Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet, New-York Historical Society, New York. March 29 - August 18, 2024
Beatrice Glow: The Collection of the EoS 10^15, Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco. October 27, 2022 - January 30, 2023
Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. May 15 - October 2, 2022
Forts and Flowers, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei. October 19 – November 10, 2019
Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes. Duke House Exhibition Series, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York. March 22–September 21, 2017
Lenapeway, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York. October 10 - December 9, 2016
Aromérica Parfumeur, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago. (August 13-October 9, 2016) and Concepción (October 21 - November 27, 2016)
on the subversion of opacity, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Artists Alliance Inc., New York (Two-person exhibit with Arianna Carossa curated by Alessandro Facente). June 10 – July 10, 2016
The Wayfinding Project, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, New York. March 24 - December 10, 2015
Rhunhattan [Tearoom], Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, New York. September 15 – October 25, 2015
Floating Library, USCGC Lilac, Pier 25, New York. September 6 – October 3, 2014
Mediums and Messengers, curated by Danni Shen, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence. February 16 - March 17, 2023
A Thousand Secrets, curated by Mae Miller, apexart, New York. June 3 - July 31, 2022
Women’s Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, Tarrytown. May 26 - September 26, 2022. Catalog.
Collaborative Survival, curated by Danni Shen, 601Artspace, New York. June 18 - August 15, 2021
PALA, Westfries Museum, Hoorn. Online multimedia exhibition. May 8, 2021-Present
Returning to the Source, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx. January 19 - March 29, 2020. Digital catalog.
The Land On Which We Gather, Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Center, Oneonta. September 3 – October 18, 2019
Fluid Kinships: Global Asian-Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art, curated by the Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX), the Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR) and the Indigenous Art Research Group (IARG), Concordia University, Montreal. June 12 – September 11, 2019
<Decode> Artists Policing Data, curated by Jayanthi Moorthy and Daria Dorosh, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York. November 28, 2018 - January 19, 2019. Catalog.
As far as the heart can see, curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York. 2018
Empathy, curated by Gabriel de Guzman, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn. 2018
Banda Islands, curated by Wim Manuhutu and Sadiah Boonstra, Galeri Nasional, Jakarta. September 20 - October 4, 2017
Honolulu Biennial "Middle of Now | Here", curated by Ngahiraka Mason, Honolulu. March 8 - May 8, 2017. Catalog.
2024 National Endowment for the Arts, Grants for Arts Projects
2023 Rockefellers Brothers Fund, Culpeper Arts & Culture Grant
2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship Finalist, Media and Film
2018-2019 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2017-2018 American Arts Incubator, a program of ZERO1 and U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Finalist
2015 Wave Hill Van Lier Visual Art Fellowship
2013 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant Recipient for the Floating Library Project
2013-2017 Visiting Scholar at Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University
2012 Emerging Artist Fellow, Hemispheric New York Performance Network
2008-9 US Fulbright Scholar, Performance Art, Peru
2024-2025 Australian Research Council-funded project “Global People: Mobilising Australian evidence in new histories of the Dutch East India Company.” Perth, Australia (forthcoming)
2022-2024 Artist-in-Residence at New-York Historical Society with support from the Culpeper Arts and Culture Grant, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York, NY
2022 Artist-in-Residence at Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2021 Visiting Artist-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College with a studio residency at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2019-2020 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace with visiting artist status at LaGuardia Studio, Department of Studio Art, New York University
2018-2019 Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program
2016-2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University
2016 LES Studio Program, a program of Artists Alliance Inc, New York
2015 Winter Workspace, Wave Hill, Bronx
Artist Books
The Collection of the EoS10^15. New York: Beatrice Glow, Jeong-A Kim, 2023 (third edition). 116 pages.
Aromérica Parfumeur. New York: Beatrice Glow, 2018. 132 pages.
Taparaco Myth. Lima: Beatrice Glow, 2009. Trilingual publication in Spanish, Chinese and English. 218 pages.
Journals, Blogs and Essays
Glow, Beatrice. “Art, Community and Technology in the Andes,” ArtPlaceAmerica blog, May 22, 2018. https://www.artplaceamerica.org/blog/art-community-and-technology-andes
Glow, Beatrice. “A Conversation with Beatrice Glow.” The Banda Islands, Hidden Histories & Miracles of Nature. Edited by Jan Russell. Jakarta: Kabar Media, 2017.
