Lorraine Simms explores our relationship to the natural world through paintings, sculptures, and installations. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and in the United States in private and public galleries including the Canadian Museum of Nature (Ottawa), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec), the Beaty Museum of Biodiversity (Vancouver), Oboro (Montreal), the Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary), the Tom Thomson Gallery (Owen Sound), the Centre d'exposition Expression (Sainte-Hyacinthe), A.R.C. Gallery (Chicago), and the Anna Leonowens Gallery (Halifax).
Simms’ work has been reviewed in Canadian Art, Border Crossings, and Parachute and in national and regional newspapers. She has received numerous grants from the Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. Lorraine Simms has participated in many residencies, including two at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 2018 and 2019.
Lorraine Simms completed her graduate studies at Concordia University. She lives and works in Montreal where she is represented by McBride Contemporary.