Greer Lankton was an American artist, whose work was dedicated to creating life-like, posable dolls and figures. Greer Lankton was born Greg Lankton in Flint, Michigan, to a presbytarian minister and his wife.

Greer had a rough childhood, and was picked on for being feminine. It was during her cildhood that she began creating dolls. “It was when I was about ten years old … I used to make dolls out of hollyhocks and all types of flowers. Pipecleaner dolls and things like that. I started taking it seriously by the time I went to college when I was 17.”

Greer changed her name and had her sexual reassignment surgery at the age of 21, which was paid for by her father’s church. Gender and sexuality are recurring themes in her art. Her dolls are created in the likeness of those society calls “freaks”, and have often been compared to the surrealist works of Hans Bellmer, who made surreal dolls with inter-changable limbs.