Sam Messer(美国，生于1955)在纽约布鲁克林生活和工作。Messer（梅瑟）于1976年从库珀联盟学院获得了美术学士学位，1982年获得耶鲁大学的美术硕士学位。他的作品一般出现在公共收藏中，包括大都会艺术博物馆、惠特尼美国艺术博物馆、波士顿美术馆、波士顿美术馆、休斯顿美术馆、芝加哥艺术学院和耶鲁大学美术馆。

梅瑟先生在1984年获得了路易斯·舒蒂·蒂芙尼基金会奖，1985年的恩格尔哈德奖，1993年的波兰克拉斯纳基金会奖，1996年的古根海姆奖。他最近与作家乔纳森·萨弗兰·福尔(Jonathan Safran Foer)和保罗·奥斯特(Paul Auster)合作，讲述了《我的打字机》的故事，以及丹尼斯·约翰逊(Denis Johnson)的《粉笔云》。1994年，他被任命为耶鲁大学的高级评论家，2005年被任命为副院长和教授(兼职)。他还担任诺福克的耶鲁大学音乐艺术学院艺术部主任。

Sam Messer (American, b. 1955) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Messer received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1976 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1982. His work may be found in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University Art Gallery.

Mr. Messer has received awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984, the Engelhard Award in 1985, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1993, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. He has recently collaborated with the writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Paul Auster on The Story of My Typewriter, and with Denis Johnson on Cloud of Chalk. He was appointed senior critic at Yale in 1994 and in 2005 was appointed associate dean and professor (adjunct). He also serves as director of the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk.