Jonathan Field was born in Manchester, England in 1963, and was educated at Lancaster University, receiving his doctorate in 1998. Since 1999 he has exhibited predominantly in the United States. His more recent work was on show at the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, and the Caelum Gallery, New York City in 2000, and was included the following year in Exposed: Contemporary Photography at Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY. In 2002 he exhibited in Emerging Artists, BackStreet Galleries, Los Angeles, (2nd Prize Winner), Face Time at the Atlanta Contemporary Museum and Image/AfterImage at Grey McGear Modern. He was selected for the British Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2003 which toured London, Manchester and Glasgow. In 2004 his meditation on the Iraq invasion (maxwell’s demon [new york times] was exhibited in Motion Stills at the Red Gallery, Savannah, and Conflict, held at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, England. More recently he has worked closely with literary themes, culminating in a one-person show (W.A.S.T.E.) held at Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah in May 2005. In 2006 his short films Play and How to Explain Art were exhibited at Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, as well as being broadcast as part of Indie Show Case, hosted by Cox Communication, Georgia, USA. He also had work included in the SECAC/MACAA Exhibition at the Parthenon Gallery, Nashville, and Shimmer at Transcultural Exchange in Boston.

Since 1999 he has taught Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design.