Marcos Pinedo
cuban-American art collector
Marcos F. Pinedo is a Cuban–American art patron, collector, and art dealer who was an active figure in contributing to the establishment of the Cuban and Latin American art market in South Florida. He and his wife, Josefina Camacho Pinedo, own the Pinedo fine art collection of prominent Latin American and European art.
Background and early life
Marcos Fernando Pinedo was born on July 22, 1948, in Havana, Cuba and subsequently raised in the region of Matanzas. His cultural background through both his mother and father's families was Spanish. As such, all his grandparents were from Spain. His mother's family was Basque from the region of Bilbao with a background in farming while his father's family originated in the Canary Islands and worked in electrical and motor industries that had become increasingly profitable in the region during wake of the Industrial Revolution. Both lineages of his family migrated to Cuba as a result of the widespread political unrest of Spanish Civil War. Similarly, Pinedo's own life was greatly impacted by the Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro’s subsequent rise to power. In the lead-up to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, his family arranged for him to be brought to the United States.
Move to the United States
Pinedo participated in the Cuban exodus and emigrated to Miami on April 6, 1961, at the age of 12 as part of Operation Peter Pan, after which he became part of the Cuban diaspora residing in the United States.
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