Suzanne Wolfe was born in Chicago, Illinois and received three degrees from the University of Michigan, including a BA in anthropology in 1965, a BSD in art in 1968, and an MFA with concentration in ceramics in 1970.   Since 1971, she has been a professor of ceramics at the University of Hawai’i in Honolulu, Hawai’i, where she teaches courses at all levels.  Her specialty is mold-making and image transfer techniques.

Her work is included in collections in the United States (Honolulu Academy of Arts; the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Arizona State University Museum in Tempe, Arizona) as well as international venues  (the collections of Ms. Yaeko Shiotsuki, Tokyo, Japan; the American Ceramics Museum in Fuping, Shaanxi Province, China; the Taipei Yingke Museum of Ceramics, and Anadolu University Art Museum in Turkey).

She has organized the East-West Ceramics Collaborations for professional ceramic artists held at the University of Hawai’i in 1995, 1998, 2002, and 2006, which have included workshops, presentations, and exhibitions, and has published video and CD documentation of the events.  In addition, she has organized the Korea/Hawaii and Asia/Pacific workshops for students and faculty in 2003 and 2004, respectively.