About
Learn more about Glenn Suokko, an artist, designer, and author.
Today, Glenn Suokko is an accomplished artist renowned for his oil paintings. He manages the Glenn Suokko Gallery in Vermont, showcasing his artwork in both online and physical exhibition spaces in Quechee and Woodstock. In addition to his creative practice, Suokko operates a design studio specializing in the creation and production of books for art museums, galleries, and publishers.
As a writer, photographer, and designer, Suokko collaborates with artists, institutions, organizations, and individuals to develop book projects that effectively communicate their vision. Through a thoughtful integration of words and images, he helps his clients tell their stories with clarity and artistic integrity.
Artist
Glenn Suokko is an artist whose work spans still life, landscape, and non-representational forms. He frequently revisits themes, exploring them through diverse techniques that reflect his deep engagement with painting traditions and their histories. His paintings navigate the intersections of art and design, representation and abstraction, as well as control and spontaneity.
Suokko describes a unifying element across his diverse body of work as the painterly interpretation of quietude and natural beauty, inspired by the seasonal rhythms of his rural Vermont environment. Emphasizing simplicity and serenity, his paintings seek to convey these essential qualities.
Working from his studio in Woodstock, Vermont, Suokko exhibits his paintings at his gallery space nearby, during private studio viewings, and online. His artwork is highly sought after by both first-time and seasoned collectors and can be found in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Gallery
Since 2009, Glenn and Ann Suokko have overseen the art gallery they developed in association with glassmaker Simon Pearce in Quechee, Vermont, offering visitors a calm, un-pressured exhibition space to see Suokko’s work and the work of other artists they present displayed in elegant installations. Featured today are Suokko’s oil paintings, design projects, and a collection of antiquarian objects.
Book Designer
Parallel to his work as an artist, Suokko is also a graphic designer. Working independently from his design studio in Vermont since 1991, Glenn Suokko has designed and produced over two hundred art books and exhibition catalogues for publishers such as Hatje Cantz, Berlin; and Rizzoli International Publications, New York; and for art museums such as the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; and the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; and over forty exhibition catalogues for the Studio Art Exhibition Program at Dartmouth College to accompany the program’s series of artist residencies and shows.
His design work has been the subject of editorial features in Print magazine, Metropolitan Home, and Emigre magazine. His work is represented in the permanent collection of the Copper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Catalogue Raisonné
Over the last twenty-five years, Glenn Suokko has designed a series of catalogue raisonné in three languages—Chinese, French, and English—as part of the Archives of Modern Chinese Art, a publishing project by The Li Ching Foundation in Taipei, Taiwan, that began in 2001 with Sanyu: Catalogue Raisonné, Oil Paintings, the first-ever published catalogue raisonné on a Chinese artist. To date, they have collaborated on eight titles presenting the work of Sanyu, Pan Yu Lin, and Ting Yin Yung. In 2024, they produced Sanyu: His Life and Complete Works in Oil, the definitive biography and catalogue raisonné on the French Chinese artist, who today is one of the most coveted modern artists, his paintings having repeatedly broken world records for Chinese modern Western-style art.
Author, Photographer, Designer
In addition to Glenn Suokko’s work as an artist and graphic designer, he is also an author, photographer, and designer of books on art and design, focusing on Vermont subjects. He is coauthor, photographer, and designer of A Way of Living (Simon Pearce); author, photographer, and designer of The Ledges (a private edition), Simon Pearce: Design for Living (Rizzoli International), and Shelburne Farms: House, Gardens, Farm, and Barns (Rizzoli International); creator and publisher of Peter Brooke: The Nature of Memory and Experience, Peter France, and Marsh, Billings, Rockefeller in Woodstock. In 2005, he created with his wife Ann Suokko, Pastoral, a journal that features the individuals, organizations, and products inspired by the fertile and creative environments in Vermont. In 2017, they introduced A New Pastoral, a quarterly home cooking journal.
Education and Early Work
Glenn Suokko studied art and design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (MFA, 1988) and Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts (BFA, 1982).
In 1985 as art director for CW Communications, a computer magazine publisher based in Peterborough, NH, he interviewed Andy Warhol at the artist’s “Factory” studio in New York City while Warhol created a digital self-portrait for the cover of Amiga World magazine (READ MORE). The interview has since been translated into several languages and in 2004 was reissued in I’ll be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews: 1962–1987 (Carroll & Graf, New York).
As senior designer for Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1988–1991), Glenn Suokko oversaw the museum’s publication design, graphic design, and exhibition graphics, and while there, was also art director of Design Quarterly, co-published with The MIT Press. He was actively involved in the creation of the landmark exhibition Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History, as well as the exhibition design and catalogue design (Abrams, New York).