Painter. Born in Salcedo, on December 5, 1929 and died on March 7, 1984. Graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1948 where he taught drawing. In 1954 he was awarded a scholarship by Instituto de Cultura Hispanica of Madrid, Spain. He presented several exhibitions in the country and abroad. He participated in several Biennial Exhibitions: Sao Paulo, Paris, Mexico and Madrid, where he was awarded the Nicaragua Prize and a Gold Medal.

In 1958 he won the First Prize in the Biennial of Santo Domingo, with his painting “El Sacrificio del Chivo” (The sacrifice of the Goat). In 1960 he won Second Prize with “Crepúsculo en una Aldea” (Sunset at a Village) and the Fine Arts Grand Prize in 1948. He was selected for the collective exhibition “Maestros del Continente”,
organized by the Medical Association of Puerto Rico. He had signed a contract with The Contemporaries Galleries in New York to show his work in 1961. This exhibit was covered by prestigious New York newspapers, such as The New York Times, American Journal, and The Herald Tribune. His paintings can be found in various private collections in the country an abroad, as well as in the New York Metropolitan Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Miami, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid and the Gallery of Modern Art. His most recent exhibitions were at the Sarduy Gallery in New York, Nader in Santo Domingo,
Signs in New York and Gallery of Modern Art in Santo Domingo. Pichardo is a painter laden with synthesis and original dramatism. His expressive writing on Antillean symbolisms to which he adds elements of the mulatto culture and of Dominican social composition, have psychological power. He combines many varied chromatic and stylistic aspects in a vast pictorial repertoire. Eligio Pichardo is one of the painters with most awareness of the place of national plastic art in the past years. He is the artist who had tried to translate most of his personal
experiences from an accentuated and varied technique.