Jefferson Pinder (born 1970, Washington, D.C.) is an African-American performance artist whose work provokes commentary about race and struggle.

Working primarily with neon, found objects, and video, Pinder investigates identity through dynamic circumstances and materials.

His work has been featured in group and solo shows including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, Showroom Mama in Rotterdam, Netherlands, The Phillips Collection, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

[citation needed] Pinder gained national attention with the exhibition Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2006.

In 2021, Pinder was featured in "Selections from the Inertia Cycle", a series of video performance works at Western Carolina University.