Born on 29 April 1936 in Duga Resa. He started his artistic education at the Zagreb School of Applied Arts, continued at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in the graphic class of professor Marijan Detom in 1961. He was an assistant at the Master's workshop of Krsto Hegedusic (1961-63). As a French government scholarship holder he stayed in Paris in 1964/65.

He has had one-man exhibitions since 1962.

He has staged around 150 one-man exhibitions (Zagreb, Genoa, Lausanne, Venice, Bremen, Krakow, Haarlem, Split, Bologna, New York, Nahau, Trento, Soest, Dubrovnik, Ljubljana, Köln, Liege, Baden bet Wien, Precaen, Wildeshausen, Belgrade, Der Haag, Gelsenkirchen, Paris, Rijeka, Helsinki, Madrid, Genoa, Moscow, Nyon, Berlin, Vicenza, Sarajevo, Bruxelles, Shanngai, Skopje, Rotterdam, Kreuzlingen, Sibenik, Klagenfurt, Mestre, etc.)

He has diplayed his works at group exhibitions since 1960. Since 1963 he has participated at international graphic biennials in Ljubljana, Tokyo, Krakow, Bradford, Mulhaus, Frechen, Grenchen, Liege, and Vancouver.

In 1963 he participated at the Youth Biennial in Paris where he was awarded the first prize for painting; after that he participated at international biennials in Venice, Sao Paulo, Nürenberg, Rijeka, Alexandria and at the drawings triennials in Wroclaw, etc. He has participated at more than 900 exhibitions of Yugoslav art in this country and abroad, as well as at numerous joint international thematic, representative and selective exhibitions throughout the world, such as: Responsive eye, Museum of modern art, New York 1965, and Dialogue between east and west, on the occasion of the opening of the building of the new museum of modern art in Tokyo in 1969.

Grafik der Welt Nürenberg 1971.

Faites vos jeux, Venice 1972, etc.

He has participated at biennials of Yugoslav prints and drawings in Zagreb, and at triennials in Belgrade. He has received around sixty awards for his work. Sutej is a drawer, a graphic artist. He became engaged in serigraphy in 1963. He displayed his first mobile drawings and prints - paper objects in 1968.

The monograph entitled Sutej - drawings by Zvonko Makovic was published in 1981 by The National and University Library, Zagreb. The film Remembrance of Sutej directed by Nenad Puhovski and produced by “Filmoteka 16" appeared in the same year.

His works can be found in numerous private collections, museums and galleries in Europe, United States, Asia : Museum of Modern Art, New York; Library of Congress, Washington; Tate Gallery, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Kunsthalle, Bremen; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musée de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Stadtische Museum, Leverkusen; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musee National, Warsaw; Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo; Ho - Am Art Museum, Seoul, etc.

He is a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and design studies in Zagreb.

He was elected associate member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1990.