Born in Três Pontas and now based in São Paolo, Gustavo Nazareno is a Brazilian artist. He moved to São Paulo on the advice of his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, who had experienced a vision from a minor deity known as an Orixá. Once there, despite having never picked up a paintbrush, he was commissioned by his aunt’s priest to paint the Candomblé deities. Since then, worship has been woven into every step of his process, and his work draws on social, spiritual and cultural stories from South America and around the world, deliberately blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
