Laurie Simmons (born in New York City, 1949) is an American artist known for psychologically charged, constructed photographs and films using dolls, dummies, props, miniatures, interiors, and live models. A key figure of The Pictures Generation, she emerged in the late 1970s alongside women challenging male-dominated formalism. Her work, marked by humor and pathos, examines artifice and truth, public and private life, and the formation of identity amid consumerism, domesticity, and image-making.
