May 18, 2012
Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham participated in the 2011 Featured Artists Lecture Series presenting a joint lecture on their work on Thursday, July 7, 2011 at Schermer Meeting Hall.
Anderson Ranch Arts Center honored Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham with the National Artist Award in conjunction with the 15th Annual Recognition Dinner on July 9, 2011.
The National Artist Award is given to nationally or internationally recognized artists who have supported artists, created innovations in art making, and whose careers have set an example and a direction for other artists.
Featured Artists Lecture Series
The Anderson Ranch Arts Center Featured Artists Lecture Series featured an exceptionally exciting schedule of world-class, internationally recognized artists and leaders in their fields to speak in public lectures at the Ranch. The Featured Artists Lecture Series 2011 was sponsored in part by Citi Private Bank.
Laurie Simmons was born on Long Island, New York, in 1949. She received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (1971). Simmons's work blends psychological, political and conceptual approaches to art making, transforming photography's propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. Simmons has received many awards, including the Roy Lichtenstein Residency in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome (2005); and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1984). She has had major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006); Baltimore Museum of Art (1997); San Jose Museum of Art, California (1990); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1987); and has participated in two Whitney Biennials (1985, 1991).
Carroll Dunham was born in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut and graduated from Trinity College in 1972. He had his first one-person show in New York in 1981 and since then has shown in major cities around the country. He has twice been featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial Exhibition (1985 and 1995) and was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at The New Museum. He has shown extensively worldwide. Dunham was awarded the 2004 Skowhegan Medal for Distinction in Painting. He currently works in New York and Connecticut.