Melissa Meyer

Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American painter living in New York, NY. She is known for her paintings, watercolors and prints, which have been exhibited in the United States and abroad.

Melissa Meyer was born in the Bronx and grew up in Queens. She studied at New York University from 1968 to 1975, receiving a B.S. and an M.A. Meyer spent her summers as a scholarship student at the Provincetown Workshop, working with Leo Manso and Victor Candell. Shortly thereafter, in 1974, Meyer made her first visit to Yaddo, upon the recommendation of Helen Frankenthaler. Since that time, she has made countless visits to Yaddo and is currently a board member. Melissa Meyer has been the recipient of many other grants and residencies as well, including a fellowship at The American Academy in Rome (1980), two National Endowment for the Arts grants (1983, 1993), the National Academy 183rd Invitational Eric Isenburger Annual Award (2008) and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009). In the late-seventies, Melissa Meyer questioned why so many women made collages, an idea that sparked Miriam Schapiro’s interest. Their collaboration became the influential Heresies article entitled Femmage.

Meyer has exhibited over 40 solo shows, beginning in 1976, and has also contributed to numerous group shows. She is currently represented by the New York gallery Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. and, online, by IdeelArt.com. On her last solo exhibition at Lennon, Weinberg, Lance Esplund wrote “… the works suggest a range of elements—water, fire, solid, air—and of personality. The fusion of line and ground in this body of work creates an interplay in which linear movements become spatial arabesques.” In 1984, Meyer had the first one-person exhibit at Exit Art, with an accompanying catalogue essay by Stephen Westfall. From 2003- 2005 she exhibited with Elizabeth Harris. Her 2003 exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, with an essay written by Meg Wolitzer. In 2006-2008, she held a solo survey exhibition of her black and white works on paper at the New York Studio School. The show then traveled to Weigand Gallery and Notre Dame de Namur University. Meyer held another survey show at Swarthmore College, which traveled to Selby Gallery and Ringling College of Art and Design. The catalogue included essays by Robert Storr and David Cohen. Melissa Meyer was included in a group show at The National Academy Museum in New York, entitled Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction in 2011.

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