Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons (born October 3, 1949, in Long Island, New York) is an artist and photographer currently working in New York.Since the mid 1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. By the early 1980's Simmons was at the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of the media as subject began a new dialogue in contemporary art. In 2006, Simmons made her first film "The Music of Regret," a mini musical in three acts which premiered at MoMA and has since screened at museums and festivals worldwide including the Walker Art Center, the Hammer Museum, the Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, the Kunst Film Biennale in Cologne, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.

Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC; the Hara Museum in Tokyo; the Ellipse Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, among others.

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PBS: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/simmons/index.html

Guggenheim Museum: http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_228_0.html

Museum of Modern Art: http://moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7015&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1

Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/pcgn/ho_2004.246.htm

The New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE1DD103AF937A15752C1A9669C8B63&scp=1&sq=laurie%20simmons&st=cse

The New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E7D7143DF934A35755C0A9649C8B63&scp=3&sq=laurie%20simmons&st=cse

The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/arts/design/20wart.html?_r=1&scp=19&sq=laurie%20simmons&st=cse&oref=slogin

“Laurie Simmons: Color Coordinated Interiors 1983,” New York: Skarstedt Gallery, 2007.

Linkler, Kate. “Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying,” Aperture Foundation, 2005

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