The Brooklyn Museum has announced Keisha Scarville as the winner of its sixth UOVO Prize. Scarville, who investigates themes of migration, memory, loss, and absence through a practice encompassing photography, collage, and archival material, will receive an unrestricted $25,000 cash grant as well as a public exhibition at the museum’s Iris Cantor Plaza, and a commission to create a large-scale work on the façade of UOVO’s art-storage facility, located in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood.

Born in Brooklyn to Guyanese immigrant parents, Scarville makes work that reflects her lived experience as a person of Caribbean heritage in the borough. Her show at the Iris Cantor Plaza is being curated by Pauline Vermare will feature vinyl reproductions of black-and-white photographs from the artist’s series “Mama’s Clothes,” for which she posed wearing textiles and garments belonging to her late mother, Alma. Titled “Where Salt Meets Black Water,” in reference to the dark creeks of her parents’ home country, the exhibition will open on May 8.