Personal life[edit]
Laurie Simmons was born on Long Island, New York, in 1949, the daughter of Dorothy "Dottie", a housewife, and Samuel Ira "Sam" Simmons, a dentist.[3][4][5] She was raised in a Jewish community.[6] She received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1971. Simmons lives and works in New York City[7] and Cornwall, Connecticut with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham, and their two daughters, Lena and Grace.[7]