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\n\tKeisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum\u2018s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. <\/p>\n
\n\tThrough the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be featured on the facade of the art storage space operated by Uovo in Bushwick.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cReceiving the 2026 UOVO prize deeply affirms my creative journey,\u201d Scarville told ARTnews<\/em> in an email. \u201cI have profound respect for all the previous recipients, so joining such an inspiring group of artists is an immense honor. Because I grew up in Brooklyn, this award feels especially meaningful, connecting my roots to my evolving practice. I believe it will open new possibilities, encouraging material exploration, collaboration, and experimentation. It also inspires me to deepen my connection within the community that shaped me.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHer presentation for the Brooklyn Museum, due to go on view in the institution\u2019s plaza on May 8, will be titled \u201cWhere Salt Meets Black Water.\u201d Curated by Pauline Vermare, the show will see the plaza covered in vinyl reproductions of Scarville\u2019s photographs from her \u201cMama\u2019s Clothes\u201d series, for which Scarville donned the patterned textiles and garments belonging to her late mother Alma. The title of the Brooklyn Museum presentation is a reference the dark creeks found in Guyana, the nation from which Scarville\u2019s parents hailed.<\/p>\n \n\tAnne Pasternak, the museum\u2019s director, said in a statement that the presentation will act as \u201ca tribute to the Caribbean community whose creativity, traditions, and histories have profoundly shaped Brooklyn\u2019s cultural life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Brooklyn Museum show\u2014which also features a reproduction of a photo belonging to Scarville\u2019s mother that the artist did not shoot\u2014comes as she prepares to publish a photo book with MACK.<\/p>\n \n\tNow in its sixth edition, the Brooklyn Musuem\u2019s Uovo Prize has accrued a reputation for helping elevate artists who go on to achieve greater success. Past winners include John Edmons, Oscar yi Hou, Melissa Joseph, Baseera Khan, and Suneil Sanzgiri.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/keisha-scarville-brooklyn-museum-uovo-prize-1234777130\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Keisha-Scarville_credit_ana_dias-1-1.jpg?w=1024″] Keisha Scarville, a photographer known for her work about people in diaspora and identities in flux, is the 2026 winner of the Brooklyn Museum\u2018s Uovo Prize, the institution announced on Thursday. Through the award, Scarville will take home $25,000 and receive a Brooklyn Museum commission. Her work will also be featured on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1822405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1822405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1822405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1822405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1822405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}