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Shirin Neshat Biography
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1957 |
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Born in Qazvin, Iran
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Recipient of a Sponsored Project Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
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1992 |
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Artist in Residence, Henry Street Settlement, New York
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1995 |
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Recipient of a Mid-Atlantic Photography Fellowship
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1995 |
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Recipient of an Art Matters Grant
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1996 |
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Recipient of a New York Foundation for Arts Photography Fellowship
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1996 |
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Recipient of a grant from Tiffany Foundation
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1999 |
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First International Prize, 48th Venice Biennale
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1999 |
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Prize for Best Project, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
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2000 |
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CalArts, Alpert Award in the Arts, Pasadena, CA
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2000 |
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Visual Art Award, “Herald Angel," Edinburgh International Festival
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2000 |
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Grand Prix, Kwangju Biennale, Seoul, Korea
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2001 |
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Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
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2002 |
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Infinity Award for Visual Art, International Center for Photography, New York
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2003 |
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Honoree at The First Annual Risk Takers in the Arts
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2003 |
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Celebration, given by The Sundance Institute, New York
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2003 |
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ZeroOne Award, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
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2003 |
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Fine Art Prize, Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany
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2005 |
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Award, Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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“Un Certain Etat du Monde?” Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
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2008
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“Shirin Neshat,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
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2008
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“Shirin Neshat: New Works,” Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
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2008
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“Women Without Men,” ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
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2008
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“Me Ophelia,” The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
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2008
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“Stereotypes,” The Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
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2008
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“Wanderers in Contemporary Video Art,” Museo Civico, Commune di Siena, Siena, Italy
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2007
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“Foto.Kunst,” Essl Museum, Vienna
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2007
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"Kunst Film Biennale," Köln
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2007
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"Ten Years," Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
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2007
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"So Close / So Far Away," BE-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem
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2007
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"Weltempfänger," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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2007
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“Shirin Neshat,” Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
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2006
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“Shirin Neshat,” Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
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2006
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“Shirin Neshat,” Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (solo)
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2006
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”Shirin Neshat: The Last Word,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (solo)
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2006
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“Shirin Neshat,” Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
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2006
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"Kapital," Kent Gallery, New York
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2006
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"Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection," Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki
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2006
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"A Selected State," emily Tsingou gallery, London, England
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2006
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"Reverence," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
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2005
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“Zarin,” Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
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2005
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Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin (solo)
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2005
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Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Leon, Spain (solo)
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2005
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Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (solo)
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2005
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“Remapped Realities,” Eyebeam, New York
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2005
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“Some Stories,” Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
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2005
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“Figure It Out,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
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2004
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Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand (solo)
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2004
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“Non Toccare La Donna Bianca:, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin
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2004
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“In Bed”, Toyota Art Museum, Japan
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2004
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“From Bonifatius to Beuys,” Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
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2004
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“The Parallell World of Marrakech,” Lille 2004, France
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2003
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“Tooba” Asia Society Museum, New York (solo)
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2003
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Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
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2003
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Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
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2003
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Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (solo)
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2003
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“ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,: International Center of Photography, New York
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2003
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“Bill Viola and Shirin Neshat,” The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
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2003
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“Fantasies of the Harem and the New Sherezades," Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona
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2003
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"The Natural Cosmos," Staadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
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2002
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Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (solo)
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2002
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Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (solo)
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2002
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Banco di Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (solo)
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2002
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Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (solo)
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2002
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"Diversions," Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore
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2002
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"Synopsis II-Theologies,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
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2002
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"Alter Ego,” Jean-Gabriel Mitterand Galerie, Paris
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2002
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"Moving Pictures," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
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2001
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“Galerie Farschou, 1986-2001,” Galeri Farschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
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2001
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“Fervor,” Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden
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2001
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"New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection,” Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
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2001
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Biennial de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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2001
