Lorraine Simms

Lorraine Simms is a Canadian painter.

Lorraine Simms earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art in 1978. In 1990, she completed her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She began painting professionally in 1991. Simms lives and works in Montréal. She teaches at Dawson College.

In 2010, Simms completed The Interview, an illustrated book of a fictional interview with Michael Jackson after his funeral. Simms' produced a series of portraits called Fugitives, in which she painted portraits of women wanted on fraud charges. Her current work uses stuffed toys and plush objects as the subject matter, including people dressed in animal costumes.

• Deer 3 : Flashed, 2008, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec