Kristin Simmons

United States  • 1989

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Kristin Simmons is a painter, printmaker, and silkscreen artist born in 1989 in New York. She graduated from Columbia University in 2012 with a BA in Studio Art and Art History. She received several prestigious awards including the Orra White Hitchcock and National Endowment of the Arts Award.

She grew up in New York, and her experience of the culture of excess is her major inspiration. Simmons used the internet, books and pop culture to appropriate source images for her work before blending these images with childhood toys and objects in her studio. Her Senior Thesis at Columbia University, was a re-interpretation of the canonical children's board game 'Candy Land'. Her art tends to explore the conflation and confusion of two languages: the simplicity of a child's, and the overwrought complexity that exposure to mass media imposes.


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Kristin Simmons is a painter, printmaker, and silkscreen artist born in 1989 in New York. She graduated from Columbia University in 2012 with a BA in Studio Art and Art History. She received several prestigious awards including the Orra White Hitchcock and National Endowment of the Arts Award.

She grew up in New York, and her experience of the culture of excess is her major inspiration. Simmons used the internet, books and pop culture to appropriate source images for her work before blending these images with childhood toys and objects in her studio. Her Senior Thesis at Columbia University, was a re-interpretation of the canonical children's board game 'Candy Land'. Her art tends to explore the conflation and confusion of two languages: the simplicity of a child's, and the overwrought complexity that exposure to mass media imposes.

When was Kristin Simmons born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1989