Brian Mckee
     Michael Wesely
     Lina Kim
     Dionisio González
     Laurie Simmons
     Hiroshi Sugimoto
     Brian Mckee
     Michael Wesely
     Lina Kim
     Dionisio González 1
     Dionisio González 2
     Laurie Simmons
     Hiroshi Sugimoto
Laurie Simmons

1949 Born in Long Island, New York
1971 B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
Lives in New York City

Solo exhibition

2011
"The Love Doll: Days 1-30¡± Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, USA
"The Love Doll: Days 1-30" WILKINSON Gallery, London, England

2009
¡°Laurie Simmons¡± Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, May 23 - June 20

2008-2009
¡°Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House Photographs 1976-1978,¡± Galeria Erna Hecey, Brussels, 21 December 2008 - 14 February 2009

2008
¡°Laurie Simmons,¡± Distrito Cu4tro, Art Basel Miami Beach, 6 December - 9 December
¡°Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House,¡± Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, New York 17 May - 28 June.

2007
¡°Photographs 1998,¡± Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, 27 July - 4 September.
¡°Laurie Simmons: The Music of Regret and Other Works,¡± The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, 26 May - 12 August 2007.
¡°Color Coordinated Interiors,¡± Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, September - October 2007 (catalogue)
¡°Laurie Simmons,¡± Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, October - November 2007.

2006
Laurie Simmons: Long House and The Boxes,¡± Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis, Missouri, 8 April - 10 June 2006
¡°Laurie Simmons,¡± Sperone Westwater, New York, 27 April - 30 June 2006
¡°The Music of Regret,¡± Film Premiere, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 24 & 29 May 2006.
¡°The Music of Regret,¡± European Premiere, Tate Modern, London, UK, 1 July 2006.

2005
Sperone Westwater, New York, ¡°Laurie Simmons¡±
Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain, "Laurie Simmons: The Long House"
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, "Laurie Simmons: New Photographs"

2004
Sperone Westwater, New York, "The Instant Decorator"

2002
Galerie 20/21, Essen, Germany.
"Early Photographs 1978-1979," Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.

2001
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.

2000
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.
"Laurie Simmons & Peter Wheelwright: Kaleidoscope House," Deitch Projects, New York.

1998
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.
Metro Pictures, New York.
Dorfman Projects, New York.

1997
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland. (catalogue)
"Clothes Make the Man," Dorfman Projects, New York.
Theoretical Events, Naples, Italy.

1996
"Works: 1982-1994," Modernism Gallery, San Francisco.
"Laurie Simmons: Icons of Feminism," The Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia.

1995
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris.
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.

1994
Metro Pictures, New York.

1993
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta (two-person exhibition with Cindy Sherman).
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (two-person exhibition with Sarah Charlesworth).

1992
Orangerie Mu"nchen, Munich.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles.
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.

1991
Metro Pictures, New York.
Galerie Carola Mosch, Berlin.

1990
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. (catalogue)
Galerie Jablonka, Cologne.

1989
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles.
Galerie Jablonka, Cologne. (catalogue)
Metro Pictures, New York.

1988
Metro Pictures, New York.

1987
"Water Ballet/Family Collision," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. (catalogue)

1985
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia.
Josh Baer Gallery, New York.

1984
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart.
International with Monument, New York.

1983
Metro Pictures, New York.
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

1981
Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Metro Pictures, New York.

1979
Artists Space, New York.
P.S. 1, New York.
University of Rhode Island, Kingston.


Group exhibition

2009
"Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 17 October - 25 January 2009 (catalogue)
¡°Surveillance from the Doll House,¡± Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, 15 April - 23 May 2009
¡°Better History,¡± The America Standard Gallery, New York, 12 March - 11 April 2009
¡°Talk Dirty to Me,¡± Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, 26 February - 28 March 2009
¡°The Glamour Project,¡± Lehmann Maupin, New York, 24 February - 21 March 2009
¡°The Pictures Generation, 1974 - 1984,¡± The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 20 April - 2 August 2009 (catalogue)

