Anita Meyer was born in 1960 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and now lives and works in New York City.

Anita attended La Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires and The New York Studio School in New York City. She also earned a BA Magna Cum Laude from Brandeis University and an MFA from Parsons School of Design.

Anita taught art to children in a New York City public school for nearly twenty years and now teaches drawing privately to children and adults, as well as older adults in community centers.