New-York Historical Society, New York
March 29, 2024 - August 18, 2024
Drawing on research into New-York Historical’s vast Museum and Library collections, Beatrice Glow reckons with the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam from local and global perspectives. Working in conversation with a group of culture bearers, artists, and scholars whose heritages were impacted by the Dutch colonial enterprise, Glow is creating a series of seven parade float maquettes that envision an alternative commemoration. The small VR-sculpted and 3D-printed sculptures will be complemented by Glow’s interpretations of decorative arts collection objects, such as embroidered textiles and gilded baby rattles that reflect ideas of social and cultural power. Organized by Rebecca Klassen, curator of material culture, New-York Historical Society
Eltonhead Manor Room, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
August 2023 - June 2024
Glow’s images narrate how trade, enslavement, and exploitation are intertwined in Maryland’s tobacco industry. Using historic sources, Glow mapped the tobacco trade from plantations in the United States to Chinese ports […] Through a smoky montage of this history, Glow’s scarf signals the exploitative effect of Chesapeake trade on a global scale.
Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco
October 27, 2022 — January 30, 2023
Multimedia artist Beatrice Glow kicks off Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation inaugural “Apothecary of Ideas” with a site-responsive installation, reimagining the Apothecary and the Vestry spaces as historic period rooms based on a fictional family, Empire of Smoke quadrillionaires (EoS 10^15), rescuing their prized possessions from an uninhabitable Earth, circa 2068. Composed of hauntingly luxurious artifacts, including a range of hand-embroidered textiles, scent experiences, videos, as well as VR-sculpted and 3D-printed objects, the collection blurs the boundaries of fact and fiction and explores the language of luxury and power.
Baltimore Museum of Art | May 15, 2022 — October 2, 2022
“Glow delves into the unseen and unsavory sociohistorical and ecological realities underlying the tobacco industry’s veneer of luxury through her digitally printed and embroidered silk textiles, VR-sculpted and 3D-printed objects, watercolors, and scent experiences.”
Installation of VR-generated 3D printed and hand-painted sculptures, video and an artist book at 601 Artspace, New York, as part of Collaborative Survival group exhibition curated by Danni Shen.
Olfactory and sculptural installation at Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center exploring the scents of colonial commerce and geopolitical land exchanges.
A fake perfume boutique in a shopping mall realized with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile that revealed how plants shaped world history by connecting the founding myths of the Americas to the search for spices.
Site-specific installation and activations at the James B. Duke House, a Manhattan millionaire-row mansion financed by the revenue of the American Tobacco Company.
An installation at Taipei Contemporary Art Center comprising of digital prints on silk, embroidery, a betel nut plant, photographs and video work responding to wild flowers growing around, and within, historical forts that suggest a narrative of exploitation, regeneration and resilience
Exhibition, lab and classroom at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
Site-responsive installation aboard the Lilac Museum Steamship berthed at Pier 25, Hudson River, New York, reimagining transpacific and underwater interconnections
An archive of objects and papers collected from a two-year journey retracing the escape route of a mid-19th century Chinese coolie that took the form of an itinerant installation that traveled to various South American cultural and educational institutions