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Jake Berthot (1939-2014) was an abstract painter and art professor from New York. Born in Niagra Falls, NY, Berthot grew up in Clearfield, Pennsylvania before moving to New York City after high school and enrolling at Pratt Institute in 1960. In 1961 he began teaching classes at Pratt which marked the beginning of his career as an art professor. Berthot subsequently taught classes at Cooper Union (1974–81), Yale University (1982-92), the University of Pennsylvania (1993) and the School of Visual Arts (1994 -2013).
Throughout his career as an artist Berthot's work frequently appeared in solo and group exhibitions in both commercial and public galleries. His painting were included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Annual in 1969 and again in 1973; The Corcoran Biennial in 1975; the Venice Biennale, 1976; New Painting – New York at the Hayward Gallery in London in 1979; American Art: 1950 to the Present at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1979; New Works on Paper in 1981 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1984, among other exhibitions. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1983.
His work is held in multiple collections including those of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery, The Phillips Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum among many more.