Pedro de Oraá was born in Havana, on October 23 , 1931. He completed his first studies at the Superior Primary School attached to the Normal School for Teachers of Havana.

He studied Painting and Sculpture at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts and Civil Construction at the School of Arts and Crafts in Havana.

In 1949, he published for the first time along with other poets in Caibarién, Las Villas, later he traveled to Venezuela in 1957 and there he joined groups of writers and artists.

From 1958, he joined the group of Ten Concrete Painters. It constituted the organization of the scenic activities of the National Theater in 1960, and worked as head of advertising design until 1962 . That same year he began working as a designer at the National Council of Culture. He founded the Pálpite editions in 1961 and is co-founder of the Editorial Belic in 1964 . At the same time, he moved to Bulgaria, where he lived for two years with the aim of learning Bulgarian language and literature.

Among the main personal exhibitions held since 1957, those carried out in the Small Space Gallery, the National Council of Plastic Arts, the Raúl Martínez Gallery, the Cuban Book Institute, the Fayad Jamís Gallery, the Alamar Art and Literature Center stand out. in Havana and the collective ones in the Center of Fine Arts, Caguas, Puerto Rico and in the Great Arc of the Defense, Paris, France.

His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Fine Arts, in Cuba, Chopo University Museum, Federal District, Mexico, Godwin-Ternbach Museum of Queen College, New York , Museum of Finest Cuban Arts, Vienna.