About Melissa Meyer
Born 1946. Melissa Meyer is an American painter and draftsperson.
Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) 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 (1983, 1993), the National Academy 183rd Invitational Eric Isenburger Annual Award (2008), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009). 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,
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American painter (born 1946)
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Melissa Meyer was born on 4 May 1946.
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Melissa Meyer is a painter and draftsperson.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Melissa Meyer. https://biography.guide/melissa-meyer/
MLA: "Melissa Meyer." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/melissa-meyer/.
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