Curriculum
Artistic education:
1993-1998
Graduate Degree in Art
Major in Painting
School of Plastic Arts, San Juan,
Puerto Rico
1998
Summer Painting Workshop
Miami, Florida
1997
R&F Encaustic Workshop
Kingston, New York
1986-1991
Art Students League
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1975-1980
Art Students League
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Individual exhibitions (selected):
2005
Picó en tráfico
Petrus Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
Art At Déco
Rincón, Puerto Rico
2003
Una pasión en dos tiempos
Art Students League
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2001
Mobili Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998
Mobili Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
1994
Art Student League Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Group exhibitions (selected):
2005
Colectiva Blanco y Negro
Petrus Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2005
Imagen de una cultura
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
SVA Open Studio
Chelsea, N.Y.C.
2004
Mujeres artistas
Petrus Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
Siete por tres
Petrus Gallery
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003
Meet the artists
Pavlova M. Gallery
Miami, Fla.
2003
La Liga: portal de las artes
Museo de San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2003
Muestra Nacional de Artes Plásticas
Instituto de Cultura
Sala Arsenal de La Puntilla
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
Recreaciones y Recurrencias en el Arte
La Pintadera Gallery, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
1997
Certámen Anual del Ateneo Puertorriqueño
Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan
1997
Certámen Fundación Alfonso Arana
Museo de Arte e Historia de San Juan
1996
Premios ’96
Citibank, Cupey, Puerto Rico
1993
Artistas Puertorriqueñas
La Fortaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992
Bienal Museo Casa Roig
Humacao, Puerto Rico
Awards & Achievements:
2005
Colección Seguros Múltiples
2005
Premio El Nuevo Día
Mujer destacada 2005
1997
Beca Arnaldo Roche
1997
Mención de honor
Certámen Fundación Alfonso Arana
Museo Arte e Historia de P.R.
Liga de Arte de San Juan
1997
Medalla de Pintura
Escuela Artes Plásticas
Instituto de Cultura de P.R.
1996
Mención de honor
Exposición Anual
Escuela Artes Plásticas
1988-2005
Miembro Junta de Directores
Liga de Arte de San Juan
Frances Picó was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her interest for the arts and her creative talent have always being present in all the facets of her life, but it is in the decade of the nineties that she devotes to her artistic work and begins to create an artwork of importance. Her studies of drawing and painting at the Art Students League with Professors Jorge Rechany, Jimmy Shine, RamiroPazmiño, Mercedes Quiñones, Cristina Emanuel and Betsy Padin were transcendental in her artistic formation.
Her desire to acquire formal studies lead her to the School of Plastic Arts and in 1998 she obtains a degree in art with a major in painting. There she studies with Professors Julio Suárez, Rafael Rivera Rosa, Carlos Marcial, Zilia Sanchez, Luis Felipe López and Ernesto Pujol. among others.
In 1997 she experiments with the encaustic medium and attends the R&F Encaustic Workshop in Kingston, New York, and in the Summer of 1998 she moves to the city of Miami and participates in an artists’ workshop and produces her works Gianni and Pillow Book. In 2003, inspired by a visit to Mediterranean countries, she presented the exhibition “Una pasión en dos tiempos” at the Art Students League.
During the Summer of 2004 she worked and exhibited in the city of New York and produced her dyptics “…en tránsito” and Meet me at the river. Influenced by this period in the city of New York, she presented a solo show, Picó in transit, in San Juan, P.R. at Petrus Gallery in March, 2005.
In the last fifteen years she has participated in several selected group exhibitions, has showed individually in six occasions, and has been recipient of several awards and distinctions. At the present, she is very active working in her art proposals at her studio/workshop located in the historic zone of Old San Juan and contributes to the development of the visual arts in Puerto Rico from her position as Board Member of the Art Students League of San Juan.