Cristina Córdova is a contemporary artist and sculpting instructor focused on figurative ceramics. Native to Puerto Rico, Córdova completed her BA at the University of Puerto Rico and her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She is featured in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Everson Museum, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, and the Mobile Art Museum, among others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Herbert Adams Memorial Medal from The National Sculpture Society, United States Artist Fellowship, NC Arts Council Fellowship Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Recognition Grant, and several International Association of Art Critics of Puerto Rico awards.

In 2021 Cordova published Mastering Sculpture: The Figure In Clay by Quarry Books. In 2024 she established the Center for the Study of Figurative Ceramics. Her work is widely published in all major ceramics and arts media, including the cover of Ceramics Monthly, and was featured by Craft in America on PBS in their episode on Identity.