Keisha Scarville's UOVO Prize Installation Opens at Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum will unveil Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water on May 8, 2026, an outdoor installation on the Iris Cantor Plaza. Scarville, a Brooklyn-born photographer and recipient of the 2026 UOVO Prize, transforms personal loss into communal memory and celebrates the Caribbean diaspora. The work combines photography, collage, and archival materials, exploring migration, memory, and absence. Born in 1975 to Guyanese parents, Scarville draws on family history. The installation features vinyl reproductions of black-and-white photographs and still lifes on the museum's stoop and walls. It will be on view through October 2026.