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.