Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 138 |
| Germany | 13 |
| France | 10 |
| Canada | 7 |
| Spain | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Metro Pictures Gallery, USA |
28 |
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Baldwin Gallery, USA |
5 |
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ICP - International Center of Photography, USA |
4 |
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AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Belgium |
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Biography: 
1949 Born in New York NY (US)
Awards 1984 received a National Endowment for the arts grant
1997 received the Guggenheim foundation fellowship
2005 received the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in visual arts at the american academy in Rome
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 217  from 1.6.
until 1.9.
until 25.5.
Solo shows 28
2012
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| The Love Doll - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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| Laurie Simmons - Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg |
2011
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| Laurie Simmons - Wilkinson Gallery, London (England) |
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| Laurie Simmons - The Love Doll: Days 1-30 - Salon 94 Bowery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| The Love Doll : Jours 1-17 - JGM. Galerie, Paris |
2009
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| Laurie Simmons - Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
2008
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| Laurie Simmons - In and Around the House - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels |
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| Laurie Simmons: in and around the house - Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Laurie Simmons - Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid |
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| Color Coordinated Interiors 1983 - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Laurie Simmons: Photographs 1998 - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
2006
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| Laurie Simmons - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Laurie Simmons - The Music Of Regret - Salon 94, New York City, NY |
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| Laurie Simmons: New Photographs - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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| Laurie Simmons - Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid |
2004
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| Laurie Simmons - The Instant Decorator - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Laurie Simmons - Photographs 1978/79 - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Laurie Simmons - 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen |
2001
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| Laurie Simmons - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
2000
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| Laurie Simmons - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Laurie Simmons - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Laurie Simmons - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Laurie Simmons - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Laurie Simmons - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1988
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| Laurie Simmons - Ventriloquism - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Laurie Simmons - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Laurie Simmons - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Laurie Simmons - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
Group shows 186
2013
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| Light Sensitive - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
2012
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Hybrid Images - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Formative Matters: Simple Childhood Pleasures - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Room In My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces - Gallery 1600 - Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD, Atlanta, GA |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Desire - Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Material - Salon 94 Freemans, New York City, NY |
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| The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
2011
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| Donne Donne Donne - Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli (GE) |
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| Beyond Architecture - The Columns, Seoul |
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| Session 4 / All Of The Above - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| IMMOBILE ACTION - mitterrand+cramer / art advisory, Geneva |
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| The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973 – 1991 - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
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| Streetlife und Homestories - Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
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| Folios & Installations - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva |
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| Tender is the Night - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
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| Femme objet, Femme sujet - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
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| The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure The Signs Of Power, 1973-1992 - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
2010
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| BigMinis - Fetishes of Crisis - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Collection 2 - Focus on Recent Acquisitions - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| 8th Gwangju Biennale - 10,000 Lives - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| fast forward 2. The Power of Motion - Media Art Sammlung Goetz - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Your History is not Our History - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| SHOOT! - Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA |
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| Tha Visible Vagina - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| The four photographer collection - TKG Editions Kyoto, Kyoto |
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| Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video - The ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, New York City, NY |
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| mise en scène - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest |
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| We're all gonna die Part B - Number 35, New York City, NY |
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| We're all gonna die - Sue Scott Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Images & (re)présentations - The 1980s – Part 2 - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
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| We're all gonna die Part A - Number 35, New York City, NY |
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| The Puppet Show - Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Surveillance from the Doll House - Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York City, NY |
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| The Glamour Project - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| The Puppet Show - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
2008
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| The Prisoner's Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection - CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL |
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| Espèces d'espace - MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble |
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| Listen Darling… The World is Yours - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão |
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| Summer Exhibition - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| In the photographic image - The Columns, Seoul |
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| Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| The Puppet Show - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| REMIX : Recent Acquisitions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Brasil desFocos [o olho de fora] - Paço das Artes, São Paulo |
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| Lawn Boy Meets Valley Girl: Gender in the Suburbs - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
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| The Puppet Show - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
2007
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| Season's Greetings - de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich |
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| Ghosts - Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris |
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| Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture - Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| the red show - Red Dot Contemporary, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| KunstFilmBiennale 2007 - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| Passion Complex - Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa |
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| Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989 - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Temptations - The Columns, Seoul |
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| Imagination becomes Reality - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Dolls - Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
2006
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| Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984 and abstract expresionism: 1940-1960 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| The Food Show - The Hungry Eye - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY |
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| „Imagination Becomes Reality“ Part V: Fantasy and Fiction - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Women Only! In Their Studios - Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL |
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| The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA |
