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.


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.