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Susan Meyer

Susan Meyer, MFA

  • Specialist Professor

Department: Art and Design

Office: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall 303

Phone: 732-571-3428

Email: smeyer@monmouth.edu


Susan Meyer is an experienced educator and artist. Using both traditional and digital techniques, Meyer makes sculptures and installations exploring landscape, architecture, and the utopian instinct. Her work has been featured in museums and galleries across the United States, including Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York; Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado; the Korean Cultural Center, New York City; among others. Meyer’s work has been noted in Art Spiel, Impulse Magazine, Upstate Diary, Two Coats of Paint, Hyperallergic, and Whitewall Magazine. She has held fellowship residencies at MacDowell, Ucross, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Sculpture Space.

Meyer’s teaching at Monmouth is focused on foundations level courses.

Education

MFA, School of the Museum School at Tufts University

B.S., Skidmore College

Research Interests

  • Utopian communities
  • Scholar’s rocks
  • Modernist architecture
  • Mid-century playground/park structures

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2025

Group Chat, LABspace Gallery, Hillsdale, NY, Curators: Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher Artist Talk, June 8, 2025, moderated by Nicole Hayes, Program Manager, Interlude Artist Residency

2023

Foreland Presents: Greater Hudson Valley Series, Foreland, Catskill, NY, Curator: Jesse Greenberg Blue Portal, 8’ diameter x 3’ ceiling hung sculptural installation commission, 3-year duration, Albany International Airport, Concourse B, Albany, NY

2021

Pigeon Quilt, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY, 2020 Solo Exhibitions Juror: Kristen Dodge, Owner/Director, September Gallery

Recent Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2026

  • Do I know you from somewhere?, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Curator: Genevieve Lowe, 4-person
  • Bioformulacra, Ipso Facto Gallery, Hudson, NY, Curator: Bruno Smith
  • Welcome Back, RiNo Art District 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Truss House Gallery, Denver, CO, Curator: Jill Hadley Hooper and Jonas Sanchez

2025

  • Formless, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, Curator: Anne Trauben
  • You Think That’s Funny? Humor in Contemporary Art, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY, Curator: D. Dominick Lombardi
  • Multiverse, Hampden Gallery, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, Curator: D. Dominick Lombardi

2023

  • Glow, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, Curator: Ellen Hawley, 4-person
  • Going Outside, Sculpture Space Hudson, Hudson, NY, Curator: Dan Devine, Chair of Sculpture, Hofstra University

2022

  • Split and Becloud: 2022 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, Curator: Sophie Landres, Director of River Valley Arts Collective and professor of Visual Studies at The New School; Juror’s Award
  • Alumni Invitational 5, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Organized by: Rachel Seligman, Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator, 5-person
  • SHAPESHIFT, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY, 6-person
  • Mountain High, Valley Low: Artists of the Hudson Valley, LABspace Gallery, Hillsdale, NY, Curators: Julie Torres and Ellen Letcher

2021

  • The Subject is Line, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, Curator: Donna Moylan, artist
  • 45 Rock Art Exhibition: In a Different Light, Rockefeller Capital Management, New York, NY, Organized in Partnership with NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts)
  • FATE, Infrastructure 2021 Juried Exhibition (virtual), Juror: Dr. Jennifer Sudul Edwards, Chief Curator and Curator Contemporary Art, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Courses

Recently Taught Classes

2026 Fall

2026 Summer E

2026 Spring

  • Basic Design and Color – AR 114
  • Drawing I: Observation – AR 191

2025 Fall

  • Basic Design & Composition – AR 113

2025 Summer E

2025 Spring

  • Basic Design & Composition – AR 113
  • Basic Design and Color – AR 114

2024 Fall

  • Basic Design & Composition – AR 113

2024 Summer E

2024 Summer B

2024 Spring

  • Basic Design and Color – AR 114
  • Three-Dimensional Design – AR 116

2023 Fall

  • Basic Design & Composition – AR 113

2023 Summer E

2023 Summer B

2023 Spring

  • Basic Design and Color – AR 114
  • Three-Dimensional Design – AR 116

Frequently Taught Classes

  • Art Appreciation (AR 101)
  • Basic Design & Composition (AR 113)
  • Basic Design and Color (AR 114)
  • Drawing I: Observation (AR 191)
  • Three-Dimensional Design (AR 116)