Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker currently working in New York and Northwestern Connecticut. Since the mid1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.

Laurie Simmons was born in 1949 on Long Island, New York, the daughter of Dorothy Dottie, a housewife, and Samuel Ira Sam Simmons, a dentist. She was raised in a Jewish community. She received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1971. Simmons lives and works in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham, and their two daughters, Lena and Grace.

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