Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz grew up on a farm in Maryland and is currently based in Western Massachusetts. She attended Yale University as a first-generation college student and completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a recipient of a LeRoy Neiman Printmaking Fellowship and other scholarships. Mumtaz’s creative projects and research have also been supported by grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Center for Craft, the Mass Cultural Council, Assets for Artists, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, the Kittredge Fund, the Lighton International Artist Exchange Program, the Mid Atlantic Art Foundation, Dieu Donné, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally and has been shown in solo and group presentations in New York, Karachi, Lahore, Mumbai, London and Dubai. She has participated in museum exhibitions at institutions including the Seattle Art Museum, the University of Buffalo Art Galleries, KMAC, Louisville, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, as well as in art fairs including Miami Art Basel, the India Art Fair, and Art Dubai. Since 2008 she has taught drawing, painting, printmaking, and design at institutions including Columbia University, the University of Virginia, American University and George Washington University. She is currently a member of the visiting faculties of Williams College and Skidmore College. She lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts with her family.