Laurie Simmons (b. New York City) is an American artist best known for her photographic and film work. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated and formalist fields of painting and sculpture. Simmons's elaborately constructed images employ psychologically charged human proxies—dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins, props, miniatures and interiors—and also depict people as dolls. Often noted for its humor and pathos, her art explores boundaries such as between artifice and truth or private and public, while raising questions about the construction of identity, tropes of prosperity, consumerism and domesticity, and practices of self-presentation and image-making.

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Education
Tyler School of Art, BFA

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Selected Exhibitions
Cowboys & Color Interiors, Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL (2024)
491: Interiors, MoMA Collection Gallery, New York, NY (2022-2023)
Color Pictures/Deep Photos 2007 - 2022, 56 Henry, New York, NY(2022-2023)