Melissa Meyer


Melissa Meyer is an American painter. The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist".

Life and work

Meyer received a fellowship at the American [Academy in Rome] in 1980, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the National Academy 183rd Invitational Eric Isenburger Annual Award, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In the late 1970s Meyer and Miriam Schapiro collaborated on a Heresies article entitled .
In 1997 her sketchbooks were published in facsimile by the Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Melissa Meyer's paintings and works on paper are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Jewish Museum,