Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site.

# imi hwangbo

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://imihwangbo.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Imi Hwangbo awarded 2026 Artist Residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts](https://imihwangbo.com/imi-hwangbo-awarded-2026-artist-residency-at-the-virginia-center-for-the-creative-arts/) - Imi Hwangbo was awarded an artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for the summer of 2026. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is an international artist residency program in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts is one of the largest year-round residency
- [“Reverie” at Hawthorn Contemporary](https://imihwangbo.com/reverie-at-hawthorn-contemporary/) - Imi Hwangbo will exhibit her work in a solo show entitled “Reverie” at Hawthorn Contemporary from September 17 through November 17, 2022. This solo show will be an encompassing exhibition that presents her large-scale constructed drawings. “Reverie” will also premiere her new work in Constructed Prints. Hawthorn Contemporary, located in the historic Walker’s Point neighborhood
- [Imi Hwangbo awarded 2025 Georgia Committee of National Museum of Women in the Arts Distinguished Fellowship](https://imihwangbo.com/imi-hwangbo-awarded-2025-georgia-committee-of-national-museum-of-women-in-the-arts-distinguished-fellowship/) - Imi Hwangbo was awarded the 2025 Distinguished Fellowship, a partnership between the Georgia Committee of National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences. This merit-based award is granted to a female artist working in Georgia, and includes a residency and stipend at the Hambidge Center. The
- ["The Diviner Series" at Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston](https://imihwangbo.com/the-fathom-series-at-the-ellen-miller-gallery-in-boston/) - “The Diviner Series”, a solo exhibition of new constructed drawings and prints by Imi Hwangbo, will be shown at the Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston from November 29 – December 21, 2024. Imi Hwangbo’s delicate reliefs carve two dimensional patterns, creating lines with edges, and shapes with negative space. Trained as a sculptor, Hwangbo’s practice
- [“Lepidoptera” at the Zuckerman Museum](https://imihwangbo.com/lepidoptera-at-the-zuckerman-museum/) - Imi Hwangbo will exhibit her work in a solo project entitled “Lepidoptera” at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw from January 10 - July 29, 2023. The exhibition will present her work in constructed drawings, an art form in which she cuts and layers translucent paper in such quantity that sculptural forms are created.
- [New Constructed Print Series](https://imihwangbo.com/new-constructed-print-series/) - The Constructed Print Series is a new line of work from the Imi Hwangbo Studio. The new prints combine elaborate patterns in cut paper with a hand-drawn image. Each print begins with a drawing in pencil that evokes an optical illusion of great depth. The images are transformed into prints, and contrasted with cut paper
- [“Before, During, and After Part II” at the Sandler Hudson Gallery](https://imihwangbo.com/before-during-and-after-part-ii-at-the-sandler-hudson-gallery/) - Imi Hwangbo’s work is exhibited in “Before, During, and After Part II” at the Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta though January 16, 2021. This group exhibition features twelve represented artists: John Belingheri, Betsy Cain, Namwon Choi, Maggie Davis, Margaret Fletcher, Cheryl Goldsleger, Michael T. Hensley, Imi Hwangbo, Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, Greely Myatt, Yanique Norman and John
- [“Paper Routes” in ArtsATL and Burnaway](https://imihwangbo.com/paper-routes-in-artsatl-and-burnaway/) - Imi Hwangbo’s work in the show “Paper Routes” was reviewed in ArtsATL and Burnaway. ArtsATL is Atlanta’s source for art news and reviews providing comprehensive coverage of the arts in Atlanta. Burnaway is an Atlanta-based digital magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South. ArtsATL: “Paper Routes,” 5 Georgians More than Prove They’re
- ["Cut & Paste: Works of Paper" at the Telfair Museum in Savannah](https://imihwangbo.com/cut-paste-works-of-paper-at-the-telfair-museum-in-savannah/) - Imi Hwangbo’s works on paper are on exhibition in “Cut & Paste: Works of Paper” at the Telfair Museum in Savannah through 2021. This exhibition focuses on the ways in which contemporary artists manipulate paper to create remarkable drawn, sculptural, assembled, woven, or folded works of art. “Cut & Paste” has travelled to five venues
- [Documentary short on Imi Hwangbo by Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts](https://imihwangbo.com/documentary-short-on-imi-hwangbo-by-georgia-committee-of-the-national-museum-of-women-in-the-arts/) - A film on the studio practice of Imi Hwangbo has been produced by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Part of a series by Atlanta filmmaker Janey Fugate, this short film documents Imi Hwangbo in her studio as she prepares for “Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020” at the
- [Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia](https://imihwangbo.com/paper-routes-women-to-watch-2020-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art-georgia/) - Imi Hwangbo will exhibit in "Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020", an exhibition of contemporary works on paper organized by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. The exhibition is curated by Michael Rooks of the High Museum, and will take place from January 24 - March
