Born 1949 in Long Island, NY, US
Lives and works in New York and Connecticut
Education
1971
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, B.F.A.
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Almine Rech, London, UK (upcoming)
2024
'Laurie Simmons: Cowboys & Color Interiors', Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL, US
2023
'Laurie Simmons: Autofiction', YoungArts, Miami, FL, US
2022
'Color Pictures/Deep Photos', 56 Henry, New York, NY, US
'Laurie Simmons: Clothes Make the Man II', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, US
2019
'Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, US
2018
'Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera', Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, US
2017
'The Mess and Some New', Salon 94, New York, NY, US
'Clothes Make the Man', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Fake Fashion: Laurie Simmons', Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
2016
'Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House', Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, US
'Laurie Simmons: Two Boys and the Love Doll', Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Garland Hall, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, US
2015
'Laurie Simmons: Two Boys and The Love Doll', Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MI, US
'Laurie Simmons: How We See', The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, US
'Laurie Simmons', The Arts Club, London, UK
2014
'The Fabulous World of Laurie Simmons', Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
2013
'Two Boys', Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, US
'The Love Doll: Days 9-35', Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
'The Love Doll (Geisha): Days 31-36', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, US
'Laurie Simmons', Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011
'The Love Doll: Days 1-30', Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, US
2010
'The Love Doll: Jours 1-17', JGM Galerie, Paris, France
'Picture Perfect: Laurie Simmons, Photographs 1976–78 Building', Print Gallery at the New York Public Library, New York, NY, US
2009
'Laurie Simmons', Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House Photographs 1976-1978', Galeria Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium
2008
'Laurie Simmons', Distrito Cu4tro, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL, US
'Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House', Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY, US
2007
'Laurie Simmons: The Music of Regret and Other Works', The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, US
'Color Coordinated Interiors 1983', Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, US (catalogue)
'Laurie Simmons', Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
'Photographs 1998', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, US
2006
'Laurie Simmons: Long House and The Boxes', Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis, MO, US
'Laurie Simmons', Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, US
'The Music of Regret', Film Premiere, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
'The Music of Regret', European premiere, Tate Modern, London, UK
2005
'Laurie Simmons', Terrazzo Gallery, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, US
'Laurie Simmons: The Long House', Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
'Laurie Simmons: New Photographs', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, US
2004
'The Instant Decorator,' Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, US
2002
Galerie 20/21, Essen, Germany
'Early Photographs 1978-1979', Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, US (catalogue)
2001
'Laurie Simmons', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, US
2000
'Tourism', Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, US
1998
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
'Laurie Simmons', Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US
1997
'Clothes Make the Man', Dorfman Projects, New York, NY, US
'Theoretical Events', Naples, Italy
1996
'Works: 1982-1994', Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
'Food, Clothing, and Shelter', Dorfman Projects, New York, NY, US
'Laurie Simmons: Icons of Feminism', The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, US
1995
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, France
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1994
'Laurie Simmons', Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US
1993
'Laurie Simmons: Photography', Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, US
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, France
1992
Orangerie München, Munich, Germany
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CA, US
1991
'Lying Objects', Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Galerie Carola Mosch, Berlin, Germany
1990
'Laurie Simmons', Galerie Jablonka, Cologne, Germany
1989
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Laurie Simmons', Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US
1988
'Ventriloquism', Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US
1985
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, US
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, US
Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY, US
1984
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart, Germany
International with Monument, New York, NY, US
1983
'Laurie Simmons', Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US
'Ballet Series/Interiors', CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, US (brochure)
1981
Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C., US
'Laurie Simmons', Metro Pictures, New York, NY, US
1979
'Photographs', Artists Space, New York, NY, US
'Photography: Laurie Simmons', MoMA P.S. 1, New York, NY, US
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, US
Selected group exhibitions
2024
'Carroll Dunham & Laurie Simmons', Le Consortium, Dijon, France
'Sport and Beyond', Almine Rech Turenne, Paris, France
2022
'Le Musée sentimental d’Eva Aeppli', The Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
'The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time', The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, US
2021
'Connecting Currents: Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts', Houston, TX, US
'The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US
'New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century', Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, US
2020
Labor: Motherhood and Art in 2020, University of Art Museum, New Mexico State University, NM, US
NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE - 2020 CE), LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, US
Look at Me, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
2019
'About 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, Canada
Museum of Modern Art, Reopening Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
2018
'Women House', National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., US
2017
'Woman with a Camera', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
'Once Upon a Time . . . The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film', The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA, US
2014
'Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See', Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
'Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See', Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, US
2013
'All You Need is Love: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America', Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, US
2012
'This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s', The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, US
2011
'Pictures by Women: A History of Moderns Photography', Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
'The Deconstructive Impulse: Woman Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992', Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, NY, US
2010
'Off The Wall: Part 1- 30 Performative Actions', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
Gwangju Biennale 2010, Gwangju, Korea
2009
'The Pictures Generation, 1974 – 1984', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, US
'Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography', National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., US
2008
'The Puppet Show', Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US
'Espèces d’espace: Les Années 1980, Première Partie (The Eighties, First Part)', Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
2007
'Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Gallery', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2000
'Laurie Simmons & Peter Wheelwright: Kaleidoscope House', Deitch Projects, New York, NY, US
Public Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York, NY, US
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, US
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, US
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
New York Public Library, NY, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, US
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, US
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, US
Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg, Germany
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
