XCOPY
- Identity
- Pseudonym
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- KnownOrigin
- 14 copies across 13 works, collected since January 2023; 13 held at the latest snapshot
XCOPY is a pseudonymous digital artist whose interviews frame death and dystopia as recurring subjects: the artist has said that contrasting everyday problems with death temporarily diminishes their power, while encroaching dystopia makes the subject difficult to avoid.1 Works discussed in that interview connect crisis, labor, debt, advertising, censorship, commuting, and institutional power to the artist’s visual language.1 In a separate preservation-focused interview, XCOPY confirmed entering NFT art in early 2018 and described the work as a maintained “garden,” emphasizing backups and favoring fully onchain Ethereum storage or IPFS.2 Art Blocks lists XCOPY as the artist behind the Studio project ICXN.3
Collecting record
| Date | Work | Copy | Event | ETH | Transaction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxmen | 7/20 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| Echoes of a Dead Earth (blue) | 4/10 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| hello admin dm me | 6/20 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| The Deadness | 25/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| No Favour (cold) | 13/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| Best-case Scenario | 5/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| The Damage | 2/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| The Damage | 3/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| E X P O S U R E | 3/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| EYE-ROLLA | 18/25 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| Do Nothing (new variant) | 12/15 | Received | · | 0x3600…3648 | |
| The Doomed (black & green) | 4/6 | Received | · | 0x98f8…a928 | |
| The Doomed (black & red) | 9/15 | Received | · | 0x98f8…a928 | |
| The Doomed (black & green) | 4/6 | Transferred out | · | 0xf268…1e75 | |
| The Doomed | 70/100 | Received | · | 0x6d50…05da |
References
Interviews and first-person sources
Cited for this account: XCOPY is a pseudonymous digital artist whose interviews frame death and dystopia as recurring subjects: the artist has said that contrasting everyday problems with death temporarily diminishes their power, while encroaching dystopia makes the subject difficult to avoid.
Breezy, “A nice talk with XCopy through his/her/their art!” Artsy, 21 October 2021, artsy.net/article/breezy-nice-talk-xcopy (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Cited for this account: In a separate preservation-focused interview, XCOPY confirmed entering NFT art in early 2018 and described the work as a maintained “garden,” emphasizing backups and favoring fully onchain Ethereum storage or IPFS.
Jason Bailey, “An Interview with XCOPY,” Right Click Save, 2 December 2022, rightclicksave.com/article/an-interview-with-xcopy (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Press and criticism
Cited for this account: Art Blocks lists XCOPY as the artist behind the Studio project ICXN.
“XCOPY,” Art Blocks, artblocks.io/artists/xcopy (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