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Karl Andreas Meyer (* 23. Juli 1958 in Basel) is a Swiss painter and sculptor.

Life and work
Karl A. Meyer began his artistic work in New York City in the 1980s with large-format woodcuts inspired by Hopi iconography. At this time, the so-called East Village movement emerged where Meyer was represented in exhibitions and publications.

He has been involved in Roland Hagenberg’s Raiding Project since 2010 and has exhibited his works alongside artists such as Hiroshi Hara, Ai Weiwei and Terunobu Fujimori, including the installation Cloud of Humanity, which consists of 15,000 clay figures and were exhibited in numerous exhibitions. They later resulted in large-scaled sculptures, among them Birdman which was erected in 2015 at the entrance to Raiding, birthplace of composer Franz Liszt. The book Crosby Street about Meyer's time in New York and his collaboration with the Austrian artist Roland Hagenberg were published by Art In Flow Verlag Berlin in 2022.

Selected Exhibitions

 * 1984 Large Works, group exhibition with Edward Brezinski, Roni Horn, Hunt Slonem and others, Brabara Braathen Gallery, New York
 * 1985 East Village Funktional,  Group exhibition with  Kenny Scharf, Rhonda Zwillinger, Mark Kostabi and others. Rosa Esman Gallery, New York; Art against AIDS, Group exhibition with Arman, Christo, Mark DiSuvero, Tom Butter and others, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
 * 1986 Children's Coloring Book Drawings for UNICEF, group exhibition with Keith Haring, Richard Serra, Tom Wesselmann, Christo, Richard Hambleton and others, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York; Artists of Barbara Braathen Gallery, group exhibition with Donald Lipski, Ed Brezinski, Hunt Slonem and others, The Limelight, New York
 * 1987 Multiple Visions - East Village Artists, group exhibition with Rhonda Wall, Philip Pocock, Rick Prol, Paul Benny, Richard Hambleton and others, Art Now Gallery, Goteborg; Karl A. Meyer Works, Galerie Littmann, Basel; Karl A. Meyer, Kunstmuseum Thurgau
 * 1988 Karl  A. Meyer and Not Vital, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York
 * 1991 Karl A. Meyer, Grossetti Art, Milan
 * 2003 Das Rudel, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Switzerland
 * 2004 Das Rudel, Kunstraum Remise, Bludenz, Austria
 * 2013 Hiroshi Hara and Karl A. Meyer, Raiding Project, Raiding, Austria.

Selected Publications

 * Eastvillage: A Guide. A Documentary. Roland Hagenberg (editor), with essays by Alan Jones, Jo Shane, Nicolas A. Moufarrege, Carlo MacCormick u. a., Pelham Press, New York 1985
 * Karl A. Meyer, in: Happy Happy – A childrens’ coloring book by contemporary artists. Conceived and produced by Roland Hagenberg, Egret Publications, New York 1986, S. 15
 * Karl A. Meyer, Roland Hagenberg: RIO - Love and Life in Times of Executions. Polaroids and Poems. Art In Flow, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-938457-45-0.
 * Karl A. Meyer, Terunobu Fujimori, Hiroshi Hara (Architekt), Roland Hagenberg: Raiding Project - Ten Fabulous Years. Art In Flow, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-938457-46-7.
 * Karl A. Meyer, Roland Hagenberg: Crosby Street, Art In Flow, Berlin 2022, ISBN 978-3-938457-47-4