Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz is an American artist best known for her work in drawing. Since 2007 she has been exhibiting large-scale works on paper incorporating song lyrics, literary quotations and other found language concerned with ideologies of attachment. More recently, while living and working between Pakistan and New Mexico, her work has turned toward archaeological considerations of abstraction, architecture, spatial narrative and symbology.

A native of Frederick, Maryland, Pheobus Mumtaz received a BA from Yale in 2004 and an MFA from Columbia in 2008. She has exhibited widely, with solo projects in London and New York, and has been recognized with a number of awards, including a 2009 fellowship in drawing from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has also participated in artist residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Dieu Donné, Yale in Norfolk, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Before joining the faculty of Washington, DC's American University in January 2012, she taught at Columbia, Beaconhouse National University and the National College of Arts, Lahore.

Recent projects include group exhibitions at White Columns, New York; the India Art Summit; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; and Grey Noise, Lahore, as well as a collaboration with Murad Khan Mumtaz and Triple Canopy magazine. She is currently working toward her third New York solo exhibition, which is forthcoming in March 2012.