"These jewel-like paintings intuitively fuse different aesthetic traditions, folk art and old master, with natural grace and an uncanny quality that may be a species of magic." —American Arts Quarterly
Publications
In Spring 2019, Fatima Ronquillo released her debut book Spellbound, published by Unicorn Publishing Group. London, United Kingdom. It was an official selection at the 2019 24th Annual Texas Book Festival in Austin.
In 2015, Fatima was selected as the official poster artist for the Texas Book Festival. The 20th Anniversary poster featured her painting “The Naturalist”. During the festival she presented a talk on her poster and art at The Contemporary Austin, Jones Center.
“…the poster art by Fatima Ronquillo, an elegant that looks as if it might be several centuries old, which has the feel of both the Old World and the New World, of past and present, of nature and civilization … it tells a story of the kind we love to discover in books.” ~ Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle
Book Covers
Clizia. Niccolò Machiavelli. 2025. Mondadori. Print (cover, front and end pages)
Misericordia., Maria Sotomayor. 2020. Letraversal Poesia. Print
Le muet de l’Anse-aux-Bernaches, Alexandre Naple. 2016. Marchand de feuilles. Print.
A Máquina de Fazer Espanhóis, Valter Hugo Mãe. 2014 Edition. Alfaguara. Print.
O Apocalipse Dos Trabalhadores, Valter Hugo Mãe. 2014 Edition. Alfaguara. Print.
O Nosso Reino, Valter Hugo Mãe. 2014 Edition. Alfaguara. Print.
O Remorso de Baltazar Serapião, Valter Hugo Mãe. 2014 Edition. Alfaguara. Print
Contributions
Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection. Edited by Elle Shushan. 2021. GILES. Print
pp. 108-109 Two of Ronquillo’s paintings appear as representations of the lover’s eye in contemporary art in the chapter essay “Love Never Dies” by Graham C. Boettcher, PhD, the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
It is also worth noting that Ronquillo’s artistic world―which includes lover’s eyes whose subjects are black―is more diverse than the history of almost exclusively white eye miniature sitters from which it stems. Although Ronquillo’s work evokes the lover’s eye tradition, her miniatures are emblems rather than true portraits.~ Dr. Graham C. Boettcher
~ excerpt from Lover’s Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
Landfall Press Five Decades. Thomas Cvikota. 2020. Landfall Press. Print.
p.540 Ronquillo’s “The First Jasmines” was the last official print made by Landfall Press
detail
Farah Khan: A Bejeweled Life. 2018. Rizzoli. Print.
pp. 128, 172
“Devotion” A Magazine Curated by [GUCCI Creative] Director Alessandro Michele #16. Belgium. 2016. Print
“Hand with Snake and Weeping Eye” and “The Snake Charmer”
“The Sentinels” and “The Princeling and The General”
“The Songbird” and “Hand with Hummingbirds”
Editions Barbe á Pop. Grand Salon de la Micro-Edition #4, Lyon, France. 2013. Print.
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