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| American Icons - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| Made in USA - Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris |
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| The Collectibles - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Women in the Bedroom - Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| post_modelism - Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen |
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| The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
2005
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| XS - Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid |
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| PERFORMA 05 - Performa, New York City, NY |
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| post_modellismus – models in art - Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna |
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| From the Source, Fashion Photographs - Corkin Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| CerealArt - Perry Rubenstein Gallery - 526 West 24 street, New York City, NY |
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| Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England) |
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| For Presentation and Display - Some Art of the 80s - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| Colecoes VI - 17 Foros - 18 Artistas - Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo |
2004
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| East Village USA - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Fifth International Biennial Exhibition: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| The last picture show. Artistas que hacen uso de la fotografía. Tendencias conceptuales de 1960-1982 - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2003
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| Fotografie 2 - Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Fall Colors: Group Show - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Sphere - Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC |
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| Designs For Living - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Hot Summer in the City - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Home - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris |
2002
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| Live! - Guido Costa Projects, Turin |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN |
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| Enough about me - Momenta Art, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA |
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| Almost Warm & Fuzzy - CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| Re-Location - on moving - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Televisions - Kunst sieht fern - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
2000
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| Veronica's Revenge - Contemporary Perspectives on Photography - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| Laurie Simmons, Peter Wheelwright - - Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
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| S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
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| Der anagrammatische Körper - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| 150 Years of Photography - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
1999
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| Who's That Girl? - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Der anagrammatische Körper: Der Körper und seine mediale Konstruktion - Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag |
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| Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
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| Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1998
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| Nizhoni, A Beautiful Rug: The Bertha Brossman Blair Collection of Southwestern Textiles - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| Re-presenting Art - Four Decades of Post-Modernism - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
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| Making it Real - Truthfulness in Photographic Images - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| A Collector's View - Photographs from the Sondra Gilman Collection - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Backstage - Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Gesichter. Zeitgenössische Fotografie - Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin |
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| AG Fotografie - Gesichter - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin |
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| Veronica's Revenge - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
1997
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Now on View - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Malcolm Morley, Laurie Simmons, Rosemarie Trockel - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mirror Enough: Self-Portraits - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| 2. Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie - - Österreichische Triennale zur Fotografie, Graz (closed, 2003) |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Personal / Impersonal - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Allan McCollum, Laurie Simmons – Actual Photos - kunstraum muenchen, Munich |
1995
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| McCollum - Simmons - actual photos - Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover |
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| The Monster Show - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Fact, Fiction and Truth: Contemporary Portraits - Lehman College Art Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Actual Photos - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| L'immagine riflessa - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
1994
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Act-Up Benefit Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Louise Lawler, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers And Artists Respond In The Time Of Aids - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1988
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| Two To Tango: Collaboration In Recent American Photography - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Nitelife - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Past - imperfect - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Towards the Photograph as a Vulgar Document - Optica - centre for contemporary art, Montreal, QC |
1987
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Editions from Ilene Kurtz - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Midtown Review: A Look at Photography Books of 1987 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Art Against Aids - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| La magie de l'image - The Banff Centre - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB |
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| Past - imperfect - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1986
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| A Visible Order - Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Art & Advertising: Commercial Photography by Artists - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Group Exhibition - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| La magie de l'image - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Allan McCollum & Laurie Simmons: A Collaboration - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| 18° Bienal de Sao Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1984
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| New Work New York - Newcastle Salutes New York - University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne |
1982
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| Group Exhibition - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Figures, forms and expressions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Photo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1980
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| Opening Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 15 |
Belgium
| | Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
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France
| | Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris
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Japan
| | Tomio Koyama Gallery - Kyoto, Kyoto
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| | Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
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Spain
| | Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid
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Switzerland
| | mitterrand+cramer / art advisory, Geneva
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United Kingdom
| | Wilkinson Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
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| | Artware Editions, New York City, NY
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| | Cook Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
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| | Salon 94, New York City, NY
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| | Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Diane Villani Editions, New York City, NY
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Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Germany
| | me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
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| | Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen
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Japan
| | NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
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| | Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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Portugal
| | Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
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USA
| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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| | CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | The West Collection, Oaks, PA
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| | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
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| | The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Catalogs
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