Gary Simmons (b. 1964) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Simmons received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988 from the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY and received a Masters of Fine Art degree in 1990 from The California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA. Simmons work has been exhibited and collected internationally.  Including at the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; The Rubell Collection, Miami, FL; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.