Mito Elias

Mito Elias
Session with Private Z(oo)M - Lx Factory, Lisbon, October 2011
Born	9 August 1965 Praia, Cape Verde
Occupation	poet, artist, plastic artist

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

Mito Elias was born in Praia. He studied at Ar.Co in Lisbon between 1989 and 1991. He works and lives in the diaspora since 1989. He has developed a language that searched the orality of a symbiotic style between water, writing and multimedia, which he designed Mare Calamus (Sea of Straws)

He was the founder of the review Sopinha de Alfabeto (1986). which was done with other poets including Filinto Elísio, Eurico Barros, and Vadinho Velhino.

Later he did an exposition of his paintings in his Mitomorfosis (Mitomorphosis) in the two largest cities of Cape Verde: Praia and Mindelo, one was at the renowned Palácio do Povo.

He was interviewed with RTC in September 2011,Macau Hoje (Macau Today) in February 2012 and A Semana a month later. His works were recently displayed at some expos in 2014 and 2015 Melbourne, Australia along with Dili, the capital of East Timor.

He was awarded the Volcano Medal (Medalha de Vulcão) first class by the president of Cape Verde.