Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz

Murad Khan Mumtaz is a Pakistani-American artist and art historian. Born in Lahore, Pakistan to an architect father, Mumtaz started studying traditional Indian miniature painting in 2001 at the National College of Arts, then the only institution in the world to offer a BFA degree in the subject. He graduated with his bachelor's degree in 2004. In an interview, he stated that the technique taught at the National College was "an attenuated technique that had been significantly altered during the colonial period". Following his bachelor's, he was taught the Pahari style by an artist who had learnt from traditional Indian artists.