Artist Profile

Melissa Meyer

Artist Profile

Melissa Meyer

Melissa Meyer 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 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 Renee 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 works have been included recently in group exhibitions at The Jewish Museum, New York, Texas Gallery, Houston, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York and the National Academy of Design in New York, an organization of which she is a member. She has completed public commissions in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Bishkek US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan. Her work is included in the collection 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 a 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, New York as well as at the Vermont Studio Center. Recently, Melissa has participated in group shows at the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Pocantico, NY, Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacy of Modern Art, and the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX Fashion Nirvana: From Runway to Everyday. In 2023, Melissa exhibited in a solo show at Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus OH, Melissa Meyer: Grace and Me and in 2024 had an exhibition Throughlines at the Olympia Gallery in New York.

Artist Talk

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

Artwork