Svetlana Kopystiansky
1950–
Introduction
Svetlana Kopystiansky (born 1950 in Voronezh) is an American artist, active in New York City since 1988. She has a multimedia practice, including painting, photography, film, and video, with an investigation of language as her primary paradigm. On works in media of film and video, she collaborates with her husband Igor Kopystiansky. Her independent works and their joint works are shown internationally and held in American, European and Australian museum collections including MoMA, Metropolitan, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, ZKM, MUMOK Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Archives by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky are located at the Centre Pompidou.
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Country of birth
Russia
Roles
Artist, assemblage artist, conceptual artist, installation artist, painter, sculptor
ULAN identifier
500150584
Names
Svetlana Kopystiansky, Svetlana Kopistianskaya, Svetlana Kopystianski, Svetalana Kopystiansky, Svetlana Kopystjanskaja, Svetlana Grigorevna Kopystyanskaya
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