Kim, Hyun Sook
Professor of Theatre and Dance
Costume/Makeup Area Head and Advisor
Theatre and Dance
Biography:
Hyun Sook Kim is Tenured Full Professor and Costume & Makeup Area Head and Area Advisor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at CSUF. Kim holds MFA terminal degree in Costume Design from U of Illinois Urbana Champaign - Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and MA at U of Illinois Chicago, and BA from Korea University in Seoul. As a career educator and designer with 40 years’ professional experience, Kim taught at Korea National U of Arts, Chung-Ang U, Ball State U, among others. Kim is internationally recognized for outstanding costume designs in NYC, London, Toronto, LA, Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing and Seoul. Many of the designs have been seen in large-scale productions at prestigious international and national venues. Particularly, Kim’s designs for the mega-scale musical, The Last Empress (Empress Myeongseong), have been presented at NY Lincoln Center, LA Kodak Theatre and Schubert Theatre, and Toronto Hummingbird Center, as well as in London’s West End. The musical has celebrated the long-run success to the present. Across the nation, Kim has designed for the NYC Pan Asian Repertory, the New York State LORT Capital Repertory Theatre, The Human Race Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, East West Players, among others. Kim’s designs have received laudatory reviews from The New York Times and many theatre critics. Internationally, Kim has presented costume designs in the prominent exhibitions in PQ (Prague Quadrennial), WSD (World Stage Design), and International Costume Association Exhibit, etc. Kim’s designs were selected and presented in Costume in the Turn of the Century 1990-2015 at the A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum at Moscow and in World Stage Design 2022 at Calgary, also in World Stage Design 2009 and 2017. Particularly in Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Kim’s works have been selected for the U.S.A. National Exhibition in 1999, 2019 and 2023. Also, Kim has been presenting her creative costume artwork in va
Areas of Knowledge:
- Costume Design
- Makeup Design
- Art-To-Wear
- Fashion
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Region(s):
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Global
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