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Laurie Simmons is a photographer and filmmaker associated with the Pictures Generation group of artists, and best known for her images of dollhouses, puppets, and dummies. Born in Long Island, NY, Simmons graduated from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1971, and moved to New York in 1973. Her early work depicts dollhouses that evoke Dutch paintings of interiors and the advertisements found in 1950s housekeeping magazines. Simmons has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1997 and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1984. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Whitney Biennials of 1985 and 1991. She lives and works in New York.