Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and Modernist architect best known for designing such iconic museums as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His geometric designs are characterized by openness and clarity, executed predominantly in white. He has remarked, “White is the most wonderful color because within it you can see all the colors of the rainbow. The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and that which is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun and the moon.” Much of Meier's work was built using Le Corbusier's ideas, but he is also influenced by other early to mid-20th century architects such asMies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragán.

Meier’s collages complement his architecture in various, unexpected ways. In sharp contrast to his architectural drawings, they are nonrepresentational. Yet in a manner similar to those drawings, they record the artist's creative process. Like the architecture itself, his collages seeks to reconcile the antithetical conditions of random discord and ideal order. They are complex, multi-faceted structures with powerful, visionary compositions that introduce new relationships between color and medium, text and imagery.

Meier has received the highest honors in the field including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, the Gold Medals of the American Institute of Architects, and the Royal Institute of British Architects as well as the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association. Some of his notable projects include the Jubilee Church in Rome, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the City Hall building in The Hague. His art has been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, John Hartell Gallery at Cornell University in Ithaca, Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich.

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