Hyun Sook Kim

Costume Designer, HYUN SOOK KIM:

Hyun Sook Kim is a professional costume-designer and costume professor at California State University, Fullerton. Kim holds M.F.A. terminal degree from U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M.A. at U of Illinois at Chicago and B.A. from Korea University in Seoul. She has over 30 years of experience as an artist and educator, and is internationally recognized for her intensive costume designs in NYC, LA, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul. Many of her designs have been seen in large-scale productions in big venues such as the National Theatre of Korea, Seoul Arts Center, other international venues including Wellington Michael Fowler Centre, Melbourne State Theatre, etc. Her design for the mega-scale musical The Last Empress has been presented at NYC Lincoln Center, at LA Kodak Theatre, Schubert Theatre, and at Toronto Hummingbird Center, as well as in London’s West End. The award-winning costume design celebrates its 23rd year’s anniversary of long-run performance in 2018. Across the nation, she has designed for the New York LORT, Capital Repertory Theatre and the AEA theatre company, NYC Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Human Race Theatre Company, among others. Kim’s designs have received laudatory reviews by The New York Times and many theatre critics. Recently her costume designs have been selected and exhibited in Costume at the Turn of the Century-1990-2015 at The A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow and in World State Design 2017 at Taipei, Taiwan. In 2019 summer, Kim's costume works have been selected and presented in Prague Quadrennial 2019 as a part of USA National Design team.