Svetlana Kopystiansky

Quick Facts

Full Name	Svetlana Kopystiansky
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 11, 1950(1950-11-11)
Age	74
Birthplace	Voronezh
Country	Russia
Birth City	Voronezh Oblast
Horoscope	Scorpio

Svetlana Kopystiansky Biography

Svetlana Kopystiansky is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on November 11, 1950 in Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast, Russia.

Svetlana Kopystiansky (born (1950-11-11 ) 11 November 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 museum and private collections around the world.

In 1988, she and her husband and collaborator Igor Kopystiansky left the Soviet Union and moved to New York City, which has been their home base since then. In 1990 in New York Svetlana started a new series of large scale sculptures and installation works constructed from editions of books as found objects or readymades. In this group of works real books were placed in wooden boxes in a way that they become visual objects with pages open towards the viewer. For these works were used editions of novels in English. In 1990, Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky received a DAAD artists-in-residency grant that brought them to Berlin, Germany, and resulted in their first solo museum exhibition with a catalogue, “In the Tradition,” curated by René Block for the Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, in the Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin in 1991.

Svetlana Kopystiansky Net Worth

Svetlana Kopystiansky is one of the richest Artist from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Svetlana Kopystiansky 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kopystiansky was born 11 November 1950 in Voronezh, Russia, and from late Seventies till late Eighties was part of a second-generation of “Soviet non- conformist artists” w. In 1979, Svetlana Kopystiansky turned to the avant- garde tradition. Her Correct Figures/Incorrect Figures (1979) commented on the work of Malevich, while White Album (1979) was based on the concept of the “found object” introduced by Marcel Duchamp. The works on paper Plays mimicked Samuel Beckett’s deadpan humor and meditations on life’s banality and contained a reference to Alexander Rodchenko’s ideas. Kopystiansky started working on her two conceptually and formally related series- Landscapes and Seascapes- in 1980. Both series merge text with image: a closer look at either a landscape or seascape reveals a pattern of handwritten text filling the canvas, with excerpts borrowed from classic authors, such as Leo Tolstoy, Beckett and Paul Eluard.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Svetlana Kopystiansky height Not available right now. Joe weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Svetlana Kopystiansky Dating?

According to our records, Svetlana Kopystiansky is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Svetlana Kopystiansky’s is not dating anyone.

Relationships Record : We have no records of past relationships for Svetlana Kopystiansky. You may help us to build the dating records for Svetlana Kopystiansky!

Facts & Trivia

Joe Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Svetlana Kopystiansky celebrates birthday on November 11 of every year.