Artist Profile

Melissa Meyer

Artist Profile

Melissa Meyer

Melissa Meyer (b. 1946, New York, NY) is an abstract painter based in New York. She received both a BS and an MA from New York University. Her lengthy exhibition history includes the recent solo exhibition Melissa Meyer: Grace and Me at Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH (2023), and her solo exhibition Throughlines at the Olympia Gallery, New York (2024). She has presented additional solo exhibitions at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York; Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York; Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH; Holly Solomon Gallery, New York; and Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland. Meyer’s development has been surveyed in two traveling exhibitions—one originated at the New York Studio School and the second at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Her recent group exhibitions include All the Right Notes at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA (2024); About Printmaking at Washington Art Association & Gallery, Washington, CT (2024); as well as exhibitions at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Pocantico, NY; the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Texas Gallery, Houston, TX; the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; and the National Academy of Design, New York, NY, where she is a member. She has completed public commissions in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, and at the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Jewish Museum, and many other public and private collections across the United States. Meyer was awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation. She is a frequent artist-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY, as well as at the Vermont Studio Center.

Artist Talk

An in studio conversation with Melissa Meyer and Rebecca Ibel in NYC on September 11, 2021.

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