Cecilia Sierra (b. 1997) is an artist from Brownsville, Texas. She has a bachelor's in Studio Art with a minor in marketing from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Sierra explores various themes related to South Texas ecology and nostalgia from growing up in a border community. She expresses these themes through relief printmaking, cyanotype, and embroideries combined with found objects. Through Sierra's experience living in the Rio Grande Valley, she’s learned to appreciate and acknowledge the abundance of resources available to her. The natural environment is a unique migrant path through land and water for birds, insects, animals, etc. Sierra has continued to explore various characteristics of her community based on generational trauma, migration, and dynamics. She is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Flower Shop art residency in Brownsville, Texas, where she welcomes newcomers to experience the frontera culture. Sierra was recently awarded the artist in residence for South Texas Artist in Residence 2025 on behalf of the Art Center of Corpus Christi and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Center for Coastal Studies. She’s also been included in various group exhibits, such as Bitter/Sweet Longing, San Antonio, TX (2025), An Allegory of Abundance, South Texas College Library Art Gallery, Weslaco, TX (2023), and Quince, Schaudies Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX (2022).