- [“The Oracle Series” at Art on Paper, Pier 36, New York City](https://imihwangbo.com/the-oracle-series-at-art-on-paper-pier-36-new-york-city/) - “The Oracle Series” by Imi Hwangbo will premiere in New York City at the Art on Paper Art Fair during Armory Week from March 8-11, 2018. “The Oracle Series” will be exhibited with the Ellen Miller Gallery at Booth 303 on Pier 36 at 299 South Street. Art on Paper features eighty national and international
- [“The Oracle Series” is acquired by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute](https://imihwangbo.com/the-oracle-series-is-acquired-by-the-dana-farber-cancer-institute/) - “The Oracle Series," a new series of constructed drawings by Imi Hwangbo, has been acquired by the Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. In this series of three-dimensional drawings, the artist has combined floral and geometric patterns with a field of brilliant color. Silhouetted by a palette of blues
- [Imi Hwangbo at Gallery 10<br />Sculpture Magazine](https://imihwangbo.com/sculpture-magazine/) - By: Glenn Harper, Sculpture Magazine editor One of the primary subjects of art is, quite naturally, the cultural climate in which the artist finds him/herself. It should be no surprise, then, that one of the primary subjects of contemporary art is popular culture, or that today artists are often drawn to the popular art form
- [Drawn into Light: Works with Paper by Imi Hwangbo](https://imihwangbo.com/drawn-into-light/) - By: Lilly Wei Second Street Gallery 2004 Everyone has a vision of perfection, don't you think? Agnes Martin Imi Hwangbo transfixes and is transfixed by detail. In this group of remarkable drawings on hand-cut mylar, the artist begins with a visual unit and multiplies it, using repetition as a method and, beyond that, a kind
- [Under the Surface: Imi Hwangbo<br />Sculpture Magazine](https://imihwangbo.com/under-the-surface/) - January/February 2005 Vol.24 No.1 A publication of the International Sculpture Center by Cathy Byrd A finely drawn line separates Imi Hwangbo’s sensual sculptures of the 1990s from the discretely dimensional objects that she makes today. The swollen forms of “The Waiting Chamber” series have given way to exquisite introspection. Before, she carved and modeled organic
- [Imi Hwangbo at Miller Block Gallery<br />Art in America](https://imihwangbo.com/millar-block-gallery/) - By: Ann Wilson Lloyd Art in America, March 2008 Imi Hwangbo's three-dimensional drawings consist of aligned layers of Mylar -- sometimes as many as 30. Each layer is hand cut with incredible precision in all-over stylized floral or geometric designs and mounted with slight spacing in between layers, to create delicate sculptural reliefs. Hwangbo bases
- [Cut, Folded, Dyed, and Glued: Sculptures by Imi Hwangbo and Jae Ko](https://imihwangbo.com/cut-folded-dyed-and-glued-sculptures-by-imi-hwangbo-and-jae-ko/) - Jo-Ann Conklin, curator David Winton Bell Gallery Brown University, 2008 Imi Hwangbo has created a series of mesmerizing works. These delicate sculptural reliefs elicit awe, inspired by the elegant beauty of their floral and geometric patterns and the laborious methods of their construction. Works from the Pojagi Series, which dates from 2003 to the present,
- [Portals: Interview With Imi Hwangbo<br /> Huffington Post](https://imihwangbo.com/portals-interview-with-imi-hwangbo/) - Imi Hwangbo was born in Daegu, South Korea. She received her MFA from Stanford University, and has been a resident at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the American Academy in Rome, and the Carmargo Foundation in France, among many others. She lives and works in Athens, Georgia, where she is Associate Professor at my alma mater,
- [Video of "the Oracle Series"](https://imihwangbo.com/video-of-the-oracle-series/) - https://vimeo.com/181071664
- [“Madrigal” at the Michele Mercaldo Studio in Boston](https://imihwangbo.com/madrigal-at-the-michele-mercaldo-studio-in-boston/) - Madrigal, a solo exhibition of constructed drawings by Imi Hwangbo, will be on view at the Michele Mercaldo Studio in Boston, Massachusetts from January to February 2017. Hwangbo’s constructed drawings are fabricated with translucent mylar that is colored, cut, and layered to create sculptural reliefs. The imagery is based on the decorative patters of Italian
- [“Portals: Interview With Imi Hwangbo” in The Huffington Post](https://imihwangbo.com/portals-interview-with-imi-hwangbo-in-the-huffington-post/) - Imi Hwangbo received her MFA from Stanford University, and has been a resident at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the American Academy in Rome, and the Carmargo Foundation in France, among many others. She lives and works in Athens, Georgia, where she is Associate Professor at my alma mater, the University of Georgia. She currently has
- [“The Oracle Series” at the Miller Yezerski Gallery in Boston](https://imihwangbo.com/the-oracle-series-at-the-miller-yezerski-gallery-in-boston/) - “The Oracle Series”, a new exhibition of constructed drawings by Imi Hwangbo, will be shown at the Miller Yezerski Gallery in Boston from September 9-October 11, 2016. Imi Hwangbo's delicate reliefs carve two dimensional patterns, creating lines with edges, and shapes with negative space. Trained as a sculptor, Hwangbo's practice combines image, object, and material. Her work

