Anastasia Sierra is a photographer based in Cambridge, MA. Her work investigates the psychological complexities of motherhood, womanhood, and the domestic sphere, revealing profound vulnerability inherent in intergenerational bonds.
Sierra’s photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Danforth Art Museum, Emerson Contemporary Gallery, Panopticon Gallery, Blue Sky Gallery and Soho Photo Gallery. She is the recipient of a 2026 LensCulture Art Photography Award, was named a 2025 Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50 finalist, and is included in the 2025 Lenscratch Student Prize: Top 25 to Watch.
Her work is featured in the anthology Eye Mama: Poetic Truths of Home and Motherhood (teNeues Verlag, 2023) and has appeared in DEAR DAVE, Lenscratch, and Musée Magazine. Sierra holds a BA in Linguistics and is an MFA candidate at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2026).
Selected Exhibitions
2026 First Look 2026, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
Why We Look, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
MassArt Auction, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
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
2026 LensCulture Art Photography Award
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