2008-2009
¡°The Puppet Show,¡± Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 18 January - 30 March 2008; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, 16 May - 9 August 2008; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 5 September - 23 November 2008; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 17 January - 12 April 2009; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 16 May - 13 September 2009
¡°Espe`ces d¡¯espace: Les Anne'es 1980, Premie`re Partie (The Eighties, First Part)¡± Magasin Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 12 October 2008 - 4 January 2009 (catalogue)

2008
¡°Listen Darling¡¦The World is Yours,¡± The Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Portugal, 11 October - December 2008.
¡°Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora]¡± curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Nessia Leonzini for the Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 30 July - 10 May 2008

2007-2008
¡°inFashion,¡± Cook Fine Art New York, New York, 11 December 2007 - 30 January 2008

2007
¡°Season¡¯s Greetings: Contemporary Photography,¡± du Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland; 3 December 2007 - 27 January 2008.
¡°The Boxes,¡± Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain, 17 October - 23 November 2007.
¡°Contemporary + Cutting Edge: Pleasure of Collecting, Part III,¡± Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 29 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
¡°Brasil Des Focos,¡± Centro Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 30 June - 16 September, 2007.
"Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Gallery," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, August 1-November 11, 2007.
¡°Conceptual Photography,¡± Zwirner & Wirth, New York, 3 May - 23 June 2007.
¡°French Kiss,¡± Curated by Rob Wynne, JGM Galerie, Paris, France, 25 May - 30 June 2007.
¡°Dolls,¡± Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milan, 1 February - 2 April 2007.

2006
¡°Woman Only! In Their Studios,¡± Museum of Texas Tech University, 5 February - 16 April 2006; Polk Museum of Art, 30 July - 15 October 2006; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 4 February - 15 April 2007; Avampato Discovery Museum, Inc., 17 June - 26 August 2007; Muskegon Museum of Art, 13 September - 18 November 2007; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 16 February - 30 March 2008; Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, 20 April - 29 June 2008.
¡°Women in the Bedroom,¡± Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, 16 February - 25 March 2006.
¡°New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music and Video¡± Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 13 July - 10 September 2006.
¡°The Collectibles,¡± The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 7 April - 11 June 2006

2005
¡°Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection,¡± The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 4 February - 25 April, 2005 (catalogue).
¡°Steven Scott Collects: Donations and Promised Gifts to the Permanent Collection,¡± National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., 10 June - 25 September 2005.

2004
¡°Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque,¡± SITE Santa Fe Fifth International Biennial, 18 July 2004 - 9 January 2005
¡°East Village USA,¡± New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, December 9, 2004 - March 19, 2005 (catalogue).
¡°Where?¡± Clifford Chance, 16 June-15 September, 2004

2003
¡°Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982,¡± Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; 12 October, 2003 - 4 January, 2004; The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 8 February - 9 May, 2004; Museo de Arte Contempora'nea de Vigo, Spain, 28 May - 19 September, 2004; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, 26 November, 2004 - 13 February, 2005. (catalogue) "Constructed Realities: Contemporary Photography," Orlando Museum of Art.

"Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art," at the New York State Museum in Albany.
¡°Designs for Living,¡± Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

2002
"Enough About Me," curated by Deborah Kass, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York.
"A Doll's House," Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway.
"Sweet Tooth," curated by Sarah Tanguy for COPIA, The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa California.

2001
"Moving," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

2000
"Who's That Girl," Sandra Gering Gallery, New York.
"Staged: Constructions of Reality in Contemporary Photography," Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York.
"Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"Limited and Unlimited Editions," Artists Space (benefit exhibition), New York.
"S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds," The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York.
"Open Ends, 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from 1960," The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
"ICP Permanent Collection," International Center of Photography, New York.
"Laurie Simmons & Peter Wheelwright: Kaleidoscope House," Deitch Projects, New York.
"The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1 September - 2 January 2001 (catalogue)
"Almost Warm & Fuzzy," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Fundacio "La caixa", Barcelona, Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee; Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
"Toys," Kagan Martos Gallery, New York.

1999
"Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 9 January - 20 April 1999(catalogue).
"The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photography", Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 12 March - 21 May 1999.
"American Century," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"Almost Warm & Fuzzy," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa.
"Der Anagrammatische Ko"rper," Jahresmuseum, Mu"rzzuschlag, Austria; ZKM Medientheater, Karlsruhe.

