Mayasa Sultan AlSowaidi was born on the island of Muharraq in Bahrain. She completed her higher education at Grenoble University in France, where she earned her doctorate in Business Administration and Emotional Intelligence. Currently, she works as an assistant professor at the Business College of Bahrain University teaching creativity and innovation management and entrepreneurial strategy. Additionally, she is a member of the Bahrain Innovation and Technology Transfer Center (BITTC).

Mathematics has introduced the factor of commitment and poise in the artistic life of Mayasa, and this is the main engine of her artistic experience, which gave her freedom of expression and a base to explore and extract all kinds of creativity inside her. Mayasa did not specialize in art and did not graduate from art academies, but rather gained her knowledge through Intensive courses and continuous experimentation and research in the world of color.

In 2005, she embarked on her journey in art and has since showcased her work in Bahrain and other countries such as the United States of America, the United Kingdom, India, Italy, and several Arab and Gulf capitals. In 2019, she held her solo exhibition on The Art of Tea in Paris, where she launched her book Legend of Tea. She has received numerous awards for her conceptual art, with the most notable being the first (Public Vote Prize) from Sovereign Middle East and North Africa in 2016 for a painting made of tea bags (The Tea Whispers), which was sold at Christie's auction in Dubai. Mayasa won the Al Dana award at Bahrain's Annual Fine Arts Exhibition 49th edition and received multiple other awards.