Igor Kopystiansky
1954–
Introduction
Igor Kopystiansky (born (1954-12-16)16 December 1954 in Lviv) is an American artist, active in New York City since 1988. He has a multimedia practice, including painting, photography, film, and video, with an investigation of painting as his primary paradigm. On works in media of film and video, he collaborates with his wife Svetlana Kopystiansky. His 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, Folkwang Museum, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, ZKM, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Archives of works by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky are located at the Centre Pompidou, Kandinsky Library.
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Introduction
Born n the USSR, in the city called in Russian Lvov or in Ukrainian L’viv.
Country of birth
Ukraine
Roles
Artist, assemblage artist, collagist, conceptual artist, installation artist, painter, sculptor
ULAN identifier
500150586
Names
Igor Kopystiansky, Igor Kopistiansky, Igor Romanovitch Kopystiansky, Igor' Kopystjanskij, Igor' Jakovlevič Kopystjanskij
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