Biography

  Hyunsuk Kim is an animator, filmmaker, performer, and writer.  He studied philosophy in Korea before he came to New York to study animation and film.  Since the graduation, he has been involved in different disciplines of arts, exploring himself.  His need to know about death is a motivation for him to create.  He thinks that the only way for him to know about death is to give a birth to an unexpected.  He says, “Death is what life is and vice versa”.  He’ll keep trying this until he finds other ways.  Currently he is seeking a way to live a thousand years while creating a new animation and a new film. 

Festival

  Animation

  (The animation, ‘ManHang’, was presented in all the festivals below.)

  * 2004 Braunschweig International Film Festival
      o Braunschweig Germany
  * 2004 Annecy Animation Festival
      o Annecy France
  * 2003 TIAF Taiwan International Animation Festival
      o Taipei Taiwan
  * 2002 Annecy Animation Festival
      o Annecy, France
  * 2002 Tokyo Museum
      o Tokyo Japan
  * 2002 SIAF
      o Seoul Korea
  * 2002 Hiroshima Animation Festival
      o Hiroshima, Japan
  * 2002 ChunCheon Animation Festival
      o ChunCheon Korea)
      o Awarded “Bronze”
  * 2002 Resfest Digital Film Festival
      o Seoul, Korea
  * 2002 SENEF
      o Seoul, Korea
      o “Honorable Mention”
  * 2002 San Diego Asian Film Festival
      o San Diego U.S.A.
  * 2002 Seoul Cartoon·AniCarnival
      o Seoul, Korea
  * 2002 Animation Center Special Screening
      o Seoul, Korea
  * 2001 Brazilian Anima Mundi
      o Rio de Janeiro Brazil
  * 2001 Siggraph
      o San Antonio, U.S.A.
  * 2001 New York Animation Festival
      o New York U.S.A.
      o “Best Use of Computer/Digital Animation”
  * 1996 SICAF
      o Seoul, Korea

    Cartoon

  * 1996 Seoul International Cartoon Festival
      o Seoul, Korea
      o “Honorable Mention”

Exhibition

  * Smarts Gallery, NY

      ‘Inclination of Time’, video installation

  * 2005 Visual Arts Gallery, NY

      ‘Inclination of Time’, video installation

  * 2003 Engine 27, NY

      ‘Fetus’s Dream’, sound installation with Jimmy Chim, Alex So

  * 2003 Siggraph, Art Gallery

      ‘Inclination of Time’, video installation

Performance/Play

  * 2005 Smarts Gallery

    ‘Dia-monologue’

  * 2005 SVA AmphiTheater

    ‘Dia-monologue’

Presentation

  * 2002 Siggraph, Sketch & Application

      ‘Dynamic Skin Deformation & Animation Controls using Maya Cloth for Facial Animation’ with Jimmy Chim

    The section shared with Dream Works, Walt Disney, ILM

Dance Performance

  * 2005 The Ash Masquerade – Concrete Ritual
  * 2005 Zebulon
  * 2005 Marriott Hotel
  * 2005 Madison Square Park

Education

  * 2003 School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts, Scholarship “Dean’s Grant”
  * 2001 Pratt Institute BFA Computer Graphics

    ‘Best Animation’, ‘Best Special Effects’,  ‘Best Sound Editing’