucatán, México, 2004 (3) North Front Street Project, 9th Havana Biennial, Louisiana 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.