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.

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.

[5] A 2006 film installation, Pink & White-A Play in Two Time Directions, features eight projections showing black-and-white found footage, emphasizing their interest in early cinema, and the surrealist graphic intensity of photographer Man Ray.

In 2000, Kopystiansky was awarded the Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, and in 2008 she received a Residences Internationales aux Recollets in Paris, France.