About the artist
Misael Vaarmi is a visionary artist whose work walks between emotion, memory, and the surreal. His paintings and pieces make strong, confident statements that do not hold back. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and now based in Tiohtiá:ke or Montreal, Canada, he carries within him a dense mix of cultural memory, migration, and introspection. His journey as an artist began not in classrooms but in sound.
For 10 years, Misael played drum in a military marching band in Mexico. That experience trained his body to live inside rhythm. Precision, repetition, timing, and impact became second nature. Later, cumbia, rock, ska, and electronic music layered on top of that discipline. When he discovered raves and techno, it felt like that same discipline finally had the freedom to break its own rules. The beat came before the brush, and that pulse still lives in his work.
Misael was raised in one of the most religious, conservative, and homophobic states in Mexico, a place also known for being dangerous for women. Growing up gay in that environment meant learning to survive between silence and danger. The people who protected him were women. They defended him, believed in him, and helped him survive in a culture marked by machismo. That experience left a mark on his work and on his ethics.
Now that he lives in a more open minded city, he has made a personal law for himself: to be genuine, honest, and visible about who he is. He knows he cannot change the whole world, but he can make it a little less heavy for anyone going through something similar. With his life and his art, he adds his grain of sand toward a world where peace is built through peaceful actions and where respect is what is called normal.
He has lived across three countries Mexico, the United States, and now Canada. Years spent in the United States without legal status taught him to carry both beauty and fear at the same time. That constant uncertainty and silence eventually found a language through color, form, and light. Over time, these experiences fused into a visual language rooted in personal reverie.
Through hand painted pieces, fluorescent pigments, symbolic compositions, and digital art, Misael creates work that feels alive, charged with emotion, intention, and ancestral weight. His paintings often glow in the dark, revealing another dimension under blacklight. His art appears on walls, clothes, vinyl covers, and digital platforms, always evolving but never detached from the core of who he is.
He is the founder of Revaarmismo, an artistic movement that treats chaos as a hidden form of order.
Revaarmism as it translates to English uses altered symbols, fluorescent pigments, and controlled instability to reveal what people carry in their bodies inherited beliefs, fears, memories, and desires. It is not decoration. It is a method, rooted in psychology and influenced by chaos theory, that interrupts automatic perception and makes the viewer feel something before they can explain it. The movement is not limited to canvas. It can live on clothing, objects, sound, moving image, and any medium that can hold intention.
In Revaarmism, the glow in the dark acts as a protective layer. It works like a candle lit with intention. The pigment is not sold as magic. It simply holds a memory. When the lights go off and the work begins to glow, the brain remembers what was placed there courage, grief, desire, the decision to keep going. Each piece becomes a quiet anchor in the dark, an ecological candle that does not burn out, returning the same intention to the viewer again and again without needing fire, fuel, or a screen.
Visually, his work lives in the space between psychedelic and refined. He often pushes his images toward the strange and intense, then shapes them back into something precise and elegant. Eyes, bodies, planets, and abstract forms appear in states of tension and transformation. The colors can be loud, fluorescent, and almost uncomfortable, yet the final result remains controlled and clean. His pieces are meant to feel strong, sometimes unsettling, but always raw, precise, and elegant.
Misael’s path is not linear. It is circular, chaotic, and luminous. From painting shirts by hand to building immersive gallery experiences, his work invites people to feel rather than to decode. Eyes return as guardians. Celestial bodies move like witnesses. Hidden languages and symbols open a space that lives just beyond logic, where emotion and memory are allowed to speak first.
His art is not meant to be understood at a glance. It works like a pulse, like a fragment of a dream, like the echo of something once known that refuses to stay quiet. Strong, sometimes uncomfortable, yet raw, precise, and elegant, each piece is a small protective field of light inside the chaos.
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