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Learn about Laurie Simmons, a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists. Explore her photographic and film work that challenges the boundaries of artifice, truth, identity and culture.
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Color Pictures/Deep Photos, 56 Henry, New York, NYLaurie Simmons: Clothes Make the Man II, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, COLe Musée sentimental d’Eva Aeppli, The Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, FranceThe Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NYConnecting Currents: Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXThe Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MNNew Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CALabor: Motherhood and Art in 2020, University of Art Museum, New Mexico State University, NMNOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE - 2020 CE), LACMA, Los Angeles, CALook at Me, MCA Chicago, Chicago, ILLaurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago ILAbout Face/Volte Face: Photographs by Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and Rachel Harrison from the collection of Carol and David Appel, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CAMuseum of Modern Art, Reopening Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NYLaurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TXWomen House, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.The Mess and Some New, Salon 94, New York, NYWoman with a Camera, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, ILClothes Make the Man, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NYFake Fashion: Laurie Simmons, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, UKLaurie Simmons: In and Around the House, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MALaurie Simmons: Two Boys and the Love Doll, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, ALLaurie Simmons: Two Boys and The Love Doll, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MILaurie Simmons: How We See, The Jewish Museum, New York, NYLaurie Simmons, The Arts Club, London, UKKigurumi, Dollers and How We See, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UKThe Fabulous World of Laurie Simmons, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, DEKigurumi, Dollers and How We See, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NYTwo Boys, Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York, NYAll You Need is Love: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JapanThe Love Doll: Days 9-35, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, JapanColor Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WILaurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist who creates images with intensely psychological subtexts and nonlinear narratives. Learn about her career, exhibitions, films, and collections of her work since the mid-70s.
Laurie Simmons is an American artist who creates photographs of objects with human qualities and dolls with artificial identities. Explore her works, exhibitions, audio, publications, and media at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Laurie Simmons. Artwork Films Projects Text & Publications Biography Information. Light Room, 1979. Yellow Smoking Room, 1983. Woman Reading in Living Room, 1981. Orange Hair/Snow/Close Up, 2014.
Learn about Laurie Simmons, who explores the image and expectations of women in the post-war United States through photographs and films featuring dolls and the domestic sphere. See examples of her work, such as Sink/Ivy Wallpaper, Untitled (Woman Standing on Head), and Walking Gun.
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Laurie Simmons is a contemporary artist who creates staged scenes using dolls and miniature objects. She is known for her Walking Objects series and her commentary on photographic realism and American culture.
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A renowned American artist, photographer, and filmmaker, Simmons has a long history of making art that subverts expectations: from the trappings of gender and domesticity to the promise of advertising, and the superficiality of its fruits.
