Born in Hanover, Germany, 1915, Ursula Meyer studied in secret under Bauhaus Masters from 1934 to 1937. She continued her studies in Italy, at the Reggia Scuola in Faenza and completed her education in the US, with a BA from the New School, and a Masters from Columbia in 1962

Meyer became a professor of sculpture in the CUNY system, in 1963. She participated in more than 30 group shows including shows at MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Aldrich Museum, Newark Museum, Hudson River Museum, and the Finch College Museum. She sold out solo exhibits at the Amel Gallery and the A. M. Sachs Gallery. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, the Aldrich Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her work was installed at the CUNY Graduate Center, 1989.

Meyer was reviewed by the Village Voice, The New York Post, Art News, Arts Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Arts International, the Time Picayune, and the Washington Post in 1968. It was included in Minimal Art, by Gregory Battcock, Dutton, 1968, and Werkmonography, by Franz Erhard Walther, Tubigen, Germany, 1972.

She wrote Conceptual Art, Dutton, 1972, and more than 10 magazine articles about Art. Her articles appeared in Arts Magazine, 1969; (De-Objectivation of the Object), Art News, 1970; (How To Explain Pictures To A Dead Hare), Art Journal, 1974; (Notes on Studio Art Education), Print Collector's Newsletter, 1978; (Political Implications of Durer's "Knight Death and Devil"), and Kritische Berichte, 1978; (Politische Bezuge in Durer's "Ritter, Tod und Teufel"), and 83; (Durer's "Victoria" and His Apocalyptic Symbols).

Throughout a vigorous career, intellectual passion, conceptual mastery and a breathtaking range of inventiveness marked Ursula Meyer's work.

After retirement from CUNY in 1980 Meyer continued to create hundreds of new pieces of artwork, which have never been shown, including several very large sculptures. She also completed a manuscript for a second book. She was wildly experimental and prolific until the end of her life in 2003.