Jonathan Tignor (b. 1997) is a Tucson-based artist originally from Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Colorado College with a BA in Creative Writing and completed a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art at the Burren College of Art in Ireland. Most recently, he earned an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2024. Tignor has shown with OHSH Projects, Chilli Arts, and Twilight Contemporary in London, as well as Bonian Space in Beijing and Pigment Gallery in Barcelona.

Jonathan Tignor views painting as a means of exploring the images upon which a contemporary-yet-mythical sense of American identity is built. He is interested in the gaps between real and imagined - how the real becomes imagined, and vice-versa. In rendering these images, Tignor looks for material resistance between paint and surface in order to introduce both tension and unexpected moments. The resulting visual narratives aim to guide viewers beyond an immediate and self-referential experience, and instead into a slow and critical way of seeing.