## Pages

- [Home](https://imihwangbo.com/) - Hwangbo’s geometric motifs and lacy botanicals are related to traditional designs, filtered through a modernist syntax of diamonds, circles, and squares configured as infinitely expandable systems in which solids and voids are similarly important and mind and dream intertwine.
- [About](https://imihwangbo.com/about/) - Download CV (pdf) 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 painter Nathan Oliveira. Ms. Hwangbo has been the recipient of numerous international artist fellowships, with residencies at the American Academy in Rome and the Camargo Foundation in
- [Contact](https://imihwangbo.com/contact/) - Gallery Representation Ellen Miller Gallery 450 Harrison Avenue, #309A Boston, MA 02118 Email: Ellen Miller ellen@ellenmillergallery.com Phone: 617.620.9818 Website: ellenmillergallery.com Sandler Hudson Gallery 739 Trabert Ave NW, Suite B Atlanta, GA 30318 Email: gallery@sandlerhudson.com Phone: 404.817.3300 Website: sandlerhudson.com Photography by Michael McKelvey, Atlanta
- [Process](https://imihwangbo.com/process/) - About “The Constructed Print Series” The new prints begin with a hand-made drawing in pencil that evolves slowly over a period of several months. Graphite is layered to create rich darks, and the outer perimeter is created with tiny, pointillistic marks. Gradually, an image develops that evokes an illusion of deep space, which is then
- [Works](https://imihwangbo.com/works/) - Constructed Drawings and PrintsOracle SeriesPortal SeriesLarge-scale WorksVerso VariationsClarion Series
- [News](https://imihwangbo.com/news/)
- [Press](https://imihwangbo.com/press/)

## Portfolio

- [Constructed Drawings and Prints](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/constructed-drawings-and-prints/) - Muse, 20” x 16.5” x 1,” framed, archival ink on cut paper, 2024 Muse detail Solstice II, 29” x 20 ¼”, print and cut paper, 2024 Solstice II detail Incarnate II, 29” x 20 ¼”, print and cut paper, 2024 Incarnate II detail Reverie, 24.5 x 19.24 inches, cut paper and digital print, 2022 Reverie,
- [Large-scale Works](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/large-scale-works/) - Diviner, 66" x 28" x 3”, archival ink on hand-cut mylar, 2010 Diver detail Blessé, 132" x 108" x 5”, archival ink on hand-cut mylar, 2004 Blessé detail Blesse detai Spire, 62" x 62" x .5”, archival ink on hand-cut mylar, 2004 Spire detail Mitosis, 55” x 55” x .5”, archival ink on handout mylar,
- [Portal Series](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/portal-series/) - Hwangbo’s work is geared toward an impossible attempt to achieve perfection. Derived from meticulously calibrated optical effects, Hwangbo’s works are more actually reliefs, measured, however, in millimeters, and extremely delicate in appearance.
- [Thumbnail Test](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/thumbnail-test/) - About Imi Hwangbo’s delicate reliefs carve two dimensional patterns, creating lines with edges, and shapes with negative space. Trained as a sculptor, Hwangbo’s practice combines image, object, and material meticulously. Her work recalls the traditional Korean art of pojagi: four-cornered wrapping cloths embroidered with patterns which reference Korean folk beliefs. Hwangbo’s patterns begin as hand-drawn
- [Clarion Series](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/clarion-series/) - Clarion, 7.5" x 9" x 1”, archival ink on handcut mylar, 2004 Clarion detail She Speaks, 7.5" x 9" x 1”, archival ink on handcut mylar, 2004 She speaks detail Azure Seer, 6" x 8" x .5”, archival ink on handcut mylar, 2004 Azure Seer detail Cloister, 6” x 8 " x 1 “, archival
- [Verso Variations](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/verso-variations/) - “The Verso Variations” explores the concept of portals onto a transcendent space. Based on the frescoes of the San Rufino Cathedral in Assisi, this series of constructed drawings references sacred ornamentation that has been eroded by time.
- [Oracle Series](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/oracle-series/) - Imi Hwangbo's delicate reliefs carve two dimensional patterns, creating lines with edges, and shapes with negative space. Trained as a sculptor, Hwangbo's practice combines image, object, and material meticulously. Her work recalls the traditional Korean art of pojagi: four-cornered wrapping cloths embroidered with patterns which reference Korean folk beliefs. Hwangbo's patterns begin as hand-drawn shapes following natural gestures, which she interprets with cut paper and mylar. The completed piece creates depth with layered apertures and overlapping edges.
- [test](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-item/test/) - Portal details Portal, 60" x 5.5" x 1”, archival ink on hand-cut mylar, 2005 Without Being detail Without Being, 64" x 25" x 3”, archival ink on hand-cut mylar, 2003 Lepidoptera detail Lepidoptera, 73" x 15" x 2”, archival ink on hand-cut mylar, 2005 Verso Variations 1, 14.5" x 11.5" x .5”, archival colored pencil

## Categories

- [News](https://imihwangbo.com/category/news/)
- [Press](https://imihwangbo.com/category/press/)

## Portfolio Categories

- [works](https://imihwangbo.com/portfolio-category/works/)