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Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Miami Art Museum (solo)
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2001
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Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
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2001
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Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
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2000
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Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
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2000
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Pitti Discovery, Florence, Italy (solo)
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2000
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Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
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2000
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Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy (solo)
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2000
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Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio (solo)
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2000
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"Corpo Chimico,” Cá di Fra, Milan, Italy
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2000
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"Photography Now: An International Survey of Contemporary Photography," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Lousiiana
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2000
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"Erresitentziak/Resistencias," Koldo Mitxelena, Donostia-San Sebastian
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2000
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"La Beauté in Avignon," Avignon, France
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1999
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"Heaven: An Exhibition That Will Break Your Heart," Tate Gallery Liverpool, England
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1999
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"Zeitwenden: Rückblick und Ausblick," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
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1999
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"Project 70: Shirin Neshat, Simon Patterson, Xu Bing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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1999
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"Voiceovers," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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1999
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Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (solo)
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1999
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Art Institute of Chicago (solo)
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1999
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D’Amelio Terras, New York (solo)
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1999
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Henie Onstad Artsentre, Oslo, Norway (solo)
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1998
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Tate Gallery, London, England (solo)
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1998
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Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (solo)
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1998
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Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln (solo)
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1998
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"Unfinished History” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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1998
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"In The Detail” Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
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1997
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"Triple X: Contemporary Investigating Arts," International Art Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
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1997
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"Der Rest der Welt” Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
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1997
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"International Art Festival City of Medellin," Medellin, Columbia
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1997
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Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovania (solo)
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1997
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Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (solo)
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1997
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Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Holland (solo)
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1996
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Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland (solo)
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1996
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Marco Noire Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy (solo)
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1996
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"Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Sydney Biennial” Australia
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1996
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"Le Masque et le Miroir” Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
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1995
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"Orientation," USA participation, Istanbul Biennial 95, Turkey
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1995
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"Transculture” Venice Biennial 95, Venice
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1995
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Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (solo)
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1994
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"Three New Photographers," Haines Gallery, San Francisco
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1994
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"Revolving Histories,” SF Camerawork, San Francisco
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1994
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"Beyond the Borders: Art By Recent Immigrants,”The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
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1993
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"The Office: History, Fantasy and Irregular Protocols," site-specific Installations in an abandoned Wall Street office building, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York
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1993
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Franklin Furnace, New York (solo)
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1990
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"Fever" Exit Art Gallery, New York
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Multi Media Performance
2003 “Logic of the Birds,” Ortigia Festival, Syracuse, Siclily, July 25 – 27
2002 "Logic of the Birds,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June 20-23
2002 "Logic of the Birds," Lincoln Center, New York, July 12-13
2002 "Logic of the Birds," ArtAngel, London, November 7-17
2001 “Logic of the Birds (Phase One),” The Kitchen, New York
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Film Screenings
2004 Brooklyn Art Museum
2004 Museum of Modern Art, New York
2004 Melbourne Arts Festival
2004 Santa Barbara Film festival
2004 Nemo Film Festival, Paris
2004 Unesco Headquarter, Paris
2003 Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City
2003 Smithsonian Institution, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington D.C.
2003 UCLA Film and Television Archive, Los Angeles
2003 Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
2003 Tribeca Film Festival, New York
2003 Athens International Film Festival
2003 Edinburgh International Film festival
2003 Kunst Film Biennale, Cologne
2002 Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
2002 Dans Le Cadre Du Festival International De Films De Fribourg, Centre D'Art
2002 Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, France
2002 "Outer & Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts/Part Two," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
2002 Forum des Images, Paris
2002 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Athens, Greece
2002 Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001 Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago
2001 San Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2001 London Iranian Film Festival, London
2001 Virginia Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
2001 Pacific Film Archive Festival, Oakland, CA
2000 Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO
2000 Locamo Film Festival, Switzerland
2000 Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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| Literature |
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2008
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Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, 2008
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2008
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Denken in Bildern, Hatje Cantz and Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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2008
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Art Editions 6, Edition Schellmann, New York, 2008
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2008
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Prospect.1New Orleans, Picturebox, Brooklyn, 2008
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2008
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Stations: 100 Masterpieces of Contemporary Art, DuMont Buchverlag, Köln, 2008
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2008
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Sale, Teel and Claudia Betti, Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, Thomson Wadsworth: USA, 2008
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2008
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Jensen, Mona, Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men, Narayana Press and the ARoS Kunstmuseum, 2008
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2008
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Parts and the Whole, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, 2008
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2008
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Volume 2 of the MUSAC Collection, MUSAC, 2008
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2008
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Black and White, Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, 2008
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2008
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Erranti / Wanderers, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2008
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2008
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Rodemburg, Katja, IK, Ophelia, d’Jonge Hond, 2008
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2006
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“Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking”, New Yorker, April 17, 2006, pg. 13
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2006
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Green, Tyler, “MOMA Keeps the Walls Clean; Islamic Show Sans Politics”, The New York Observer, April 3, 2006
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2006
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The Conscious Reader, Tenth Edition, Pearson Education Inc, New York, pp.188-9.
