SAM MESSER

IMAGINE HAPPINESS

B. 1955, NEW YORK, NY

Sam Messer received a BFA from Cooper Union (1976) and an MFA. from Yale University (1982). His work may be found in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University Art Gallery. 

Messer has received awards including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant (1984), Engelhard Award (1985), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (1993), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996). He has collaborated with Paul Auster on The Story of My Typewriter, and with Denis Johnson on Cloud of Chalk and the animated film Denis the Pirate.