[3][4][5] His father was a carpenter by trade, but worked various other jobs to support the family.
[3] The family eventually migrated to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Cisneros was allowed to study English in nearby El Paso, Texas at the Lydia Patterson Institute.
[3] In 1927 at the age of 17, he dropped out of school in order to help support the family with various odd jobs and it was during this time he creating artwork from discarded commercial signs.
[3][4] In Juarez, he joined an artists and writers club, El Ateneo Fronterizo (The Border Athenaeum).
[4] In 2018, Cisneros's work was included in the El Paso Museum of Art group exhibition, Early West Texas: Waypoint and Home, alongside artists Manuel Gregorio Acosta and Tom Lea.