About Glenn Suokko
I am an artist, designer, and author based in Vermont. My work reflects a lifelong pursuit of clarity, proportion, and quiet beauty—qualities shared across my painting, design, and writing. Through my gallery, studio, and publications, I explore the relationship between art and daily life, creating work rooted in craftsmanship, simplicity, and enduring form.
I am an artist, designer, and author based in Vermont, where I paint, write, and create books on art and design. My work spans disciplines but is guided by a single pursuit: to express clarity, proportion, and beauty through thoughtful craftsmanship.
Today, I manage the Glenn Suokko Gallery in Quechee, Vermont, where my paintings are presented in a calm, reflective environment alongside design projects and selected objects of interest. I also operate a design studio specializing in the creation and production of books for art museums, galleries, and publishers.
As a writer, photographer, and designer, I collaborate with artists, institutions, and publishers to develop book projects that integrate image and text with clarity and integrity. Through this work, I help others share their stories with precision and beauty.
Artist
My painting practice spans still life, landscape, and abstraction, often moving between representation and pure form. I frequently revisit themes across series, exploring how shifts in light, texture, and tone can transform familiar subjects. My paintings are rooted in the seasonal rhythms of rural Vermont, where the natural world continually shapes my sense of color, proportion, and atmosphere.
Whether working on canvas or paper, I seek to convey simplicity and stillness—qualities that invite contemplation. My work reflects the balance between structure and spontaneity, intuition and discipline.
I paint in my studio in Woodstock, Vermont, and exhibit my work at the Glenn Suokko Gallery in nearby Quechee, as well as through private viewings and online. My paintings are held in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Gallery
Since 2009, my wife Ann and I have directed the Glenn Suokko Gallery, originally developed in association with glassmaker Simon Pearce in Quechee, Vermont. The gallery offers visitors a quiet, unhurried setting to view my paintings and the work of other artists we present. Today, it features my oil paintings, selected design projects, and a small collection of historical and antiquarian objects that reflect our shared appreciation for craftsmanship and simplicity.
Book Design
Parallel to my work as a painter, I have maintained an independent design studio in Vermont since 1991. I have designed and produced more than two hundred art books and exhibition catalogues for museums and publishers including Hatje Cantz (Berlin), Rizzoli International Publications (New York), the Barnes Foundation, Harvard Art Museums, MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
My design work has been featured in Print, Metropolitan Home, and Emigre magazines, and is represented in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Catalogue Raisonné
Over the past twenty-five years, I have collaborated with the Li Ching Foundation in Taipei, Taiwan, on the Archives of Modern Chinese Art, a major publishing project devoted to early twentieth-century Chinese modernists. Together, we have produced eight catalogue raisonné volumes in Chinese, French, and English, including works on Sanyu, Pan Yu Lin, and Ting Yin Yung.
In 2024, we published Sanyu: His Life and Complete Works in Oil, the definitive biography and catalogue raisonné of the artist—an achievement that marks more than two decades of collaboration and scholarship.
Author / Photographer / Designer
In addition to painting and book design, I write and photograph projects that explore art, architecture, and the landscape of Vermont. My books include A Way of Living (Simon Pearce); Simon Pearce: Design for Living (Rizzoli International); Shelburne Farms: House, Gardens, Farm, and Barns (Rizzoli International); and The Ledges (private edition).
I have also created and published Peter Brooke: The Nature of Memory and Experience, Peter France, and Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller in Woodstock. Together with my wife Ann, I founded Pastoral, a journal celebrating Vermont’s creative community, and later A New Pastoral, a quarterly journal devoted to cooking and home life.
Education and Early Work
I studied art and design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA, 1982) and the Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA, 1988).
Early in my career, as Art Director for CW Communications in Peterborough, New Hampshire, I interviewed Andy Warhol in his New York studio while he created a digital self-portrait for the cover of Amiga World magazine. The interview was later reissued in I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews 1962–1987 (Carroll & Graf, New York).
From 1988 to 1991, I worked as Senior Designer at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where I oversaw publication and exhibition design and served as Art Director for Design Quarterly, co-published with the MIT Press. During this time, I contributed to the landmark exhibition Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History and its accompanying Abrams catalogue.
I am a Vermont artist, designer, and author whose work unites painting, design, and writing in a pursuit of clarity, proportion, and beauty. Through my studio, gallery, and publications, I explore the harmony between art, nature, and craftsmanship—creating work grounded in simplicity and timeless expression.