Considered a master of concretism, an avant-garde movement that was born in painting in the 1930s. His main postulates in art were the rejection of any relationship with the natural, the objective and the symbolic.

Pedro de Oraá was born in Havana on October 23, 1931 and studied Painting and Sculpture at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1952 he joined the artistic group Los Once, a group created in the middle of the last century. when abstraction acquires connotation in Cuba.

His pieces can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, the Museo Universitario del Chopo (Mexico City), the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College in New York, and the Museum of Finest Cuban Arts, from Vienna (Austria).

Among the recognitions he received throughout his artistic career are the 2015 National Prize for Plastic Arts, the most important award in that specialty in Cuba, the 2011 National Book Design Prize and the Youth Teacher Award, awarded in 2019 by the Hermanos Saíz Association.