Biography
(2025)
Osaira Muyale.
“I am an immigrant who talks about the country she moved to,
and an emigrant who dreams of the country she left. In between,
I am an eye, a bird, a horse, an ear, a soul, a spirit, water, a human being.”
I was born on the 7th of January, 1964 on the island of Aruba, in the centrum of Oranjestad, Nassaustraat (now Caya Betico Croes). As the daughter, I was raised in a Catholic family with three brothers. My brothers became entrepreneurs, and myself a contemporary visual artist. My mother Euphemia Maria Cornelia van Heusden (1940) an entrepreneur and a second World War survivor. Born in Amsterdam and raised in Heemstede, Netherland. My father, Greto Simplicio (Tito) Muyale (1940-1986) met my mother when he studied architecture at the HTS in Den Bosch (1956-1960). After their marriage in Holland, they settled in Aruba, his birth island where he died 26 years later as a well-known architect and entrepreneur. My father’s ancestors were Christian refugees migrants in exile from Serhel, Lebanon. They migrated to Venezuela Estado Falcon, South America in 1898, later to Curacao and established in Aruba. We grew up like migratory birds, working hard, supporting each other with love to survive. Living a process of identity, peace and freedom.
(2023-2027) Project ‘Birds of Paradise’, A new Language. Conversation on artworks representing
new freedom. Anima Mundi or world soul. The interconnection which relates to the world in
much the same way as the soul is connected to the human being.
Healing the soul and spirit, a research on ancestors, saints, sacred spaces, multiverse, parallel
lines and quantum physics. Funded by Mondriaan Fund, a Dutch public fund for visual art and cultural heritage.
(Grand, Artist Basis/Kunstenaar Basis 2023-2027).
(2024-2020) Ongoing project. A process delving the psychology of time and space. Surrounding patterns, memory triggers, seeing. Visualizing an evolutionary language. Wispers of freedom, believing in beautiful dreams.
(2021-2022). Zeitgeist. New Silence. Orientation on human ecology and frequency. The history of water guides the soul’s passage to the milky way. Human body is 70 percent of water and water is able to memorize and transport information. Words as expression on soul’s alignment. The individual and society make up an enormous ocean. By adding individual drops into the ocean, we participate in the formation of civilization. The space of grief, generates a void of words.
(2020) Freeflow.5LiQUID narratives. Research and new work during the pandemic, installed at studio Osaira Muyale. The general theme on work ‘seeing identity’, deconstructing and reconstructing themes on space and time. Rewriting, healing historical, generational, national, international wounds and traumas. In between parallel lines a new historical world vieuw alignment with ancestors, saints, reality eyes, passionate ears.
(2019) ‘Not Alone’, ‘a new silence’. A researh on human ecology, ‘The Allegory of the Cave’, Greek philosopher Plato’s cave (514a-520a). To equate the effect of education on ecology verses interpersonal archetype frequencies.
(2025-1995)
Text on art works by National and International art curators and art historians.
For more information you can write to osairamuyale@yahoo.com
(2015-2025)
Art in public space, Paardenbaai – Blue Horses
Oranjestad Aruba.
Text by Renwick Heronimo, art Curator.
Publication and project powered by ATA,TPEF,
Mondriaan Funds,Unoca, PBCFCG, GenAir, FE.
(2015-2025)
Exposition ‘Paradise Park’
Studio Osaira Muyale, Oranjestad, Aruba.
Text by Renwick Heronimo, art Curator.
Book powered by Unoca, PBCFCG, GenAir, FE.
(2018)
Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Zulia, Venezuela.
Sculpture “Mujer Holandesa” (Dutch Woman).
Group exposition ‘Mare Nostrum’, a sea of dreams.
Text by Dr. Juan Bracho, curator and art historian.
(2011-2012)
Artwork, ‘I am not white, not black but Blue’
First Biennial of Aruba. ARTNEXUS 104
March –May 2017 “Useless Islands” to the ‘Happy islands’
Text by Dr. Jose Manuel Noceda Fernandez, art historian.
Aruba in Art Today.
(2010)
Exposition, ‘Take me home cause I don’t remember’
First International Triennial of Caribbean.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo.
Text ‘Spirituality and Context’,
by Dr. Professor Jose Manuel Noceda Fernandez, art historian.
(1997)
Exposition, ‘El Silencio’
Centro Wifredo Lam. 6th Biennial de la Habana,Cuba.
Text by Gijs Stork, M.A., art historian.
Powered by Institute of Culture, Aruba
(1995)
Exposition ‘The Mystery of the soul’
Eterno Studio gallery, Oranjestad Aruba.
Text ‘Autobiography, memory and lack of communication’
by Dr. José Manuel Noceda Fernandez, art historian.
Book powered by Artimo, Netherland.
(1999)
Arte-Beeldende kunst van de Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba.
/Dutch Caribbean Art/ Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen.
Tent Centrum Beeldende Kunst.
Text by Dr.Adi Martis, Curator and art historian.
Jennifer Smit, independent art curator.