# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurie-simmons
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:28.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurie-simmons"
name: "Laurie Simmons"
slug: "laurie-simmons"
description: "Laurie Simmons is an American photographer and filmmaker. Art historians consider her a key figure of The Pictures Generation and a group of late-1970s women artists that emerged as a counterpoint to the male-dominated and formalist fields of painting and sculpture. The group introduced new approaches to photography, such as staged setups, narrative, and appropriations of pop culture and everyday objects that pushed the medium toward the center of contemporary art. Simmons's elaborately constructed images employ psychologically charged human proxies—dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins, props, miniatures and interiors—and also depict people as dolls. Often noted for its humor and pathos, her art explores boundaries such as between artifice and truth or private and public, while raising questions about the construction of identity, tropes of prosperity, consumerism and domesticity, and practices of self-presentation and image-making. In a review of Simmons's 2019 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, critic Steve Johnson wrote, \"Collectively—and with a sly but barbed sense of humor—[her works] challenge you to think about what, if anything, is real: in our gender roles, and our cultural assumptions, and our perceptions of others.\""
tagline: "American artist, photographer and filmmaker (born 1949)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/60/Laurie_Simmons_FirstBathroomWomanKneeling_1978.jpg/330px-Laurie_Simmons_FirstBathroomWomanKneeling_1978.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1949-10-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.995578666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2419914/"
    handle:    "nm2419914"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lauriesimmons.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Simmons"
    title: "Laurie Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لوري سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "لورى سيمونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Simmons"
    title: "Laurie Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Simmons"
    title: "Laurie Simmons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3219659"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139147"
    title: "Laurie Simmons"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump