Alyssa Sakina Pheobus is an American artist working at the intersections of abstraction, contemplative practice and craft. Her work engages with the transcultural sacred science of geometry and its diverse manifestations in global architecture, textiles and arts of the book. She is influenced by the philosophies of Sufism, Bhakti and other devotional traditions that articulate spiritual experience through visual means. Her work braids together drawing, painting, printmaking and textiles with her research into artisan culture.
Alyssa grew up on a farm in Maryland. She attended Yale University as a first-generation college student and completed her MFA at Columbia University. Alyssa’s creative projects and research have been supported by grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Center for Craft, the Mass Cultural Council, Dieu Donné, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Neiman Center for Print Studies. Her work is represented in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, Columbia University and private collections worldwide.
In 2026 she will be an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she is on the faculty of Williams College.