Seung Woo Back

*1973 / Korea, Republic of

Works

Contacts for the work of Seung Woo Back

Seung Woo Back

seungwooback@gmail.com
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Solo exhibitions

WALKING ON THE LINE

Centre A, Vancouver (CA)
26 Nov 2015 – 20 Feb 2016
Deferred Judgement

Artsonje Center, Seoul (KR)
13 May 2011 – 31 Jul 2011
Reviseded Ideals

Gana Art Gallery, Seoul (KR)
10 Sep 2009 – 10 Oct 2009
Revised Ideal

Gana Art New York, New York (US)
10 Sep 2009 – 10 Oct 2009
Revised Ideals

Gana Art Gallery, Seoul (KR)
10 Sep 2009 – 10 Oct 2009
REAL WORLD

FOIL GALLERY, Tôkyô (JP)
26 Oct 2007 – 18 Nov 2007

Group

Artists' Books for Everything

Künstlerbücher für Alles

Weserburg Museum, Bremen (DE)
3 Jun 2017 – 6 Aug 2017

with Sergio Belinchon, Thorsten Brinkmann, Irmgard Dahms, Michael Danner, Andrea Esswein, Andres Galeano, Nanne Meyer, Jenny Schäfer, Nora Schattauer, Timotheus Tomicek, Eva Weber, Thilo Westermann …
Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989

National Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)
4 May 2016 – 24 Jul 2016

with Chan-Hyo Bae, Joon Sung Bae, Bae Bien-U, Jae-Eun Choi, Kyungwoo Chun, Myung-Duck Joo, Yeondoo JUNG, Oksun Kim, In Sook Kim, Atta Kim, Soo Kim, Kim Sang-gil …
North Korean Perspectives

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
23 Jul 2015 – 4 Oct 2015

with Philippe Chancel, NOH Suntag, Tomas Van Houtryve, Marie Voignier, Alice Wielinga
North Korean Perspectives

Drents Museum, Assen (NL)
3 Apr 2015 – 30 Aug 2015

with Philippe Chancel, David Guttenfelder, Tomas Van Houtryve, Alice Wielinga
Well Constructed

Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Korea

AANDO FINE ART, Berlin (DE)
8 Nov 2014 – 20 Dec 2014

with KDK (Dokyun KIM), Hyungmin Moon, Osang Gwon, Hong-Chun Park
Five Views from Korea

Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen (NL)
8 Feb 2014 – 13 Apr 2014

with Jaegu Kang, In Sook Kim, Xuezhe Shen, NOH Suntag
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
3 Mar 2013 – 9 Jun 2013

with Thomas Demand, John Gerrard, Pierre Huyghe, Sharon Lockhart, Trevor Paglen, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Raqs Media Collective, Eve Sussman (+ Rufus Corporation)
More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
7 Jul 2012 – 2 Jan 2013

with Thomas Demand, Leandro Erlich, CAO Fei, John Gerrard, Pierre Huyghe, An-My Le, Sharon Lockhart, Feng Mengbo, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Raqs Media Collective, Eve Sussman (+ Rufus Corporation), Ai Weiwei
Daegu Biennale 2012 - PHOTOGRAPHY IS MAGIC!

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
20 Sep 2012 – 28 Oct 2012

with Lotta Antonsson, Sara Blokland, Sebastiaan Bremer, Bianca Brunner, Denis Darzacq, Nancy de Holl, Liz Deschenes, Charlotte Dumas, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Ebner, Emmeline De Mooij / Viviane Sassen, Jason Evans …
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
3 Jul 2010 – 19 Sep 2010

with Sekwon Ahn, Chan-Hyo Bae, Byung-Sang BANG, Bae Bien-U, Yong-Joon Cho, Kyungwoo Chun, Chuha Chung, EunJi Gim, Hyo Jin IN, Yeondoo JUNG, Sookang Kim, Sanggil Kim …
Everyday Realities

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
3 Jul 2010 – 19 Sep 2010

with Chan-Hyo Bae, Hyo Jin IN, Bohnchang Koo, Sung Soo Koo, Nikki S. Lee, Byung-hun Min, Suk Kuhn Oh, Youngsuk Suh, Won Seoung Won, Yeorrock
On the Cutting Edge - Aspects of Korean Contemporary Photography

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taipei (TW)
17 Jul 2010 – 12 Sep 2010

with Byung-Sang BANG, Oksun Kim, Myong Ho Lee, Nanda, Hein-Kuhn Oh, Osang Gwon, Area Park, Sang-hoon Park, Eunkyung Shin, Yeorrock, JeongMee Yoon
The 10th Photo Festival - Phos+Graphos

