Jhonatan Pulido Colombian, b. 1988

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 references 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. 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.

Solo exhibitions include Reparación, Alma Pearl, London (2025); Un respiro y dos parpadeos, or one breath and two blinks, Alma Pearl, London (2023); and Gûejar, Pictorial reflections about a stone, 12:00 Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia. Group exhibitions include Between The Acts, Alma Pearl, London (2026); Fast Friends, Oceans Apart, Salford, UK (2023); Positions, part one, Alma Pearl, London, UK (2023); Modus Picturae, Casa AmaCord, London (2022); and the Royal College of Art Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London (2019). His work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Elephant Magazine, and Artsy Editorial, and has been acquired by major collections, including the Jorge M. Pérez Collection / El Espacio 23 and the Rubell Museum (both Miami, FL), among others.