Dinorah Bolandi

Dinora(h) Bolandi Jimenez (1923 – 2004) was a Costa Rican artist. She studied in the United States, taught at the University of Costa Rica and created hundreds of paintings. She won the leading national prize for art in 1990.

Life Bolandi was born in 1923 in San José. Her father, Walter Bolandi, was a leading photographer and cinematographer and her mother, Marina Jiménez, was a pianist. She had drawing lessons from Fausto Pacheco. Her mother became her companion after she returned from fifteen years studying in Colorado and in New York with Ivan Olinsky and Robert Brackman.

Dinora eventually became a near recluse in Escazú, selling little, and using her mother, her dog, and the occasional stranger as models.