Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz
Lecturer
Areas of Expertise: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Textiles
Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz works at the intersections of abstraction, contemplative practice and craft. Incorporating experimental approaches to drawing, painting, printmaking, collage and textiles, her practice aims to re-center forms of embodied knowledge that bear witness to the multivalence of identity, culture, heritage and belonging. Her visual language is informed by sacred geometry, pattern-based abstraction, ritual, domesticity and caregiving. She works with media including mineral and botanical pigments, handmade papers, woodblock printmaking, etching, artisanal fabrics, leather, tapestry weaving and hand quilting. Her meticulously fashioned artworks radiate from her lived experience as a practicing Muslim while simultaneously communicating aspects of her rural American upbringing and experiences inhabiting and moving between contrasting socio-cultural frameworks.
Mumtaz attended Yale as a first-generation college student and completed her MFA at Columbia, where she was a recipient of a LeRoy Neiman Printmaking Fellowship. In 2023 she was awarded a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft. Her creative projects and research have also been supported by grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 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 Donn茅 and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally and has been included in solo and group presentations at museums and galleries including the Seattle Art Museum, the University of Buffalo Art Galleries, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, KMAC Louisville, Bellwether, Tracy Williams LTD and Jhaveri Contemporary.
Office Saisselin 214
(518) 580-5033
Email: alyssamumtaz@skidmore.edu
BA, Yale University
MFA, Columbia University