Paulina Meyer is a German-American artist living in Lisbon, Portugal. She received her BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 2022.

Paulina’s paintings depict uncanny worlds in which objects become the embodiment of fear, grief, and desire. Although influenced by symbolist language, these objects remain captured as static structures, as if the external world has been condensed inside a single house. Botanical references offer an expletive amidst worlds that otherwise consist of nonsense objects—a bird sutured with pearls, hovering in a bar-less cage; a gun without a trigger; alien mollusks with human eyes. Flowers become the great umbilical cord, tethered to the earth. By rewriting various symbols, she is building a world of fictionalized heritage, uncovering objects of experience while examining the various stages of losing and regaining oneself. She is interested in the transformative nature of symbols and how they can supplement these fictional world-scapes.

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Exhibitions:

2022 Thesis Exhibition, The Sickness of Love and Loss Transforms, Steuben Gallery, New York

2022 Group Exhibition, 2022 National Arts Club - Will Barnet Student Show, New York

2021 Juried Exhibition, AXA Art Prize, New York Academy of Art, New York

2021 Group Exhibition, Art of the Book, Pratt Institute Library, New York

2021 Group Exhibition, NYC Emerging College Artists, Sour Mouse Event Space, New York

2021 Group Exhibition, Nightmare Exchange Monotype Show, Pratt Institute, New York

2020 Group Exhibition, Virtual Gallery, Greenpoint Gallery, New York

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Publications:

2022 When the Whole Garden Burned, Artist’s Book, Lulu Publishing

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Public Work:

2023 Mural, The Bakery, Inverness, Scotland