Gordon Onslow Ford (26 December 1912 – 9 November 2003) was one of the last surviving members of the 1930s Paris surrealist group surrounding André Breton.

In 1938, André Breton invited Onslow Ford to join the surrealist group in Paris and attend their meetings in Café deux Magots.

Onslow Ford then became friends with Pierre Mabille, André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Esteban Frances, Wolfgang Paalen, Max Ernst and Victor Brauner among others.

In the summer of 1939, Onslow Ford rented a chateau at Chemilleu near the border of Switzerland, and invited several of his friends to stay for a couple of months.

Among the friends were André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, Esteban Frances, and Kay Sage.

At the outset of World War II, the Society for the Preservation of European Culture invited Onslow Ford to join the surrealists in New York.

That same year, they moved to Mexico where he had previously visited his surrealist friends Wolfgang Paalen, Remedios Varo and Esteban Frances who were all living there.

For six years (1941–1947) Onslow Ford and Johnson lived in Erongaricuaro, a remote village populated by the Purépecha Indians and located on the shores of Lake Patzcuaro.

During their stay they were also visited by many Surrealist friends including Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Remedios Varo, Esteban Frances, Eva Sulzer, Alice Rahon, William Fett, Pierre Mabille, Benjamin Péret, and the poet César Moro.

In 1947, Onslow Ford and Johnson moved to California, choosing the San Francisco Bay Area as the fertile soil where their new ideas would have a chance to grow.

While living in San Francisco, Onslow Ford met the Greek poet Jean Varda and together they acquired the ferryboat Vallejo, which they docked in Sausalito and converted into their studios.

In 1951, Onslow Ford with his friends Wolfgang Paalen, Lee Mullican, and Jacqueline Johnson created an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art called Dynaton.