Ingrid Mwangi was born in 1975 in Nairobi, Kenya, while Robert Hutter was born in 1964 in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany. Both received degrees in New Artistic Media from the University of Fine Arts Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany and have received scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, and residency scholarships of the Rhineland-Palatinate studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.

After working together for several years and marrying, Mwangi and Hutter merged their names and biographies becoming a single artist, Mwangi Hutter. Working with video, photography, installation, sculpture, and performance, they use their artistic identity as the sounding board to reflect on changing societal realities, creating an aesthetics of self-knowledge and interrelationship.