Since completing formal studies in fine art and the history of art at the Slade School of Art (Dip FA), University College London (BA) and Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, PhD), these aspects of his work have continued to develop in tandem. An inspirational teacher and course leader for forty years, he has lectured extensively in colleges and universities in Britain, the USA and Israel. In 2010, he was appointed Wingate post-doctoral research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and in 2013-14 he was elected G. F. Watts Associate Artist at Watts Gallery, Compton.

He has contributed actively to the recovery of drawing language in art polemics and higher education through practice‐led research, exhibitions and publications, as Paul Mellon Research Fellow (1993-4), curator and author of Drawing on these Shores: A View of British Drawing and its Affinities (Bath and Brighton Festivals and tour); a member of the founding cohort of the Royal Drawing School, and convenor of the mind-spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human symposium at Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. Two essays on art education, one focussing on the life and work of Slade Professor Sir William Coldstream and the other, on the life-time achievements of the artist and art historian John Golding CBE, will be published in 2021. He has led numerous workshops at the British Museum, the Royal Collections Trust, the University of Surrey, the Department of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University, the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Haifa, among others.

Original research in museums, libraries and archives in Central and Eastern Europe, culminated in exhibitions and publications on the subject of the ‘Imagination in Internment’. These include, On the Track of Tyranny, Wiener Library, London (1983), Artists Witness the Shoah, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (1995) and Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory, Imperial War Museum, London (2001) and Yehuda Bacon: Disseminating Memory, Lines Across an Abyss (PhD Thesis, University of London, 2009). He is a contributing author to: The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz (ed. David Mickenberg and Corinne Granof; Northwestern University, Chicago 2002); Concentrationary Memories (ed. Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman; I. B. Tauris, London, 2012); Jankel Adler und die Avantgarde: Chagall, Dix, Klee, Picasso (ed. Antje Birthälmer and Gerhard Finckh; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, 2018) and The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Post-War Diaries of a Child Survivor (ed. Sharon Kangisser and Dorota Julia Nowak; Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, September 2019).

Sujo’s earliest artistic influences were shaped by the circle of Latin American Modernists that included Alejandro Otero, Mercedes Pardo, Elsa Gramcko, Luisa Richter and Gego. Since his first solo exhibition in Britain, Histories at Arnolfini, Bristol, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1982, he has continued to exhibit his work widely, notably in A Cabinet of Drawings, University of Northumbria Art Gallery, Newcastle and Lines of Enquiry: Thinking through Drawing, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge (2006). Anatomies, a suite of sixty studies of the human skeleton and the écorché were shown in October 2014 at Eton College, coinciding with workshops at the Royal Collections Trust, Windsor, home to Leonardo’s anatomical drawings. This followed on the success of Lifelines, Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey in November 2013. In a recapitulation of the subject of Anatomies his drawing Écorché and Skull, 1992, was recently included in a major survey exhibition, Bodyscapes, at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Sujo’s work has been acquired by a number of major institutional collections including the British Museum, Imperial War Museum, University College Art Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Jewish Museum, New York; the Israel Museum and Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Galería de Arte Nacional and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas.

Recent

Publications & Lectures

Book chapter, The Holocaust and the Visual Arts: Perplexity, Meaning in Cambridge History of the Holocaust (Mark Roseman, ed.) Volume 4, ‘Outcomes, Aftermath, Repercussions’ (Laura Jockusch and Devin Pendas, ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (forthcoming). 

Book chapter, Desiderata in Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter (an anthology of essays in celebration of the life of Sir William Coldstream CBE;
Catherine Coldstream, ed., with contributions by Catherine Lampert, Lynda Morris, Peter Rumley, et al) Oxford: The Coldstream Press (forthcoming).

Lecture, The Revealed Hand in ‘Colloquium & festschrift, in honour of Dr. Shulamith Behr.’ Co-convener with Dr. Robin Schuldenfrei, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 20 March 2024.

Lecture, Ekphrasis and interpretation, when words fail in ‘“To tear these images from time” Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos and the Holocaust’, Conference held at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar, 9-12 October 2023.

Lecture, Gleanings from the Sketchbooks of Jankel Adler: Roadmaps to Cosmopolitanism and International Modernism? in ‘Émigré Art Archives Symposium’. Contributors: Monica Bohm-Duchen (respondent), Rachel Dickson, Peter Eaves, Adrian Glew, Alexandra Lazar, Sarah MacDougall, Joanne Rosenthal, Ines Schlenker, Glenn Sujo. Tate Gallery Archives, London, 16 June 2023.

Lecture, East-West: Art, Rhetoric and Indexicality after 1945 (with Raised Arm and Fist) in ‘Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades.’ Conveners, Agata Pietrasik and Daniel Véri. Freie Universität Berlin, 9–10 June, 2023.

Lecture, Aporiai: Reflections on the discontinuities of time, memory and the visual field after in Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exiles Studies, University of London, 9 - 11 March 2021.

Keynote lecture, Young Blood and the Exterminatory Idea: A Continuum? in ‘Migrations & the Visual Arts: The Second Generation Experience’, Symposium, University of Leicester with the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Leicester, 7 May 2021.

Book chapter, 24 Ashchurch Park Villas: Theatre of Light in John Golding Remembered (an anthology of essays in celebration of the artist, curator, educator, historian of modern art, Dr. John Golding CBE (Jenna Lundin-Aral, ed. Contributors: Dawn Adès, Richard Calvocoressi, Elizabeth Cowling, Christopher Green, John Richardson, Edmund de Waal, et al) London: John Golding Artistic Trust, Spring 2021.

UK
Ben Uri Art Gallery, London
The British Museum, London
The Courtauld Gallery, London
Imperial War Museum, London
University College Collections, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Wellcome Trust, London
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Leicestershire Collection for Schools & Colleges, Leicester
Southern Arts, Arts Council for England
Schlee Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery

USA/ ISRAEL/ VENEZUELA
Jewish Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas