Melissa Meyer (born May 4, 1946) is an American painter.
[1] The Wall Street Journal has referred to her as a "lighthearted Abstract Expressionist".
[2] Meyer received a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 1980,[3] 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).
[citation needed] In the late 1970s Meyer and Miriam Schapiro collaborated on a Heresies article entitled femmage [fr].
[4][5] In 1997 her sketchbooks were published in facsimile by the Mezzanine Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.