After completing his studies at the recently founded Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice, Ján Vasilko has become one of the most significant and respected representatives of young artists coming from Kosice and emerging on the Slovak art scene. He is also the laureate of Strabag International Art Award from 2009. Being a painter in his very nature, in his thinking, he is remarkably engaged in the social issues. The most significant characteristic of his oeuvre is his ”philosophy of utopia” shaped by the city of Košice that despite being the heart of the agricultural region is the center of the hard industry.