Jonathan Twingley is a visual artist and writer.

His drawings and paintings have been published by the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, the Johns Hopkins University Gazette, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the New Republic among many others.

He is the author and illustrator of THE BADLANDS SALOON: AN ILLUSTRATED NOVEL (Scribner/Simon & Schuster).

His work has been recognized by the New York Society of Illustrators, the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators (Bronze Medal), American Illustration, Communication Arts Magazine, The Best of News Design, the Society of Publication Designers, Creative Quarterly and PRINT magazine’s New Visual Artists Review. 

Exhibitions of his drawings and paintings have hung in New York City, Florida, North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota.

From 2007 to 2022 he served as Adjunct Associate Professor in the illustration program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In 2022 he joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Beginning in 2018, his self-publishing initiative – WORDS & PICTURES PRESS – has published 10 catalog collections focused primarily on his work in sketchbooks. 2022’s hardcover release, WORDS & PICTURES (VOLUME ONE), tells the story of the author’s Pandemic year (2020) by way of a chronological curation of posts made to social media sites. The most recent publication (also in hardcover), WALL, PAPER (WORDS & PICTURES VOLUME TWO) (2023), collects over a dozen unconventional sketchbooks in their entirety.

Born and raised in Bismarck, North Dakota, Twingley took a Bachelor’s degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1996 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1998.

He lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES/PUBLIC LECTURES

The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)

The School of Visual Arts (New York, NY)

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY)

Parsons School of Design (New York, NY)

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, NY)

Avenues: The World School (New York, NY)

Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ)

Monroe Community College (Rochester, NY)

Savannah College of Art & Design (Savannah, GA)

Magers & Quinn Bookstore (Minneapolis, MN)

Rourke Art Museum & Gallery (Moorhead, MN)

Minnesota State University Moorhead (Moorhead, MN)

North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum (Bismarck, ND)

Minot State University (Minot, ND)

Bismarck State College (Bismarck, ND)

Pensacola State College (Pensacola, FL)

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SELECT EDITORIAL CLIENTS

American Theater

Arizona Highways

The Atlantic

Bicycling Magazine

Boston Magazine

The Boston Globe

CFO Magazine

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Corporate Counsel Magazine

Dallas Morning News

The Deal, LLC

Drinks Magazine

Governing Magazine

Hadassah Magazine

Harper’s Magazine

High Times

HOW Magazine

Jazziz Magazine

The Johns Hopkins University Gazette

The Los Angeles Times

MacLife

Malibu Magazine

Minnesota Monthly

Mother Jones

The Nation

The New Republic

The New York Times

North Dakota State University Magazine

The Pennsylvania Gazette

Penthouse

The Progressive

Rhode Island Monthly

The San Francisco Chronicle

Scribner Books

Simon & Schuster

Stanford Business

Stanford Magazine

The Stranger

TIME OUT Chicago

Tor Books

The Utne Reader

Walker & Company Books

The Wall Street Journal

The Washington Post

Wine Enthusiast

WORLD Magazine

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AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS 

The Society of Illustrators, New York

The Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles (Bronze Medal)

American Illustration

Communication Arts Magazine

The Best of News Design

The Society of Publication Designers

PRINT Magazine (20 Under 30/New Visual Artists Review)

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EDUCATION

Master’s Degree in Fine Art: Illustration As Visual Essay (School of Visual Arts/New York City, 1998)

Bachelor’s Degree: Drawing (University of Minnesota Moorhead, 1996)