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Mito Elias
Session with Private Z(oo)M - Lx Factory, Lisbon, October 2011
Session with Private Z(oo)M - Lx Factory, Lisbon, October 2011
BornFernando Hamilton Barbosa Elias
9 August 1965
Praia, Cape Verde
OccupationPoet, artist, visual artist

Fernando Hamilton Barbosa Elias, also known as Mito or Mito Elias (born 9 August 1965) is a Cape Verdean artist, visual artist, poet and performer.

Biography

Mito Elias was born in Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde. He studied art at Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual Arco (Ar.Co) in Lisbon, Portugal, between 1989 and 1992. He has lived and worked in the diaspora since 1989, developing an original imagery language consisting of the search for Creole oral traditions and tales, a symbiotic style between wash, writing and multimedia, and has thus been named Mare Calamus. Since 1983, he has regularly presented his exhibits, work drawn, painted, written or video-graphed, travelling to all corners of the world. He is represented in exhibitions all over the world, including the World Bank (USA), BNU (Macao, China), Afro Brasil Museum (São Paulo, Brazil), Regional Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, Presidency of the Cape Verde Republic, Embassy of Cape Verde in Lisbon and Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria, Australia. He has lived in Melbourne, Australia, since 2013. He runs Fandata Studio, together with his wife, who is also a visual artist. He works as a visual arts tutor and community facilitator in many projects around Melbourne.

Exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

ECOS À BOLINA (Na Rota De Calamus) - CINUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
AFRICA NOW! - Emerging Talents From a Continent on The Move - World Bank, Washington DC, USA

Selected solo exhibitions

Duet - Galeria Gymnasium, Lisbon, Portugal
Águalusa & Terracota - Recreios da Amadora, Portugal
Lantuna Na Mei Di Mar - EXPO'98 - Lisbon, Portugal
Serenata Em Bilingue - Teatro Baltazar Dias, Funchal, Madeira
Mare Calamus - Jorge Vieira Museum, Beja, Portugal
Promessa Di Marlargo - Mabooki Bookshop, Lisbon, Portugal
Li-Sim-Sim - Kerry Center, Beijing, China
Fisherman's Wharf - Macao, China
FishBonEye - S.Vicente City Hall, Mindelo, Cape Verde
POEMix (Collaboration with Binga de Castro) – IILP (International Institute of Portuguese Language), Praia, Cape Verde
Na Fai Minotu - UNICV (University of Cape Verde), Praia, Cape Verde
De Pareidolia (Collaboration with Ana Rita Pires) - PCIL, Praia, Cape Verde
10x9.11 - (with Binga de Castro) – The Music House, Praia, Cape Verde
Pé Na Boti - Vídeo_Phonics Witnesses – CV Cultural House, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Paredis & Numbrason (collaboration with Ana Rita Pires) - CAC Tejo, V.V.Rodão, Portugal
Private Z(oo)M - Tempo de Bichos, Afro-Brazil Museum, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[RE]alphabetika @ Cascais - Parque Palmela, Cascais, Portugal
Private Z(oo)M - Macau Literary Festival, Polytechnic Institute of Macao, Macao, China
[Ex]Isle (Painted Tales) as part of the Latin Festival - Ventana Fiesta, Frankston Arts Centre, Australia
[RE]alphabetika @Díli – Fundação Oriente, Díli, East Timor
OBI TA FLA – CCCV – Lisbon – Portugal
ORENDA [dueto com Bento Oliveira] – CCCV – Lisbon – Portugal

Awards

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