Fernando Hamilton Barbosa Elias, also known as Mito or Mito Elias is a Cape Verdean artist, visual artist, poet and performer.

Fernando Hamilton Barbosa Elias[citation needed] was born in Praia, on the island of Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands.

[1] He studied art in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1989 until 1992, and did not return to Cape Verde.

[1] He moved to Australia in 2013, and worked as a visual arts tutor at Footscray Community Arts in Melbourne.

He also established Fandata Studio in Sunshine, in the western suburbs of Melbourne.