Kim grew up in the Pacific Northwest, where the region’s forests, coastlines, and shifting textures quietly shaped her creative eye. She began sewing at the age of seven, learning from her mother as they stitched a simple pair of shorts together. That early experience sparked a lifelong fascination with fabric—its tactility, its expressive potential, and its ability to transform.

She earned a degree in Theatre from the University of Washington, a path that deepened her understanding of costume, character, and material storytelling. After graduation, she spent eight years working in the Seattle Opera Costume Shop, surrounded by extraordinary textiles and skilled makers. There, she developed a habit of rescuing small fabric remnants—beautiful scraps too small for practical use yet too compelling to discard. In these fragments, she began to see landscapes: mountains, tree bark, feathers, moss.  

While in Seattle she joined a group of fiber artists whose monthly meetings and encouraging critique nurtured and pushed her work into new possibilities and opened the door to her current fiber‑based practice.

Today, she creates layered textile works inspired by the natural world. She is drawn to the way fabrics interact with one another and with light, and to how stitching can shift a surface from flat to dimensional. Through both machine and hand stitching, she builds compositions that echo the textures, structures, and quiet intricacies found in nature.

Since 2018, she has been a member of Alberta Street Gallery in Portland, Oregon. She now lives and works in Gresham, Oregon, where she continues to explore the expressive potential of fabric and the small wonders found in the world just outside the door.