Svetlana Kopystiansky
1949
American visual artist (born 1950)
Svetlana Kopystiansky 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. Archives by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky are located at the Centre Pompidou.