Anastasia Sierra is a photographer based in Cambridge, MA. Her work explores the themes of motherhood, womanhood, and the body from a feminist perspective.
Sierra’s photographs have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Art Museum, Emerson Contemporary Gallery, Photographic Resource Center, Vermont Center of Photography, Kathryn Schulz Gallery, and Soho Gallery in New York.
Her work has been supported by grants and awards from the Cambridge Art Association, Photographic Resource Center and Griffin Museum of Photography. Sierra’s work has been featured in numerous publications, including DEAR DAVE, Lenscratch, Lensculture, Musée Magazine, Artscope Magazine and What Will You Remember. She is a recipient of a 2025 Lensculture Critics’ Choice Award and is a 2025 Critical Mass Top 50 finalist. Sierra holds a BA in Linguistics and is currently an MFA candidate at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Selected Exhibitions
2025 DEAR DAVE Fellowship 2025 Archive (online)
Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition, Duncan Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Motherhood As Muse, Concord Art Center, Concord, MA
Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
Bittersweet Solo Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photograph @WinCam, Winchester, MA
Danforth Art Museum Juried Exhibition, Framingham, MA
Griffin Museum of Photography 31st Juried Member Exhibition, Winchester, MA
Movement/s, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA
MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Cambridge Art Association Member Prize Show, Kathryn Schulz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
First Look, A Second Glance, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
2024 PRC Exposure, Vandernoot Gallery at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Griffin Museum of Photography 30th Juried Member Exhibition, Winchester, MA
Vermont Center for Photography 2024 Open Juried Exhibition, Brattleboro, VT
2023 Blue 2023, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Center Forward 2023, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Soho Photo Gallery National Competition, New York, NY
2022 Griffin Museum of Photography 28th Juried Members Exhibition, Winchester, MA
Grants and Awards
2025 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50
Lenscratch Student Prize Top 25 to Watch
LensCulture Critics’ Choice Award
Cambridge Art Association Artist of the Year Award
2024 PRC Exposure Juror’s Choice Award
Cambridge Arts Association, Emergency Fund for Visual Artists Grant
2022 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist, Top 200
Griffin Award, Griffin Museum of Photography 28th Juried Members Exhibition
Publications
2025 ThereThereNow, The Color Studies
Motherhood As Muse, Exhibition catalog
2023 Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood. Arieli, Karni. teNeues Verlag.
Press
2025 Musee Magazine feature: Swimming Towards the Sun
Musee Magazine, Bittersweet Review
Bittersweet: Interview with Crista Dix
Lenscratch Student Prize: Top 25 to Watch
Artscope Magazine, Artistic Vision and Contemporary Dialogues
2024 Lenscratch, Anastasia Sierra and Carrie Usmar: Talking Motherhood
What Will You Remember, PRC Exposure 2024
Boston Globe, Griffin Museum 30th Annual Member Exhibition Review