Jiménez Deredia was born in Heredia, Costa Rica on October the 4th, 1954. In 1972 he became a Bachelor in sculpture in the Castella Conservatory, San José, Costa Rica. In 1978 he received his diploma from the Accademia delle Belle Arti of Carrara, Italy. In 1980 he studied architecture in the University of Florence, Italy. And nowadays he works and lives between Costa Rica and Italy.

His sculptures are located in: 

• Basilica of San Pedro, Vatican City

• Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA

• Museum of the Americas, Washington, USA

• Latin Medical American Surgical Clinic, Houston, Texas, USA

• GDS Diagnostic Division of GDS Technology, Indianapolis, USA

• Goldman Group, New York, USA

• Latin American Gardens. Bearing of Champerret, Paris, France.

• Christian Dior. Armand de Ponthaud Collection, Paris, France.

• To Saran Group in London, England.

• Murcia, Spain.

• Palazzo della Province, Foggia, Italy, Ministry of International Subjects, Rome; Grand Hotel, Verona; D'Aloisio family in Isemia and Isernia, Italy.

• Group Oak in El Salvador.

• Gardens of the Presidential House, Children Museum of Costa Rica, National Theater Gardens, Central Bank Museums, Costa Rican Art Museum, National Bank of Costa Rica, Bac San José, Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social, Clínica de la Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social,  Banex Bank, Stein Laboratories, Jardínes del Recuerdo, Catedral of Limón, Sculpture Gardens from the Costa Rican Art Museum.