carbon copy is an artist-run collective that was formed in 2018 in the SAIC Painting and Drawing Department. It began with a smile at the thought of exploiting a loophole in the system. Founding members are Brigette Borders, Danny Bredar, Nathan Everett Engel, Ed Oh, Daniel Salamanca, WooJin Shin, and Leah Ke Yi Zheng. Participating artists as of today include Rosemary Hall, Garrett Fees, Moon Bae, Alex Leasure, Tsailing Tseng, Micah Schippa, Miji Shin, Yitian Yan, Lauren Sullivan, Any Angel, Oscar Zheng, and J.C.’s ashes. CC currently operates from Chicago, Berlin, and Bogotá.