Gana Art Gallery, Seoul (KR)
30 Jul 2010 – 22 Aug 2010

with Bae Bien-U, In Sook Kim
Dreamlands

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
5 May 2010 – 9 Aug 2010

with Diane Arbus, Olivo Barbieri, Jordi Bernado, Luigi Ghirri, Laurent Grasso, Andreas Gursky, Pierre Huyghe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Martin Parr, Ed Ruscha, Ettore Sottsass
Urbanization and Globalization: Korean Artists

Gana Art Gallery, Seoul (KR)
7 Oct 2011 – 6 Feb 2010

with Bae Bien-U, TeaWon Jang, In Sook Kim
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (US)
8 Oct 2009 – 3 Jan 2010

with Sekwon Ahn, Chan-Hyo Bae, Byung-Sang BANG, Bae Bien-U, Yong-Joon Cho, Chung Chuha, Kyungwoo Chun, EunJi Gim, Hyo Jin IN, Yeondoo JUNG, Kyung Duk Kim, Yunho Kim …
Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
12 Sep 2009 – 20 Dec 2009

with LUO Dan, Naoya Hatakeyama, ZHANG Huan, Bohnchang Koo, LI Lang, Sze Tsung LEONG, LIU Lijie, Yasumasa Morimura, CHEN Nong, Tomoko Sawada, LIU Zheng
What is real? - The 9th Photo Festival

Gana Art Gallery, Seoul (KR)
12 Sep 2009 – 19 Jul 2009

with Hiraki Sawa
Layered Expressions: Korean Contemporary Photography

Gana Art New York, New York (US)
16 Apr 2009 – 16 May 2009

with Bae Bien-U, In Sook Kim, Jung-Jin Lee
2nd Daegu Photo Biennale - Then & Now: Memories of the Future

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
31 Oct 2008 – 16 Nov 2008

with Mario Ambrosius, Jongheon Bae, Byung-Sang BANG, Margaret Bourke-White, Chao-Tang Chang, Jae-Kyoo Chong, Charlie Crane, Youngsoo Han, Yeondoo JUNG, Sanggil Kim, Oksun Kim, Eunyoung Kim …
2nd Daegu Photo Biennale - Memories of the Future

Koren - Chinese - Japanese Contemporary Photographs

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
31 Oct 2008 – 16 Nov 2008

with Adou, Sekwon Ahn, Emi Anrakuji, Byung-Sang BANG, Bin-Wen Chao, Chin-Pao Chen, I-Chien Chiu, JoongWon Choi, ZHANG Haier, Debbie Han, Yeondoo JUNG, Oksun Kim …
Seoul Photo Triennale II

Seoul Photo Triennale, Seoul (KR)
9 Nov 2005 – 18 Dec 2005

with Eugene Atget, Stéphane Couturier, Chester Higgins, Werner Krüger, Reagan Louie, Martin Parr, Hans Pieler, Paul Seawright, Hong Soon Tai, Michael Wesely, Im Sun Young, Lim Young Kyun
Fast Forward - Photographic Message from Korea

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
8 Oct 2005 – 27 Nov 2005

with Kim Sang Gil, Lee Yoon Jean, Yeondoo JUNG, Atta Kim, Sung Soo Koo, Hwang Kyu Tae, Hein-Kuhn Oh, Area Park, Park Kyoung Taek, Kim Han Yong

Events

Belfast Photo Festival 2019

Belfast Festival, Belfast (GB)
6 Jun 2019 – 30 Jun 2019

with Jacob Burge, Philippe Chancel, Cortis & Sonderegger, Matthieu Gafsou, Alma Haser, Chung Heeseung, Yeondoo JUNG, Oli Kellett, Erik Kessels, Yuki Kihara, Marc Lee, Thomas Mailaender …
2018 Seoul Photo Festival

Brave New World

SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul (KR)
1 Nov 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Kitra Cahana, Alejandro Cartagena, Kenta Cobayashi, Cecile B. Evans, Naoya Hatakeyama, Go Itami, Rinko Kawauchi, Zhang Kechun, Taisuke Koyama, Yoshinori Mizutani, Sun-Min Park, Han Sungpil …
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai

PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Shanghai (CN)
21 Sep 2018 – 23 Sep 2018

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Nicolas Baghir, Julie Blackmon, HAI Bo, CHEN Chieh-Jen, Clark & Pougnaud, ZHANG Dali, Christine de Grancy, Liu Di, CAI Dongdong, Valie Export, YANG Fudong …
MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image

What Does the Image Stand For?

MOMENTA, Montréal (CA)
7 Sep 2017 – 15 Oct 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, Luis Arturo Aguirre, Yto Barrada, Mircea Cantor, Sara Cwynar, Samuel Fosso, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Nelson Henricks, Camille Henrot, Zanele Muholi, J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere