Sujin Kim

1991 born in South Korea, Sujin Kim is a filmmaker, animator, illustrator and art educator. She received a BFA in Painting, graduating summa cum laude from Ewha Womans University. Her graduation work got a Best Graduation Work title and gave her the honor of being selected as Vision Ewha Artist. Her current animation has been chosen for the Official Competition of the 2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and won Adobe Prize at EMAP. Her films and animations have been exhibited and screened in South Korea, USA, Germany, Canada, France, and Romania. With artistic creations, she has engaged in education, teaching painting, drawing, animation, filmmaking, and editing. Currently, she is a visual art consultant and advisor for Yueling International Media Company in Beijing. she is pursuing a master’s degree in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts in the USA.

Sujin Kim is an assistant professor for 3D animation at Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts of Arizona State University (ASU). She received a MFA in Experimental Animation with a concentration in 3D animation at the California Institute of the Arts in the U.S. Her films have been exhibited and screened in many film festivals around the world.

She has flexible visual languages ranging from traditional painting to CG techniques. Her artistic passion is to create surrealistic, mythological, and poetic photorealism CG worlds which contain her own artistic 'fingerprint' while searching for alternative modes of storytelling in CG animation. Her commercial projects include collaborations with Roc Nation, Epitaph Records and Warner Music UK.