Imi Hwangbo received her B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from Stanford University, where she studied with the Bay Area Expressionist painter and sculptor Nathan Oliveira.

Ms. Hwangbo has been the recipient of numerous international artist fellowships, with residencies at the American Academy in Rome, the Camargo Foundation in France, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland. Within the United States, she has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

Her work in constructed drawing has been exhibited throughout the country, with shows at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University; the Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, and International Print Center in New York City; the Miller Block Gallery in Boston; Dwight Hackett Projects in Santa Fe; the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina; and the Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. Articles and reviews of her work have appeared in Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since 2001, she has been an associate professor of art at the University of Georgia.