Since 2020, the Brooklyn Museum has recognized the work of emerging Brooklyn-based artists with the UOVO Prize. Awarded annually, the prize includes a solo exhibition at the Museum, a fifty-by-fifty-foot public art installation on the facade of UOVO’s facility in Bushwick, and a $25,000 unrestricted cash grant.
“The UOVO Prize enabled people to see me, but it gave me space to see me, too. It gave me the support I needed to witness my creative abilities. And that is incommensurable.”
—Baseera Khan
The fourth annual UOVO Prize was awarded to Suneil Sanzgiri, an artist, researcher, and filmmaker whose exhibition will debut later this year. Previous UOVO Prize winners are John Edmonds, Baseera Khan, and Oscar yi Hou. Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon is on view in the Brooklyn Museum’s Ingrassia Gallery of Contemporary Art through September 17, 2023, and yi Hou’s work Flock together, aka: a mural family portrait (2022) is on view at UOVO’s Bushwick facility until July 2023.
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