Born in San Fernando, Philippines, in 1976, Fatima Ronquillo emigrated as a child to the United States in 1987 where her family settled in San Antonio, Texas. She began exhibiting her work from the age of 15 and is now widely collected in the United States and internationally. Her work has appeared in numerous art publications including American Arts Quarterly, Southwest Art, and American Art Collector as well as in the fashion magazines Vogue Gioiello, Marie Claire, and A Magazine Curated By Alessandro Michele. Her debut book, Spellbound, is to be published in spring 2019 by the Unicorn Publishing Group. Arcadia, her upcoming solo exhibition at the Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe opens on September 14, 2018. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.