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A survey of artists working within 300 miles of Pittsburgh that explores how identity intersects with the histories, mythologies, and realities of the places where they work and live

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Delightfully homemade props and costumes create monsters, heroes, villains, and devils and “the tragedy of becoming an adult”

Crafting an environment of personal growth, reflection and care

A selection of work from participants of the spring Silver Eye Institute workshops

Exploring the intersections of visual media with engineering, optics, Blackness, and African cosmologies

The winners + honorable mentions of our annual call for entries

A new collection of handmade collages from Melbourne based artist Zoë Croggon, named after Katherine Anne Porter’s eponymous novel about the 1918 influenza pandemic.

The artist speaks with Silver Eye Scholar Jacob Sizemore on

The Iranian-American artist speaks with Silver Eye Scholar Camryn Drabenstadt about her new project

Artists explore self care as self preservation

The Fellowship 20 Keystone Award explores how working in a grocery store affects his psychological space

A selection of work from the Fellowship 20 Keystone Award Honorable Mentions

Our Virtual Reading Group Continues in 2021

A seventeen year quest with moments of disappointment and hope

Exploring the traditions of African American cowboys and cowgirls in the Mississippi Delta

A selection of work from the Fellowship Award Honorable Mentions

Recounting a past relationship through drawings, travel notes, polaroids, and photographs

An interview with Louie Palu about his project, Arctic Passage

Open now by appointment!

Looking at a selection of work from Zora J Murff's recent publication, At No Point In Between

A collection of our virtual studio visit series

Looking at Philip Cheung's series, The Thing About Remembering

An online exhibition featuring work by Fellowship 20 Honorable Mention J Houston

Manipulated interiors reflecting American aspirations

An online exhibition looking at a selection of work from Alex Christopher Williams

Talking about nostalgia, Niagara Falls, and souvenirs

A selection of images from Sarah Kaufman's series, Devil's Pool

A haunting visual response to the Black Lives Matter movement

Other worldly photographs situated in the familiar

A look into how personal histories can begin to reshape an initial view of a landscape

An online exhibition looking at a selection of work from Will Harris

New work from Barbara Weissberger centered around the many meanings and interpretations of the word "mother."

Tracing a curious landscape

Wellness, illness, belief, fact, and the many areas in between

A new exhibition that explores family and migration with absurdity and affection

Something romantic, and broken, and slightly other worldly

Short videos that bounce between television, pop music, and personal experiences

Animations that explore histories and movements of resistance

An exhibition exploring mentorship and the creative influences between a teacher and her former student

A tender portrait of the eccentricities of home

An evening of film and video made in Pittsburgh

Images that speak of summer, the essence of heat, and what it feels like to be surrounded by highways, derelict factories, and crumbling malls

A photographic exploration of the biological and the medical exploration

An online exhibition looking at a selection of work from Mark Davis

Exhibitions from Tim Carpenter and Rebecca Arthur, selected from Silver Eye's annual juried competition

An online exhibition looking at a selection of work from Vikesh Kapoor

A new documentary on the legendary street photographer with director, Sasha Waters Freyer

An online exhibition looking at a selection of work from Ian Kline

Two filmmakers share and discuss a dystopic sci-fi future and opera with live music

A new biennial exhibition of contemporary photography from artists working within 300 miles of Pittsburgh

Two saucy, abstract fables on the longing and laboring female body

An online exhibition looking at a selection of work from Rafael Soldi

Channel Silver Eye visits the tropics

An online exhibition looking at a selection from Panas' series *Holding On*

Three artists play within the framework of horror to create palpable senses of dread

Animals, myth and ritual take center stage in our winter screening

Abstract photographs that blur the boundaries between real and imagained worlds

Photographs playing with space and form—making us keenly aware of the places we inhabit

A cross disciplinary creative inquiry

Celebrate the passage of time, images that haunt us in our sleep, and harvest what light remains

A screening event with themes of loss, sport, magic, and black labor

Complex and tender portraits about subtle ways we signal our identities to the world

A series of provocative self-portraits exploring race, family archives, and identity

This third installment in the Channel Silver Eye microcinema series features a selection of contemporary videos that explore themes of representation and artifice in the mediated experience.

Fellowship 18 features solo exhibitions from our International Award and Keystone Award winners, selected from an open call for entries. Now in its 18th year, this competition recognizes both rising talent and established photographers.

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Exploring Media and Melancholy in Feminist Experimental Film

McLean’s artwork is an investigation into human and nonhuman emotional relationships, and an exploration of the effects of our increasing immersion into digital culture.

Sismos sets out not to recover an “authentic” identity hidden by the circumstances of the artists birth in Lima, Peru and adoption in 1979

A collaborative exhibition by Sandra Gould Ford and LaToya Ruby Frazier

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s seminal series on the painful effects of industrial decline her hometown of Braddock, PA

Silver Eye celebrates its grand reopening and move to the Penn Avenue Arts District in the Bloomfield-Garfield neighborhood with an exhibition that explores and celebrates the history, current moment, and future of photography in Pittsburgh.

Fellowship 17 features solo exhibitions from our International Award and Keystone Award winner, juried by Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator of the Center for Creative Photography.

Materials & Processes: Imaging the Elements of Photography focuses on a fascinating trend of works that use elements of photographic tools and processes as the subject matter of the images.

Megan Ledbetter’s solo exhibition Homo Bulla is a study of surfaces and life cycles in the American South

Daniel Coburn’s solo exhibition The Hereditary Estate explores the dark undercurrent of the artist's’ family history through a series of lyrical and mysterious photographs.

This year's Auction featured an extraordinary selection of vintage and contemporary work representing a long list of illustrious talent - from revered masters and prominent mid-career photographers to an exceptional group of young, emerging artists.

Fellowship 16 features solo exhibitions from our International Award winner Ka-Man Tse and Keystone Award winner Aaron Blum

Golden Hour: Thoughts on the Contemporary Photo Book is a new and experimental exhibition presented by Silver Eye Center for Photography.

Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity seeks to distinguish the historical and contemporary expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon in popular culture.

London/Pittsburgh is Mark Neville's first solo exhibition in Western Pennsylvania, and consists of twelve works from two significant projects, presented side-by-side.

A World Imagined features the work of Kelli Connell (Chicago, IL) and Sara Macel (Brooklyn, NY) who each explore the emotional and psychological terrain of personal relationships.

Fellowship 15 features solo exhibitions from our International Award winner Christopher Meerdo and Keystone Award winner Matthew Conboy

The seven artists in this exhibition use photography to explore different notions about home as a physical place with deep emotional connections.

47 Extraordinary Photographers, Compiled by Leading Curators, Scholars, and Critics