Floria Pinto

Floria Pinto González de Herrero (September 18, 1923 – 2012) was a Costa Rican artist known for her paintings, prints, and sculpture. A member of the avant-garde Grupo Taller in the 1960s, she later returned to more classical, figurative works in the 1990s.

Biography Floria Pinto was born in 1923 in San José, Costa Rica.

Beginning in the 1950s, she studied for four years at the University of Costa Rica's School of Fine Arts. She often explored the female figure, and she produced a significant number of intimate self-portraits.

Pinto was a part of the Grupo Taller, a group of avant-garde artists in Costa Rica starting in 1963, led by Manuel de la Cruz González. Her later work, in the 1990s, turned back toward classical styles and away from the expressionism that marked her previous output, thanks in part to the influence of her mentor Alberto Ycaza.

Pinto died in 2012 in San José