Glow, Beatrice. “Circulating Undercurrents.” Cultural Politics, Vol 13, issue 2, July (2017).
Glow, Beatrice. “Banda “Spice” Islands.” Our Ocean Guide. Edited by Map Office. Venice: Lightbox Publishing, 2017.
“What is Chino? Memories and Imaginaries of Asian Latin America,” post: Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives, Museum of Modern Art. September 30, 2014.
Mannahatta VR (2016-2019) is an interactive VR experience created in collaboration with Alexandre Girardeau and has been presented during the following events: Séance Fiction, curated by Kevin Wu, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, 2022; Looking Back | Looking Forward: Culture in a Changing America, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2018; Oceanus, curated by Vanessa Albury, Secret Theater, Queens, 2017; The Wayfinding Project: Closing Showcase, New York University, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, Dec. 8, 2016; Exploring Future Reality 2016, organized by NYC Media Lab, Viacom White Box Theatre, New York, 2016.
Panelist, Fragrance of the Future, Night of Ideas, co-organized by Villa Albertine, KQED and San Francisco Public Library, March 2, 2023
Panelist, A map is a story too; a story we can only tell, if we tell it together, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, online event, October 21, 2023
Lecture and workshop, Art and Power, Stanford University, Palo Alto, May 31, 2023
Lecture and workshop, Aromatic Realities, Stanford University, Palo Alto, April 18, 2023
Visiting Artist, Center for Visual Arts, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, September 15, 2022
Artist talk and workshop, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, June 5, 2022
Keynote Speaker, 5th Annual NYU Liberal Studies Student Colloquium, New York University, New York, March 25, 2022
Artist talk, Practice Lecture Series, MFA Art Practice Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, February 22, 2022
Artist talk, Beatrice Glow: Storytelling to Reworld, co-sponsored by the Diasporic Media Research Lab, York University and OCAD University, Toronto, November 9, 2021
Presenter, Care and the Institution & Decolonizing Pedagogies, Global Asian Art Exchange, GAX 2021. Online event, June 29, 2021
Panelist, Disrupting Imperial Geographies, Oceans as Archives Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 7, 2021
Moderator and presenter, Banda Commemoration, Oceans as Archives Symposium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 6, 2021
Artist talk, Aromatic Realities, Yale-NUS Artist-in-Residence Public Lecture, Singapore, February 24, 2021.
Artist talk, Climate Change and Contemporary Art Lecture Series, MassArt, Boston, November 17, 2020.
Artist talk, Searching for Inclusive Futures in the Capitalocene, as part of the Meteorological Mobilities exhibition, Apexart, New York, June 18, 2020.
EcoArt Salon, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, Nov 7, 2019.
Artist talk, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows Lunchbag Talk, National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., August 20, 2019.
Artist talk, Making Art in Allyship with Indigenous Communities, Center for Folklife and Heritage Speakers Series Presentation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., August 15, 2019.
Panelist, Expanding Perspectives: Our New York Histories, American Folk Art Museum, New York, June 19, 2019.
Presenter, Waterways: Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art, Artist Roundtable Discussion, Concordia University, Montreal, June 13, 2019.
Visiting Artist Lecture, Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice MFA program, City College New York, New York, April 3, 2019.
Panelist, Social Justice & Immersive Tech, Price Institute, Rutgers-University, Newark, November 7, 2018.
Artist talk, ACTivaciones: Arte, Comunidad y Tecnología, Co-presented by US Embassy Quito and Arte Actual FLACSO, Quito, March 14, 2018.
Artist talk, Rhunhattan: A Tale of Two Islands, curated by Wim Manuhutu and Nancy Jouwe, Fondation Perdu, Amsterdam, Dec 16, 2017.
Presenter and Convener, Empire of Smoke: the Legacy of Tobacco, Duke House Exhibition Series Program, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, New York, May 11, 2017.
PRINTED MEDIA
Maria Montt Strabucchi, Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, December 2023: Cover image and introduction.
Inger Leemans, Caro Verbeek, Neus Wijzer, Geuratlas van de lage landen. Amsterdam: Boom geschiedenis, October 2023
Keri Watson and Keidra Daniels Navaroli, This Is America: Re-Viewing the Art of the United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023: 41.
