Biography

Ítalo Almeida, a.k.a cmg_ngm_pod, born in 1996 in São Paulo and has been living in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, since his childhood. Ítalo is a visual artist who works with different media, such as photography, cinema and installations. He uses, as a field of research, places of popular agglomeration to map their location in the world. He was resident in LAB Cultural BDMG in 2020 and won BH Nas Telas 2021, a funding to run his first short-movie “...Lombrado". The movie is about his perspective as a black young artist during the pandemic in 2020, through two characters played by black friends. Ítalo was one of the artists presented at the 30th edi...Read More