Robert Melzmuf was born in Middletown Connecticut in 1960 and attended the Hartford Art School and Southern Connecticut State University, upon graduating he worked at the New Britain Museum of American Art. In 1991 he moved to New York where he continues to paint while working for art galleries. In 2002 he was awarded a residency to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson Vermont. He is in collections throughout the United States and Europe including the Cupelouzos Museum in Athens Greece. Since 2018 he has participated in five art fairs in Provence France. In 2025 he along with Christopher Blyth, Karl Bielik, and Rob Hall curated “Cross Currents” a show of New York and London abstract painters that was shown in both cities.

Melzmuf has shown in galleries around the United States, including Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and New Haven; also at Aqua Art Fair in Miami and the Hamptons Fine Art Fair. His solo shows in New York were at Giacobetti Paul, 55 Mercer, Industrious Brooklyn, and 2/20 galleries; in France at Gallerie du Festival in Rocquebrune-sur-Argens; in group shows in New York at Helm Contemporary, Makowski Gallery, Thomas Vandyke Gallery, Pace Gallery, Sideshow, Calico, and Barbara Greene Gallery, in Bargemon France at Beddington Fine Arts. His studio is at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn.