Born in Electric City, Washington 1938
Works and lives in New York.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1997
Porta Marghera, Biennale de Venice, Italy.
Joseph Helman, New York, New York.

1996
Centre International d'Art Visuel, Marseilles, France
Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas
Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg, Germany
Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota
MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1995
Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
Haines Gallery, San Fransisco, California
Jerimont Gallery, Milano, Italy
Kunstsammlung Tumulka, Munich, Germany
Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio

1994
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Likke, France (retrospective)
Joseloff Art Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
Galeria Greca, Barcelona, Spain
Hoyt Institute of Art, New Castle, Pennsylvania

1993
Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sala D'exposiciones, Principality of Andorra, Andorra
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland (retrospective)
Oulun Taidemuseo, Oulu, Finland (retrospective)
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (retrospective)
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Framartstudio, Naples, Italy

1992
Blum Helman Warehouse, New York
University Galleries, State University of Illionois, Normal
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland
Galeria Greca, Barcelona, Spain
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt, Germany
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1991
Galerie Friebe, Ludenscheid, Germany
Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Galeria Pedro Olieveira, Porto, Portugal
Landfall Press, New York

1990
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Dart Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Berndt - Krips, Cologne
Galerie Joachim Becker, Cannes
Galerie Lohrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt
John Gibson Gallery, New York
Le Chnjour, Nice
Liverpool Gallery, Brussels
Pierides Museum, Athens

1989
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
John Gibseon Gallery, New York
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Paris Art Center, Paris
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
Willoughby Sharp, New York
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1988
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul

1986
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Australia

1985
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Sander Gallery, New York

1984
Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan
Galerie Hans Meyer, Düsseldorf
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Sander Gallery, New York
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv

1983
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Flow Ace Gallery, Venice, California
Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva
Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, England

1982
Bonlow Gallery, New York
Galerie Stampa, Basel
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Lewis Johnstone, London
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

1981
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan
Galerie Marika Malacordia, Geneva
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1980
Cranbrook Academy og Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Flow Ace Gallery, Venice, California
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland

1979
Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan
John Gibson Gallery, New York
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kitchen Center, New York
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (retrospective)
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart

1978
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (retrospective)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (retrospective)

1977
Fine Arts Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
John Gibson Gallery, New York
M.L.D.'Arc Gallery, New York
University of Rhode Island Gallery, Kingston, Rhode Island

1976
Bo Alveryd Gallery, Kavlinge, Sweden
Framartstudio, Naples
M.L.D'Arc Gallery, New York
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (retrospective)

1975
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Gallery Schema, Florence
Gallery Vega, Liège
John Gibson Gallery, New York
Kitchen Center, New York
Oppenheim Studio, Cologne
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
P.J.M. Self Gallery, London

1974
Gallery D, Brussels
Gallery Forma, Genoa
John Gibson Gallery, New York
Oppenheim Studio, Cologne
Paolo Barrozzi, Milan
Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam

1973
Gallery D, Brussels
Gallery Forma, Genoa
Gallery Mayor, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris

1972
Gallery D, Brussels
Mathias Fels, Paris
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Tate Gallery, London

1971
Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

1970
John Gibson Gallery, New York
Reese Palley, San Francisco

1969
Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
John Gibson Gallery, New York

1968
John Gibson Gallery, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1997
L'Empreinte, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Discrimination, Cruelty and Hope, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Private Visions in Public Places, LaSalle Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina

1996
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Fransisco, California
Narcissism: Artist Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Excondido, California.
Chimeriques Polymeres, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Selections from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Outlook on Contemporary Sculpture, Espace Belleville, Paris, France
The Art Embodied, MAC Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseilles, Marseilles, France
Machine, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Landfall Press, Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking, Milvaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Selection from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
Sensory Overdrive, William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
Trilogy-Art, Nature, Science, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
Sculptor's Drawings, Pardo View Gallery, New York, New York

1995
Forces, Humphrey Gallery, New York, NY
Mapping, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Endurance, Exit Art, New York, NY
Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Rock'n Roll: Currents in Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Construction in Process, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Popular Culture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Sound Sculpture, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Happening, The Children's Museum, San Diego, California
Machine, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Action/Performance, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Modernism, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Altered and Irrationmal, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Foundations, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
Death and the Family, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
20 Years of Hallwalls, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York
Art and Technology, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania

1994
Zuge, Zuge, Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York
Transparency + Metaphor, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, California
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lorient, France
in SITE '94, San Diego/Tijuana, California/Mexico
Festival Ibericoamericano de Teatro Bogota, Bogota, Columbia
East of Eden, Museum Schlob Mosigkau, Mogigkau-Dessau, Germany
Personal Heroes, Galeria de la Tour, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From Minimalism to Conceptual Art, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
Wildlife, California Center for the Arts Museum, Excondido, California
Popular Culture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Hartman & Company, La Jolla, California

1993
Sonsbeek '93, Gemeentemuseum Arnheim, Arnhem, Netherlands
The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptor's Drawings, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Heads, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
The Pet Show, Helander Gallery, New York, NY
The Nature of the Machine, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
Art/Functional Art, Turbulence, New York, NY
Portraits d'Objects, F.R.A.C., Picardie, France
Hommage to Miro, Galeria Greca, Barcelona, Spain
Differentes Natures, Espaces Art-Défense, Paris, France
Fall from Fashion , Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Alldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Body Parts, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Photoplay: The Chase Manhattan Collection, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
Leading Edge, Arts and Projects, Salzburg, Austria
Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1992
The Figure, Blum Helman, New York, NY
Nauman, Oppenheim, Serra, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
America Mundo 1992, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
The Endowed Chair, Franklin Parrasch Gellery, New York, NY
Inauguracion, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
Cercles, Musée Abbaye Saint-Leger, Soissons, France
Dessins d'Amériques, F.R.A.C. de Picardie, France
Yvon Lambert Collections, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Communauté Urbaine de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Brain: Internal Affairs, Beatrixhospital, Gorinchem, Netherlands
Paolo Uccello: Battles in the Art of Xxth Century, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy
Paesaggio con Rovine, Comune di Gibellina, Gibellina, Italy
de-Persona, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Carmina Urbana, Musei de Sploeto, Cortona, Italy