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2005
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Paparoni, Demetrio, L’arte contemporanea e il suo metodo, Grafica Veneta S.p.A. di Trebaseleghe. Venice. 2005
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2005
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Ravenal, John, “Shirin Neshat: Double Vision” in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism, edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 447-458.
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2005
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Art 2: Practice, eds. Margaret Marsh, Michelle Watts, Craig Malyon, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 256.
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2004
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Thorson, Alice, “Women resisting repression,” The Kansas City Star, Dec. 19, 2004.
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2004
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McNamara, TJ. “Raw Power from the Shadows.” New Zealand Harold, September 1st.
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2004
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Brownson, Ron. Through the Eyes of Shirin Neshat. Auckland Art Gallery, August 2004.
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2003
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Aghdashloo, Aydeen. Cultural Criticism: Conversations on Art. Published by Fanoos, Tehran, Iran. (Chapter on Shirin Neshat, pp. 193-201).
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2003
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Riveroli, Julieta. “Atribuye Censura a Poder Expresivo.” Reforma, Mexico, June 5, 2003.
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2003
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Vitali, Valentina. “Between Art and Cinema: A Conversation with Shirin Neshat.” N Paradoxa. Volume 12. 2003, pp. 33 43.
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2002
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Price, Stuart. “Don’t Miss.” The Independent, London. November 1, 2002.
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2002
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Macdonald, Susan. “Artist in search of truth after the revolution.” The Times. October 26, 2002, pp. 8-9 and section cover.
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2002
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Art Tomorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith, Paris 2002
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2001
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Great Themes in Art, John Walford, Prentice Hall.
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2001
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Nejadmehr, Rasoul, “Den kvinnliga blickens hemlighet (“The Secret of the Female Gaze”),” Divan, 1-2.
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2001
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Root, Deborah, “The Ambivalent Yearnings of Shirin Neshat,” Prefix Photo, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 48-61.
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2000
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Malik, Amna, “The Poetics of the Veil,” Portfolio, issue #32.
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2000
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Schjeldahl, Peter, “Pragmatic Hedonism,” The New Yorker, April 3.
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2000
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Shirin Neshat: Two Installations, Bill Horrigan, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
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1999
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Cream. Contemporary Art in Culture, New York, Phaidon Press.
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1999
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Miller, Paul, “Motion Picture: Shirin Neshat’s Turbulent,” Parkett, issue #54.
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1999
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Neel, Alex, “Shirin Neshat: Turbulent,” Time Out New York, January 7.
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1998
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Geneva Anderson, “Fundamentale Gesichtspunkte: Ein Gesprach mit Shirin Neshat,” Neue Bildende Kunst.
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1998
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Goodman, Jonathan, “Poetic Justice: Shirin Neshat Defends the Faith,” World Art, issue #16.
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1997
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Kleinschmidt, Klaus, “Shirin Neshat,” Spiegel Das KulturMagazin EXTRA Border/Lines, Toronto, Canada, February
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1997
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Paldi, Livia, “Allah asszonyai,” interview, Budapest, Hungary, Balkon, June.
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1997
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Shirin Neshat, Marco Noire Contemporary Art, solo exhibition catalogue, Turin, Italy.
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1996
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Echoes: Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions, edited by Francesco Bonami, published by The Monacelli Press, New York.
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1996
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Lemme, Maria Tiziana, “Femminismo e chador, le donne di Allah,” Naples, Italy, Il Mattino, February.
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1996
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Smith, Roberta, “In Tomblike Vaults, the Future Flickers and Hums,” The New York Times, August 9.
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1995
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Zaya, Octavio, “Neshat: Quiero contarel complejo mundo de la mujer musulmana,” Spain, DIARIO 16.
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1995
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Turner, Jonathan, “Biennial Blues,” Artnews, Summer
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1995
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Orientation: 4th International Istanbul Biennial Transculture, Biennial of Venice, exhibition catalogue, Venice, Italy.
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1994
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Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants, exhibition catalogue, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.
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1994
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Zaya, Octavio, “Shirin Neshat and the Women of Allah,” interview, France, Purple Prose #7.
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1994
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Wallach, Amei, “Rejecting The Melting Pot: My Canvas, My Self, Shirin Neshat,” New York Newsday.
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1993
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Bobby, Kate, “Exploring the Secrets of the Veil,” interview, New Directions For Women.
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