William Tullett, Inger Leemans, Hsuan Hsu, Stephanie Weismann, Cecilia Bembibre, Melanie A Kiechle, Duane Jethro, Anna Chen, Xuelei Huang, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Mark Bradley, Smell, History, and Heritage, The American Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 261–309: 296. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac147
Baltimore Museum of Art. BMA Today. Winter/Spring 2022, Issue #167: 9.
Chang, Alexandra. “A Necessary Future Together, Now: Contemporary Asian Women Artists in America" Asia Society Triennial catalogue. Asia Society, New York, NY, 2021: 45.
Chan, Angela. History-informed Futures. Vector, Issue 293, Spring 2021: 12-19.
Levin, Golan, and Tega Brain. Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design. Annotated, The MIT Press, 2021: 38.
Hsu, Hsuan. The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics. NYU Press, 2020: 100, 150.
Chang, Alexandra. “Unworlding and Becoming With: Beatrice Glow’s Rhunhattan” Urban Tribes, June 2019: 25-29.
Muller, Clara. "An Overview of Olfactory Art" Revue La Nez, Issue 4, October 2017: 103.
Chan, Hera. “What has the ocean seen?” LEAP Magazine, Fall 2017: 296-297.
Machida, Margo. “Pacific Itineraries: Islands and Oceanic Imaginaries in Contemporary Asian American Art.” Asian Diasporic Visual Culture in the Americas Journal, Special Issue 3, Spring 2017: 13-14.
Machida, Looser and Maravillas. “Island Worlds, Oceanic Diasporas, and Global Flows” Asian Diasporic Visual Culture in the Americas Journal, Special Issue 3, Spring 2017: 5.
Li, Yu-Chieh. “A Tale of Two Islands.” Asian Diasporic Visual Culture in the Americas Journal, Spring 2017: 221-225.
"Doble Cartel y más cultura en el Museo de Arte UN." Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, CO. 2009
"La Memoria Perdida." Revista Integracion. Lima, Peru. 2009
WEB PUBLICATIONS
Kennedy, Colleen. “Maryland’s Tobacco-Scented Past Emerges in Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears.” BMA Stories, September 19, 2022. https://stories.artbma.org/marylands-tobacco-scented-past-emerges-in-beatrice-glow-once-the-smoke-clears/
Somogyi, Fanny. “ A Landscape’s Embedded History.” Dovetail Magazine, September 8, 2022. https://dovetailmag.com/beatrice-glow-landscape-embedded-history/
Hsu, H. L, & Vázquez, D. J. (2022). The Materials of Art and the Legacies of Colonization: A Conversation with Beatrice Glow and Sandy Rodriguez. Journal of Transnational American Studies, 13(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/T813158585 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pv8w3xm
Kopf, Suzy. “BMA Curators Celebrate the Art of Collaboration.” Baltimore Magazine, August 11, 2022. https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/bma-curators-collaborate-to-exhibit-marginalized-voices/
Bury, Louis. “Imagining Climate Futures.” Hyperallergic, August 7, 2021. https://hyperallergic.com/663824/imagining-our-climate-future-artist-speculations-about-climate-change/
Hsu, Hsuan L. “Beatrice Glow and the Botanical Intimacies of Empire.” Panorama Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring 2021. editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/asian-american-art/beatrice-glow/.
Liberty, Megan N. "An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour," Brooklyn Rail, June 5, 2018
Sanhi, Manmeet. “Ecuador: Artist Weaves Art, Tech to Make Communal Tapestry” TeleSur, April 17, 2018
Dees, Sasha. Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes @ James D. Duke House, New York, Trendbeheer,com, July 6, 2017.
Burnet, Ian, Rhunhattan - A Tale of Two Islands, Spice Islands Blog, July 4, 2017.
Charisma, James. Honolulu’s New Biennial Makes the Case for Hawaiian Contemporary Art, Hyperallergic. April 14, 2017.
