Jo McGonigal is an artist and Fine Art lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. McGonigal’s Ph.D. is in painting as a post-medium practice and its intersection with architecture. McGonigal has gallery representation with Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, co-curator of Real Painting: Castlefield Gallery; Eccentric Geometric: Arthouse1 and has participated in numerous exhibitions including: Jo McGonigal X Frank Bowling, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, 2024; Blanco, Patricia Fleming Projects Glasgow, 2024; Pale Ground, Studio2, 2023; Contemporary British Painting 2019; Hard Painting, Phoenix Gallery Brighton 2020; Come and Go. Halt Extreme Left, Winchester Art Gallery, 2019. McGonigal is also part of the London-based art collective: Outside Architecture.