Glenn Suokko studied art and design at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston and was graduated in 1982 with a bachelor of fine arts in design.

In 1983, he was hired as art director for CW Communications, a computer magazine publisher in Peterborough, New Hampshire.

In 1985 he interviewed Andy Warhol about his use of the computer in his art and co-authored “Andy Warhol: An Artist and His Amiga,” for AmigaWorld Magazine. The interview—one of the last to be conducted with the artist—has been translated into several languages. Suokko also worked with Warhol in creating a portrait of the artist that was published in the same volume. The interview and portrait were reprinted in 2004, in “I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews” by Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York.

In 1986 Suokko was admitted to Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

After his first year at Cranbrook Academy of Art, he was awarded an internship in the corporate design office at Philips, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. While living in Europe, he traveled to many cities in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany to visit the major art museums to look at master paintings in their collections.

He returned to Cranbrook Academy of Art and was graduated in 1988 with a master of fine arts.

In 1988, Suokko was hired by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota as chief designer and manager of the museum’s design department, responsible for the design of exhibition catalogues and related graphic design materials, exhibition graphics, and museum signage. He served as assistant curator to produce the exhibition and accompanying catalogue, Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History, and was art director for Design Quarterly, published by Walker Art Center and MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1990, he established his own design studio, Glenn Suokko, Inc., in Woodstock, Vermont where he continues to work independently for museums, galleries, publishers, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations to create visual identities, publications, and marketing materials. His studio offers design, photography, writing, and editing services.

In 1999, he began to paint pictures. Primarily a still life painter, Suokko is self-taught. He has studied painting and technique through practice and research and direct observation of many of the paintings in museum collections in France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, and the United States.

In 2005, he and his wife Ann Billings Suokko created Pastoral, a biannual resource that features the individuals, processes, and products inspired by the fertile environment of Vermont. That same year they established Pastoral Exhibitions. Held each year at a different historic site in Vermont, the annual exhibition is an opportunity for visitors to meet and see the work of the individuals and organizations that have been featured in the publication.

In 2007, the Printing Industries of New England honored Pastoral with the PINE Award for Best Publication of the Year.

Suokko Art and Design, a gallery space in the heart of the historic village at 23 Elm Street in Woodstock, Vermont opened to the public on Independence Day, July, 2008. Paintings, photographs, and publications by Glenn Suokko; handmade products by the Suokko family; and selected art and antiques from the United States and Europe are exhibited.

Glenn Suokko lives with his wife, Ann, and their children Gertrude and Alden, in Woodstock, Vermont.