 His received a secondary education in the city's Instituto Nacional Central para Varones.In the 1920s, Cardoza moved to Paris, France where he became friends with André Breton.Influenced by the avant-garde members of the surrealist movement, his first work titled ""Luna Park"" was published in 1923 and dedicated to the Guatemalan writer Enrique Gómez Carrillo (1873–1927).