Suzanne Dunn was born in Berkeley, CA and raised in Marin County and San Francisco. She currently lives and works in Northern CA on the Sonoma/Mendocino Coast.

Suzanne grew up in an artistic family with an her mother who was an Abstract Expressionist painter and her maternal grandmother who was a watercolorist. Through them she learned about various art movements of the mid 20th century including Minimalism. Dunn later grew to love MCM design and architecture which informs her current line of ceramics.

She started her arts education at high school in painting and ceramics, then continued to work in those mediums at art school. She graduated from San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in 1995. Since leaving SF, she has continued her studio education in ceramics and sculpture.

Dunn is currently working with light and medium tone, sandy stoneware, fired in a cone 6 oxidation firing. The pieces are painstakingly painted by hand and have their own set of design motifs which, occasionally, repeat, but rarely in the same pattern- mugs excepted.

Suzanne also has a background in cone 10-12 wood fired ceramics. She has helped fire several large Anagama kilns in North Wisconsin and Northern California. In the future (2025-2026) she plans to fire her own wood fire kiln which will be based in Northern CA, and will have those pieces available on her web site.

When not in her studio, Suzanne loves to cook, walk on the ocean bluff, and collect interesting rocks on the beach.