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Teaching Areas: Costume Design, Make-up
Biography
Hyun Sook Kim is Associate Professor of Costume Design in the department of Theatre and Dance where she serves as costume designer, teacher, and advisor of costume and makeup design. She earned her MFA in costume design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MA with a thesis in costume design at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and BA at Korea University in communications. At Ball State University, she teaches theatrical costuming, stage make-up, costume design, costume rendering, color studies and costume form & materials, etc. Since arriving at Ball State in 2005, she has successfully designed The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, Festival of Dance 2006, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Rhythm and Soul: A Passion for Latin, Urinetown, The Wild Party, Indiana Choreographer's Dance Concert, Love's Labour's Lost, Nunsense, Camino Real, Just Tango, Noises Off, The Fantasticks, Angels in America-Millennium Approaches, Once Upon a Dance, etc.
Before coming to Ball State, Professor Kim has spent in Korea over 15 years in designing costumes at National Theatre Company, National Dance Company, National Ballet Company, Seoul Arts Center and LG Arts Center, and in teaching at many universities including the Korean National University of Arts, Dankook University and Chung-Ang University.
Professionally, she designed costumes for various large productions of drama, musical, dance, opera, concert such as 1988 Seoul Olympics International Contemporary Dance Festival, Oedipus the King, Othello, Carmen, Richard III, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Good Woman of Setzuan, The World of Minimalist Music, West Side Story, etc. She won prestigious awards in Korea, including the 35th Dong-A Theatre Award in 1999 and the 33rd Baek-Sang Arts Award in 1997. She also won both the 1996 Korean Musical Award and the 1997 This Year's Design Award for the outstanding costume designs of the musical The Last Empress.
As an artist and educator of immense skill, Professor Kim is internationally recognized costume designer and teacher who holds a wealth of international design experiences including professional work on stages in New York, Toronto, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Osaka and Beijing. Her design of the musical production The Last Empress enjoyed a lengthy North American run including two stops at the Lincoln Center in New York City, at the Kodak Theatre and the Schubert Theatre in Los Angeles, and at the Hummingbird Center in Toronto, also in London's West End. The design work is the great achievement still going on running continuously in the world. During the fall of 2010, the musical production has celebrated its 15th year of performance. Also, her costume work has been seen in world-wide exhibitions at Anthem Gallery in Soho, New York City, at Fashion Institute of Vienna, at Hotel Concorde La Fayette in Paris, at Prague Industrial Palace in 1999 and 2007 Prague Quadrennial, in 2008 Fashion Art International Exhibit at Beijing, and in 2009, 2010, 2011 National USITT Design Exhibit. Recently her design work has been exhibited in the 2009 World Stage Design at Seoul, 2010 International Creative Costume Exhibition and 2010 International Invited Fashion Exhibition at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, one of which has been shown as a new display in the Lucina Hall Welcome Center at Ball State University. Also, she was chosen as one the the artists featured in the Fall 2010 Virginia Ball Center Project "Hidden Treasures" at Ball State University.
She is a professional member of USITT, OISTAT (International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians), International Costume Association, Korean Society of Costume, etc.
Her great hope is to dedicate to training of young theatre artists to make them grow to be soulful professionals.