Myrna Quiñonez (b. 1987, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a landscape painter working in oil alongside digital tools, based in Bristol, UK, where she maintains a studio at Spike Island, one of Europe’s leading international centres for contemporary art. Trained at the University of Guanajuato, she has built a substantial international exhibition record spanning roughly fifty shows across Mexico, the United States, and the UK.
Her recent work includes the solo exhibition The Horizon Pulled Me Close at BEERS London (2024), alongside group presentations at the Saatchi Gallery, London (2024), Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles (2025), and Iron Gallery, Chicago (2025). In 2021, she was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant from Arts Council England.
Quiñonez constructs landscapes that move fluidly between representation and abstraction, drawing on her dual experience of northwest Mexico and the English countryside. Working from photography, drone footage, and digital sketching before returning to oil, she builds composite, imagined terrains that engage with the tradition of the picturesque — recalling Constable, Turner, and José María Velasco — while questioning who has historically been permitted to depict landscape at scale, and what tools like drones now mean for how we see and surveil the land.