1991
After Duchamp, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Mechanika, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Outside America: Going into the 90's, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Persona, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Simposio Internacional de Escultura al Aire Libre, Madrid, Spain
Trains: Burden, Kessler, Oppenheim, Michael Klein, Inc., New York
IIIme Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Word as Image, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

1990
American Express, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Art Conceptuel Formes Conceptual, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
Casino Fantasma, Casino Municipale di Venezia, Venice
Construction in Process: Back in Lodz, 1990, History Museum of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Improbable Machines, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Les Quatres Elements, Usine de Méru, Méru, France
The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Une collection Pour La Grance Arche, La Défense, Paris

1989
Art in Safe, Mai 36 Galerie, Ruine, Geneva
Immaterial Objects, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Intuition, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Object: Installation, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1988
Contemporary Art and Art Criticism, Minos Beach, Crete
Lost and Found in California, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
Second Internation Sculpture Symposium, Olympic Park, Seoul (American representative)
Turning Point: Art and Politics in 1968, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

1987
American Masters: Works on Paper, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Art That Moves, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Laguna, Texas
This is not a Photograph, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Srt, Sarasota, Florida

1986
Fireworks, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Television's Impact on Contemporary Art, Queens Museum, New York

1985
Installations, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annadale-on- Hudson, New York
Moderne Machines, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Symposium National de Sculpture Monumental Métallique, Thiers, France
Time: The Fourth Dimension in Art, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1984
Artpark, Lewiston, New York
Bruce Nauman/Dennis Oppenheim: Drawings and Models for Albuquerque Commissions, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Land Marks, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York

1983
Kunst mit Photographie, Nationalgalerie Berlin
Tel-Hai '83, Tel-Hai College Art Institute, Upper Galilee, Israel
Video Art: Retrospectives/Perspectives, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1982
Accardi, Oppenheim, Pistoletto, Galerie Mario Pieroni, Rome
Alea, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Art on the Beach, Creative Time Incorporated, New York
Art Sans Frontières, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Avanguardia Transavanguardia, Mura Aureliane, Rome
Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy
Past, Present-Future, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart

1981
Biennal '81, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Machineworks, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Metaphor, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Myth and Ritual, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Soundings, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
Video Classics, Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York

1980
Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Dennis Oppenheim and Les Levine, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Ecouter par les Yeux, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Internationale Skulpturen, Wenkenpark, Basel
Morris, Acconci, Oppenheim, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
ROSC International, Dublin
Temporal Structures, Wave Hill, Riverdale, New York
The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale, Venice

1979
Concept, Narrative, Document, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Dialogue, Akron Art Center, Ohio
Expansion, Vienna Biennale, Vienna
Object and Image in Contemporary Sculpture, Detroite Institute of Arts, Detroit
Sound, The Institute for Art and Urban Ressources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Video Art Symposium, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1978
Narrative Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Sculpture/Nature, Centre d'Arts Plastiques, Bordeaux
The Sense of Self, Independant Curator's Incorporated, Washington, D.C.

1977
Biennale '77, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Early Works by Five Contemporary Artists, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran
Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia
A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston
Words, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1976
Body Art, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels; Lousiana Museum fo Moderne Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Rooms, The Institute for Art and Urban Ressources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Venice Biennale, Venice

1975
Art as Living Ritual, Vienna Artpark, Lewiston, New York
Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Camera Art, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Labyrinth, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Menace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1974
Art Now, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Instructions, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro State University, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
Interventions in Landscape, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
112 Greene Street, New York
Project '74, Kunsthalle Cologne, Cologne
Words and Works, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, The Clocktower, New York

1973
Actualité d'un Bilan, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
American Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1972
420 West Broadway, Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy
Thirteen Artists Chosen for Documenta, Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1971
Art Systems, Center for Art/Communication at the Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires
Beyond Law and Order, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Biennale, Paris
Elements, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Films/Sonsbeek, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
Film, Video, Performance, 98 Greene Street, New York
Pier 18, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Projection '71, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1970
Against Order, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Arte Povera, Concept Art, Land Art, Musee d'Art Moderne, Turin
Body, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Recorded Activities, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Situation/Concepts, Taxis Palais Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria

1969
Art After Plans, Berne Kunsthalle, Berne
Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Earth Art, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca
587-087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
New Media - New Methods, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
955,000, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Op Losse Schtoeven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Place and Progress, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Prospect, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
A Report - Two Oceans Projects, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
When Attitude Becomes Form, Berne Kunsthalle, Berne

1968
Earthworks, Dwan Gallery, New York
Language II-III, Dwan Gallery New York
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Akron
Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo
Art Gallery, Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Brainerd Art Gallery, Potsdam, New York
Centre d'Art Plastique Contemporain, Bordeaux
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy
Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale
F.R.A.C. Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Musée d'Art de d'Histoire, Geneva
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Art, Fort Lauerdale
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
National Gallery of Art, Ottowa
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Phoenix Art Museum, Pheonix
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Stadtischer Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum, Jerusalem
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
University of Alaska, Anchorage
Ville de Thiers, Thiers
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts





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