Pechman, Alexandra. Honolulu Biennial Is the Art Event Your Beach Vacation Needs. Conde Nast Traveler. Feb. 23, 2017
Bouza, Jeronimo. El Aroma de la Historia, La Voz de la Chimba, Ciudad Viva, No. 39. Oct. 2016.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, Still Searching...5. Visual Sovereignty and Standing Rock: Decolonizing Native Spaces of Appearance, Spaces of Appearance Series, Foto Museum Blog, Dec. 1, 2016.
Liberty, Megan N., The Documents Left Behind from Live Performances, Hyperallergic, Nov. 30, 2016
Eileen Reynolds, "Decolonizing New York", New York University News, October 10, 2016.
Interview with Maria Montt Strabucchi "Aromérica Parfumeur: Una Entrevista con Beatrice Glow" on ALADAA ( Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y África)
Interviewed by Danni Shen "Rhunhattan: An Interview with Beatrice Glow,"access date 10/15/2015
Jeong-A Kim, "Wave Hill's Sunroom Project Space - Final Exhibition for Fall 2015," The Rodin Less Traveled, Christie's Education, access date: 9/30/2015
ED Lab Studios, “Seen in NY: Floating Library,” New Learning Times at Columbia University, access date: 11/19/2014.
Lauren Price “Floating Library Closes Its Doors for the Season,” Downtown Magazine. 10/8/2014.
Emily Schmidt, “The Floating Library,” Architectural League’s Urban Omnibus. 10/1/2014.
Claire Voon, “A Floating Library on the Hudson,” Hyperallergic, 9/12/2014.
"Floating Library," Pop-Up Cultural Venue, Coming to Tribeca's Pier 25,” Tribeca Tribune. 8/21/2014.
Jeremiah Moss “All aboard the Floating Library at Hudson Pier,” Metro, 9/22/2014.
Annalisa Quinn “Book News: Floating Library To Open On New York's Hudson River,” National Public Radio. 9/3/14.
Oliver Morrison “A Place for Literary Pirates,” NY Press. 9/3/2014.
Wendy Joan Biddlecombe “Floating Library breathes new life into historic steamship,” Metro, 9/7/2014.
Kelli Dunham, “The Floating Library has arrived in Manhattan,” Refinery 29. 9/8/2014.
Jenn Carlson “A Floating Library is coming to the Hudson River,” The Gothamist, 8/20/14.
Sara Boboltz “This Is A Floating Library. Every City Should Probably Have One.” Huffington Post. 8/25/2014.
RADIO/TELEVISION
Kimberly Ruth, “Beatrice Glow, Art Uncovered,” Player FM. https://player.fm/series/art-uncovered/beatrice-glow. 7/30/2019.
Halford, Sarah. “Creative Resistance 2: “Audience” “ podcast mini-series affiliated with Center for Creative Activism. https://c4aa.org/2018/11/creative-resistance-1-audience/#undefined. Nov 7, 2018
CBS New York ‘Floating Library’ Coming To Historic Steamship Lilac
“Floating Library on America's Last Surviving Steamship,” WFTV Channel 9. 9/6/2014.
Kelsey Schappell, “Pop-up floating library will dock in the Hudson River this weekend” Interview, WFUV Radio, Fordham University. 9/4/2014.
The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Library; MoMA/Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection; Poets House, Archive; Museum of Chinese in America, Archive; Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Library; Stanford University Library
Participant, “New Approaches to the Peacock Room” Think Tank at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, November 2022
Consulted for The Atlantic Archives Project, a Dutch National Archives initiative in partnership with International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Cultural consultant, Oceania Gallery, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2022 - present
Visiting Faculty Member, Yale-NUS College, Media Arts for Just Futures, Spring 2021
Faculty member, mentor and thesis advisor, School of Visual Arts, New York, MFA Art Practice Program, 8-week course “Diasporic and Anti-colonial Art History, Theory and Practice,” 2019 - present.
Participant, “Indigenizing the Museum” workshop led by Rosanna Raymond and Maia Nuku, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, 2017
Co-Convener with Alice Ming Wai Jim and Lok Siu for the work group “Performing Asian / Americas Converging Movements” for Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro IX, Montreal, 2014
Founding member, Banda Working Group
Council member, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Arts Liaison, The Public History Project
New York University, BFA in Studio Art, magna cum laude, 2004‐2008
Languages: English (fluent); Mandarin Chinese (fluent); Taiwanese (proficient); Spanish (proficient); French (conversational)