1998
"Bathroom," Thomas Healy Gallery, New York.
"Little Worlds," Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, Saskatchewan.
"Gesichter und Dinge," Neue Gesellschaft fu"r bildende Kunst E.V., Berlin, Germany.
"The New Surrealism," Pamela Auchincloss, New York.

1997
"Making it Real," Organized by ICI, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 19 January 1997 - 15 November 1998 (catalogue).
"Metamorphosis," Claudia Gian Ferrati Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
"Now on View," Metro Pictures.
"Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975-Now," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 8 April - 30 May 1998.
"Heaven: Private View," P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, 26 October - 31 January 1998
"Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century," The Saint Louis Art Museum, 23 September - 11 January 1998 (catalogue).
"Europa USA," Palazzo Sterio Magno Cefalu`, Sicily.

1996
"Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection," in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen.
Athens School of Fine Arts "the factory", Athens, Greece.
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
"Altered and Irrational," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"Personal/Impersonal," Gracie Mansion/Fred Dorfman Projects, New York.
"Art At Home: Ideal Standard Life," Spiral Garden, Tokyo.
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
"Art 27 '96, Basel International Art Fair," Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris.
"Printemps de Cahors: Photographie & Visuels," Paris.
Art Dynamics Inc., Tokyo.
Metro Pictures, New York.
"Radical Images," 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography 1996, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz and Camera Austria in the Kunsthalle Szombathely (catalogue).
"Doll House," Illinois State University.
"The Romper Room," Thread Waxing Space, New York, 12 November - 21 December 1996.
"Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975-Now," Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, 1 November - 7 December 1996.
"A/drift," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, 20 October - 5 January.
Basilico Fine Arts, New York.

1995
"The Message is the Medium: Issues of Representation in Modern Technologies," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York.
"Actual Photos" (in collaboration with Allan McCollum), Metro Pictures, New York; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Kunstraum Mu"nchen, Germany.
"Pulp Fact," The Photographers' Gallery, London.
"Mini Mundus," White Columns, New York.
"Die Muse?: Transforming the Image of Women in Contemporary Art," in conjunction with Salzburger Festival, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris (catalogue).
"Fact, Fiction and Truth: Contemporary Portraits," Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, Bronx (exhibition brochure).
"Is It Art?: Transgressions in Contemporary Art," curated by Linda Weintraub; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Katonah Museum of Art, New York (exhibition brochure).
S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto.
Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
"The Monster Show," curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami. (catalogue)
"Hearth & Home," Champion International Corporation.
"Playtime: Artists and Toys," Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut (catalogue).
"Passions Privee," Musee' d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
"Being Human," Rabb Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

1994
"The Figure," The Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York.
Metro Pictures, New York.
"Labor and Leisure," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
"Genres in Painting," Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands (catalogue).
"Big Shots/Little Shots," Transamerica Corporation, San Francisco.
"Stilled Pictures-Still Life," Photography Gallery, Fine Arts Center.
Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston.
"Toys/Art/Us," Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York.
"Les Enfants Terribles," Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona.

1993
"Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons," Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (catalogue).
"Commodity Image," International Center for Photography, New York.
"Photoplay," Center for Fine Arts, Miami (catalogue).
"The Uncanny," Sonsbeek '93, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Netherlands (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
"Vivid. Intense Images by American Photographers," Raab Galerie, Berlin and London; Galeria Gian Ferrari, Milan.
"Dolls in Contemporary Art. A Metaphor of Personal Identity," Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Network," Kunsternes Hus, Oslo.

1992
"The Order of Things: Toward a Politic of Still Life," Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Winsconsin.
"American Art of the 80's," Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy. (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
"More Than One Photography," Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue).
"Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties," ICA, Philadelphia; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
"Transvoices," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

1991
"1991 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue).
"Anni Novanta," Galleria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
"Sguardo di Medusa," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
"Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
"American Art of the 80s," Palazzo delle Albere, Trent, Italy (catalogue).
"The Surrogate Figure: Intercepted Identities in Contemporary Photography," The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York; Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Rosa Esman Gallery, New York (catalogue).

