Silver Eye

Join Fellowship 26 artists for a series of online conversations!
Meet them and learn more about their work, on view at Silver Eye through August 8, 2026.

In Fellowship 26, Jamie Ho and Robert Contreras II create immersive experiences that embrace photography as a fluid form, foregrounding how memory and cultures are reshaped across generations.

Working across GIFs, staged altars, and repetitive visual systems, Ho draws on personal and cultural histories to reexamine cross-cultural exchange and challenge Western conventions of representation.

Contreras's work explores family and migration, considering home as a feeling rather than a fixed place. Through photography, performance, and installations incorporating photographs printed on fabric, he examines the spaces between presence and absence, transforming cultural gaps into sites of connection.

Join both artists online on Thursday, August 6, at 6pm ET as they discuss their work and the themes explored in Fellowship 26.

Register below!

Jamie Ho, To Touch (Peonies), 2025, courtesy of the artist

Participating Artists

1. Jamie Ho is an interdisciplinary artist and educator from Fort Myers, Florida. Her art practice engages with photography, GIFs, new media, and installation to investigate the long-term impact of assimilation and cultural bereavement through references to ancestral Chinese traditions and artifacts. Her work troubles the history of public spectacle and display of Asian American women, using performance and lighting studio to challenge societal expectations of gender roles and performance. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art in the Photography and Moving Image area at Florida State University.

2. Robert Contreras II is a no sabo kid uncovering what lies beneath while planting a future rooted in the love and labor of his Ecuadorian and Mexican American family. Once taught to blend in, he now reclaims his identity through performances and photographs that examine memory, belonging, and legacy. His work turns cultural gaps into spaces of connection; an ongoing journey to honor the past, grow through the present, and tend to what’s yet to come.