Kristin Simmons

Kristin Simmons is an American artist working in mixed media. Her work focuses primarily on capitalism, gender and psychology, often employing satirical images in a pop-art style. She was born and lives in New York City. 
==Early Life==
Simmons attended Deerfield Academy for high school before earning her degree at Columbia University. She began working in advertising as an account director and director of creative strategy, producing art as a personal side project and posting it on her Instagram account. She began selling her art, and through word of mouth, she eventually grew big enough to quit her job and focus on art full-time starting in 2016. 
==Career==
Simmons is a mixed-media artist, primarily in acrylic and oil painting and silkscreens. She has cited James Rosenquist, Tomas Vu Daniel, Depeche Mode and Jane Fonda as inspirations, and her work has drawn comparisons to Barbara Kruger, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
In 2017, she was one of 30 artists featured in the Whitney Museum as part of Debtfair, an exhibit by artists who collectively owed millions of dollars in debt.
In 2019, she was selected to be the United Nations artist in residence to represent the organization’s Sustainable Development Goal #5, the empowerment of women and girls. The first piece she was commissioned to produce was called Women Of Change, comprising 80 pennies, each featuring a different trailblazing female politician, artist, activist or business leader from the last century; it signified how women continue to earn an average of 80 cents to every dollar earned by men.
She was commissioned by Bergdorf Goodman to produce an interactive installation at the department store’s flagship location on Fifth Avenue in 2022. Her installation, Obsessions + Confessions, peppered the building’s seventh floor with glittery and ironic examples of consumerism that appear normal from afar but more unusual up close, such as a gumball machine filled with vodka bottles and botox vials. Time Out New York called it a “dazzling exhibit of satirical art”.
The following year, Simmons was chosen as an artist in residence at the 2023 Hamptons Fine Art Fair.
YouTube influencer Casey Neistat owns one of her pieces, and luxury real estate broker Ryan Serhant hangs two in his office. In 2022, she was selected as the debut featured artist for an NFT-minting tool created by Alteon.io for Opera Crypto Browser. She has appeared on TV and podcasts to discuss her work, lifestyle and the effects of colors on human psychology. 
==Exhibitions and installations ==
Hamptons Fine Art Fair, Southampton Fairgrounds, Southampton, 2023 
Obsessions + Confessions, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City, 2022
Beauty Comes From the Heart, LRN, New York City, 2021
Bright Light, Big City, Phillips, New York City, 2020
Money Power & Glory, CORE Gallery, New York City, 2020
Onward, the United Nations, New York City, 2019
The Edge of Glamour, Studio 522, New York City, 2019
Landscapes, East End Culture Club, Southampton, 2019
Parallels, Non-Finito Gallery, New York City, 2018
Hamptons Art Fair, the Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, 2018
Psycho-Belle, ChaShaMa Gallery, New York City, 2018
American Expense, Denis Bloch Fine Art, Los Angeles, 2018
The Los Angeles Art Show, Denis Bloch Fine Art, Los Angeles, 2018
Context: Miami Basel 2017, Markowicz Fine Art, Miami, 2017
Desperate Pleasures, Galerie Mourot, New York City, 2017
Debtfair: The Whitney Biennial, the Whitney Museum, New York City, 2017
Back to Our Future, SVA Galleries, New York City, 2016
Beauty is Life’s E-Z Pass, the ICP Printfest, New York City, 2016
American Dream, the Affordable Art Fair, New York City, 2016
Category:American artists
Category:Psychology
Category:Columbia University alumni 
Category:American people