1990
"Viewpoints Towards the 90's: Three Artists From Metro Pictures."
Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo (catalogue).
"The Indomitable Spirit," curated by Marvin Heifferman, The International Center of Photography, Midtown branch, New York (catalogue).
"To Be and Not to Be," Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (catalogue).
"The Decade Show," The Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art in conjunction with the New Museum and the Studio Museum of Harlem, New York (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.
"Modern Detour," Vienna Secession, Vienna.
"Art That Happens to be Photography," Texas Gallery, Houston.

1989
"Conspicuous Display," Stedman Art Gallery, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers-Camden campus.
"Fictive Strategies," The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey
"Surrogate Selves," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue).
"International Camera," Salama-Caro Gallery, London.
"Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85," Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (catalogue).
"The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980's," Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (catalogue).
"Through A Glass Darkly," University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.
"Shifting Focus: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Women's Photography," Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue).
"A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue).
"Laurie Simmons, Allan McCollum" (two-person exhibition), Urbi et Orbi Galerie, Paris.
"Sarah Charlesworth, Laurie Simmons" (two-person exhibition), Editions Ilene Kurz New York.
Greenberg Wilson, New York.
"The Desire of the Museum," Whitney Museum of American Art at Federal.
Reserve Plaza, New York. (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
"Image World: Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue).
"Ku"nstlerische Fotografie der 70er und 80er," Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart.

1988
"Media Post Media," Scott Hansen Gallery, New York (catalogue).
"Female (Re)production," White Columns, New York.
"Towards the Photograph as a Vulgar Document," Optica Gallery, Montreal.
"MATRIS," Malmo Kuntshall, Sweden (catalogue).
Galerie Jablonka, Cologne.
"Swimmers," Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York.
"Photography on the Edge," Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Fabricated Photographs," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
"Works on Photographic Paper," Paul Kasmin, New York
"Life Like," Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
"Concept et Imagination" (recent work from the photographic collection of the Stedelijk Museum), L'Institut Neerlandais, Paris.
Metro Pictures, New York.

1987
"On Paper," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
"Past/Imperfect: Eric Fischl, Vernon Fisher, Laurie Simmons," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Knight Gallery/Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (catalogue).
"Art Against AIDS," Metro Pictures, New York.
"This is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986," The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia (catalogue).
"Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946," Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Queens Museum, Flushing, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa (catalogue).
"The New Who's Who," Hoffman Borman Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Paint/Film," Bess Cutler Gallery, New York.
"Photographic Work from 1974-1987," Douglas Drake Gallery, New York.
"Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective," Moderna Museet, Stockholm (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
"Contemporary Photographic Portraiture," ELAC, Ville de Lyon (catalogue).
"Midtown Review," ICP/Midtown, New York.
"Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography," Baltimore Museum of Art.

1986
Metro Pictures, New York.
"The Real Big Picture," Queens Museum, New York.
"Intervis," Rice University, Houston, Texas.
"Photographic Fiction," The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut (catalogue).
"Last Dance: Glamour, Death and Entertainment," The Palladium, New York.
Metro Pictures, New York.
"La Magie de l'Image," Muse'e d'art Contemporain de Montreal Gallery, London, Canada. (catalogue).
"Origins, Originality + Beyond," Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (catalogue).
"Art & Advertising: Commercial Photography by Artists," ICP, New York.
"The Fashionable Image: Unconventional Fashion Photography," The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina (catalogue).
"Remembrances of Things Past," Long Beach Museum of Art, California (catalogue).
"Fact Fiction to Fantasy: The Image of Woman in 20th Century Photography," Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York.

