About Robert

Robert Meyer is a sculptor whose work explores the dialogue between forms—how separate elements lean toward, resist, or depend on one another, and how balance emerges from opposition. Inspired both by the organic patterns of nature and the accidents of process, his practice spans a wide range of materials, including foam, steel and marble. What connects these works is an enduring curiosity about balance, tension, and the possibilities that emerge when intention meets discovery.

Meyer’s sensitivity to form and texture is rooted in his background in graphic design and woodworking, and in a lifelong fascination with organic patterns found in nature. His sculptures range from monumental outdoor installations to intimate studio works, each exploring the dialogue between geometry and irregularity, precision and improvisation.

Meyer received a BFA from the University of Colorado and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he also studied woodworking at the School of American Craftsmen. In 1999, he trained in marble carving at Studio Sem in Pietrasanta, Italy. His work has been exhibited widely, with pieces in institutional and private collections, including the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY.

“All of Meyer’s works... set up a dialogue between parts and wholes, masses and volumes, surfaces and their scars. …These are works of graphic purity and tactile richness at the same time. …As much as his work “discovers” affinities to nature, to architecture, to symbol, and to narrative, its most persuasive attribute is its capacity for touch.”
—Patricia Rossoff, Sculpture Magazine

Selected Highlights

No. 14 wins Juror’s Choice Award in Equinox: Passage from Dark to Light. 2024. This exhibition, by the New England Sculptors Association, was judged by Laisun Keane, owner of LaiSun Keane Gallery in the SoWa Art District in Boston, MA.

Selected for Mixmaster. 2024. Juried exhibition judged by Susan Eley, owner and director of Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City. Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

Feature article and Cover in Ink Publications January 2024 issue.

Selected for Mixmaster 2023, Juried exhibition judged by Elizabeth Thompson Kirkpatrick, Director of Anita Rogers Gallery, New York City, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

Selected for Mixmaster 2022, Juried exhibition judged by Kyle Harris of Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

Juror’s Award for Sculpture, Connecticut Academy of Arts 110th Annual Exhibition, 2021, Juried Exhibition judged by Dominic Molon is the Richarad Brown Baker, Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Juror’s Award for Best Abstract Art, Inside Out, 2020, Juried Exhibition judged by Melanie Carr of Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex, CT, Old Lyme Artist Association, Old Lyme, CT

Two person show with painter Susan Tremaine: Form Function + Space, 2020, Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT

2 Forms w/Sphere no.5 Acquired by The Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme Connecticut, 2008

Commission for Quinnipiac University, 2008

Commission for Quinnipiac University, 2004

Solo exhibit at Greene Gallery, Guilford, CT, 2003

Solo exhibit at Enterprise Corporate Park, Shelton, CT, 2003

Commission for Quinnipiac University, 2002

Studied at Studio Sem, Pietrasanta, Italy, 1999

Commission for Quinnipiac University, 1999

Collections



Museums

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

Corporate/Institutional

Alegna Corporation, Shelton, CT

Gannett Co., Inc., Arlington, VA

McGregor Links Foundation, Falls Church, VA 
Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT

R. D. Scinto, Inc., Shelton, CT

Sculpture Grounds, Old Lyme, CT

“Meyer’s evocative sculpture is both powerful and poetic. His sensitivity to materials and his dramatic contrast of formal elements are but a few of the visual delights found in his work.”

—Grant Holcomb, Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Commissions

2006 Quinnipiac University
Service Award



2004 Quinnipiac University

Service Award Plaque



2003 Quinnipiac University

President’s Medallion Case



1999 Quinnipiac University

Ceremonial Mace and Pedestal

Juried Professional Memberships



New England Sculptors Association

Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT
The Artists Collective of Westport, Westport, CT

The Sculptors Guild, New York City, NY