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Dennis Kardon was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1950. He lives and works in New York. He is a graduate of , took part in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and was a student of and Al Held. Since the 1970s, he has widely exhibited in the United States and beyond, and his work is part of public collections such as the in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum, the New Museum, the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C., the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Strange Waters is Dennis Kardon’s first exhibition in the United Kingdom.