1985
"Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, James Welling," Metro Pictures, New York.
"Actual Photos" (in collaboration with Allan McCollum), Nature Morte, New York; David Heath Gallery, Atlanta; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Texas Gallery, Houston. "The Nude in Photography," Mu"nchner Stadtmuseum, Munich.
"1985 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue).
"The Seduction Show," White Columns, New York.
"Rounding Up the Usual Suspects," Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta.
"Between Here and Nowhere," Orchard Gallery, London.
"The Parodic Power of Popular Imagery," Queensborough Community Gallery, New York; Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania.
"Infotainment," Texas Gallery, Houston; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
"Swimmers," Pace/McGill, New York.
"Illuminating Color: Four Approaches in Contemporary Painting and Photography," Pratt Institute Gallery, New York.
"Persona Non Grata," Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York.
"Big Portraits," Jeffrey Hoffeld Gallery, New York.
"Cult and Decorum," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
International with Monument, New York.
"The Public Art Show," Nexus Gallery, Atlanta (catalogue).
"Subjects and Subject Matter," London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada. (catalogue)
"Correspondences: New York Art Now," Laforet Museum, Tokyo; Tochigi.
Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; Tazaki Hall Media, Kobe.
"Thought Objects" Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York.
"Vicky Alexander, Silvia Kolbowski, Frank Majore, Jeffrey Pittu, Laurie Simmons," 303 Gallery, New York.
"Sao Paolo Biennial," Sao Paolo, Brazil.

1984
"Masking/Unmasking: Aspects of Post-Modernist Photography," The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California.
"Family of Man," P.S. 1, New York.
"Still Life with Transaction," International with Monument, New York.
"Visions of Childhood: A Contemporary Iconography," Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York.
"Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art (catalogue).
"A Decade of New Art," Artists Space, New York (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
"...And the Livin' Is Easy," Visual Arts Museum, New York.
"The International Show," Baskerville-Watson Gallery, New York.
"Women of Influence," Amerika Haus Berlin, Berlin (catalogue).
"Con Rumore," Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam.
"Disarming Images," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman; New York State Museum, Albany; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, New York; Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.
"Between Here and Nowhere," Riverside Studios, London (catalogue).
"Marcus Leatherdale, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Simmons: Still Life Photographs," Jason McCoy Inc., New York.

1983
"Images Fabriquees," Centre Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris; Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France; Musee d'Art Actuel, Hasselt, Belgium (catalogue).
"Three-Dimensional Photography," Castelli Graphics, New York.
"The Horse Show," Robert Freidus Gallery, New York.
"Photography in America 1910-1983," Tampa Museum, Florida.
"Figurative Contexts," Truman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute.
"Newcastle Salutes New York," Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery, England.
Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York.
"In Plato's Cave," Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue).
"Subjective Vision," The High Museum, Atlanta (catalogue).

1982
"New New York," Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee; Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida (catalogue).
Metro Pictures, New York.
"Beyond Photography: The Fabricated Image," Delahunty Gallery, New York.
"Public Vision," White Columns, New York.
"Staged Photo Events," Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam; Neue Galerie/Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany; Muncipal van Reekummuseum, Apeldoorn, Holland.
"Subject: Women," University of Southern California Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
"The Image Scavengers," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (catalogue).

1981
"Pictures and Promises," The Kitchen, New York.
"Fabricated to be Photographed," Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
"Staged Shots," Delahunty Gallery, New York.
"Couches, Diamonds & Pie," P.S. 1, New York.
"Eight Contemporary Photographers," University of South Florida, Tampa.
"Carey Dwyer Simmons Skogland," Texas Gallery, Houston.
"Color Photography: 5 New Views," Marlborough Gallery, New York.
"Love Is Blind," Castelli Graphics, New York.
"Photo," Metro Pictures, New York.
"Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art," Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth; University of South Florida, Tampa; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
"Erweiterte Fotografie," 5. Wiener Internationale Biennale, Wiener Secession, Vienna. (catalogue)
"Figures: Forms and Expressions," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. (catalogue)
"35 Artists Return to Artists Space," Artists Space, New York.

1980
"Invented Images," UCSB Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz. (catalogue)
"Presences: The Figure and Manmade Environments," Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania (catalogue).
"70s-80s," Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago.
"Model Photography," CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
"Remembrances for Tomorrow," New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh.
"Image Fabrique," Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris.

1979
"Photographie als Kunst," Innsbruck Museum, Linz Gras, Austria.
"Selector's Choice," Baltimore Museum of Art.
"Re: Figuration," Max Protetch Gallery, New York.


Public collection

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia.
International Center of Photography, New York.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Muse'e d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Awards

2006
Distinguished Alumni Award, Temple University

2005
Roy Lichtenstein Residency in Visual Arts, The American Academy in Rome

1997
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

1984
National Endowment for the Arts Grant