His maternal uncle Eric Beraza, a Spanish-born military boot manufacturer, was already living in the United States and was responsible for Pinedo's upbringing in the US.
As a teenager Pinedo attended Miami Jackson Senior High School until the tenth grade when he and his uncle relocated to San Jose California to pursue better opportunities.
In 1972 Pinedo returned to Miami and the following year he met Josefina Camacho, recently divorced from famed Cuban artist Juan González.
[3] Pinedo and Camacho were active in Permuy's popular Friday Gallery Nights (known colloquially in the Cuban community as "los viernes") and its affiliated evening cultural salon gatherings.
Many of these were influential artists who helped shape that early landscape, such as other members of the Grupo GALA and the trio of Lourdes Gomez Franca, Dionisio "Denis" Perkins, and Miguel "Mickey" Jorge.
The styles range from figurative to total abstraction and include works that feature Cubism, Expressionism, Modernism, Realism and other 20th Century and Contemporary art genres and movements.
[6] Another key work from the Pinedo Collection is Juan Gonzalez's Splendor in the Grass (1970), which has been featured in the Miami Metropolitan Museum & Art Center (Kendall Branch) and Christie's New York.
In the ensuing decades, their art collection would grow to include some of the most prominent Cuban painters of the 20th and 21st century, including: Wifredo Lam, Juan González, Baruj Salinas, Rafael Soriano, Enrique Riveron, Lourdes Gomez Franca, Dionisio Perkins, Miguel Jorge, Agustín Fernandez, Cundo Bermudez, Humberto Calzada, Emilio Hector Rodriguez, Carlos Macias (1951–1994), Paul Sierra, and Rolando Lopez Dirube.
[15][13][23][6][24][25] In addition painters, the Pinedos also collected works of sculptural art by Cuban sculptors: Agustín Cárdenas, Enrique Gay García, and Rafael Consuegra[23] and photography from Miguel Fleitas.
These include: Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Roxana McAllister, Rufino Tamayo, Raul Anguiano, Roberto Matta, Rafael Ferrer, and Pérez Celis.
[6][28] Works from the Pinedo Collection have also been featured in artist-specific books, including BARUJ SALINAS (1979),[18] Dirube (1979),[24] Dreamscapes: The Art of Juan González (1994),[22] and Rafael Soriano and the Poetics of Light (1998).