Jonathan Korotko was born on September 30th in the year 1992. He grew up in small
towns of rural Wisconsin, resulting in his infinity for pick-up trucks, and the smell of diary
farms. He loved to explore at an early age and had a curiosity his mother would call
“ruthless”. Always wanting to know, learn, and simply understand, question asking was his
favorite sport. His imagination acted as the vehicle on the pursuit of obtaining and realizing
knowledge. He entered an undergraduate degree at Carroll University in 2012 majoring in
Fine Arts where creatively he could continue questioning concepts, theories, and histories
relevant to his own identity. Within his undergraduate degree, print and bookmaking quickly
became the articulation of his art practice. For him, the dissemination of knowledge via a book
or within print conceptualized the thematics he was trying to grasp. Graduating in 2016, he
knew there were many questions he still sought answers to. In the fall of 2017 he entered a
MFA program at TheSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) within the Printmedia
division.