Back Seung Woo

Back Seung Woo (born 1973) is a Seoul-based contemporary artist. He received the 2016 Korea Artist Prize. He has shown internationally and is represented by the Misa Shin Gallery.

Early life and education Back was born in 1973 in Daejeon. He graduated from Chung Ang University with a Master's of Fine Arts in photography in 2002, having previously completed a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in 2000.

Career Back, who is based in Seoul, the Getty Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Back's series in the latter's collection consists of five pieces from the artist's Blow up series, which is part of the Getty's larger holdings. Back created the series as a follow up to his cultural exchange trip to North Korea.

His work from the Utopia series is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. The series deals with the architectural propaganda of Pyongyang. These photographs have been called "dystopian landscapes."