Jhonatan Pulido (b. 1988, Granada Meta, Colombia) is a Colombian painter based in London. He completed his BFA at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2014 and received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2019.

Jhonatan's practice, deeply rooted in painting, explores Colombian architecture, the traditions of rural communities, and their relationship to socio-cultural conflict. His work focuses on the trauma of Colombia's Civil War and the reparative role of painting amongst the population. Colour-fields of yellows, bright reds, oranges, and other vibrant colours overlap and interact with each other as text is concealed and buried underneath through a tactile application of form and colour. These works reference the multi-layered, richly coloured residential and commercial walls of buildings in his native Colombia, where memories of graffiti left by guerrilla and paramilitary groups are often hidden beneath layers of paint. Pulido views these painterly acts as an attempt to exorcise, re-appropriate and control intimidating messages that trigger fear or trauma, while also displaying protective and healing properties. He works through a continual application of material that produces bold fields of colour and form that interact and overlap to explore the vibrancy of painting today alongside the evocation of memory and reparation of trauma lodged in the past.

His work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Elephant Magazine, and Artsy Editorial, and has been acquired by major collections, including the Rubell Museum and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (El Espacio 23) in Miami, FL, USA, among others.