Selected Works
Textures of Time
(2026)
Inspired by underwater concretions held in the collections of the Western Australia Shipwreck Museum, and exploring how time, power and value sediment across centuries, Beatrice Glow reinterpreted artifacts from the Batavia shipwreck, blending 3D-scanned objects, ecofacts (Quigley, 2025), and machine-generated digital artifacts.
Something Good Will Bloom (2025)
Series of glass vases inspired by resilient botanical life that thrive in formerly militarized sites in Indonesia, the U.S., Ghana, and Taiwan. Lidless and translucent, the former symbol of violence is clarified by light and transmuted into a new vessel for an alternative to emerge.
Finding Magic Turtle: Unpacking the Four Continents (2024)
Drawing from this visual history that has impacted human-nature and intercultural relations, artists Beatrice Glow and Jakari turned the animals featured in the historical prints into game pieces in the Finding Magic Turtle floor game, where the animals of the Four Continents visit Oceania.
The Collection of the EOS (2023)
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, rescuing their prized possessions from an uninhabitable Earth, circa 2068.
Spice Roots/Routes (2016)
In Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes, Glow traces environmental degradation, wealth inequality, and the ramifications of colonialism to their historical roots in the early modern spice trade. The pursuit of spices, which she calls “the petroleum of the 17th century,” motivated conquest and colonization across Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America.
Rhunhattan:
A Tale of Two Islands (2016-WIP)
Community-centered project connecting the shared experiences of the Bandanese of Indonesia and the Lunaapeew/Lunaape/Lenape (Indigenous people of Manhattan), whose fates crossed paths when the Dutch traded Manhattan for the English colony of Rhun in the Banda Islands to monopolize the nutmeg trade during the 17th century Spice Wars.
Mannahatta VR (2016)
Artist Beatrice Glow and The Wayfinding Project at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University partnered with Alexandre Girardeau to build Mannahatta VR, an interactive virtual reality experience which brings together the past and present of one Broadway block.
Floating Library (2014)
A temporary autonomous zone aboard the Lilac Museum Steamship berthed at Pier 25 on the Hudson River in New York City, set under open skies for fearless dreaming. Over 70 volunteers, artists, visionaries and 4,000 visitors convened around performances, roundtables and workshops that shone a spotlight on reclaiming public space, maker culture, environmental concerns, and community engagement.
Retracing Coolie Geography (2007)
In the last few years, I have traveled through North America, Asia and Latin America, learning about my family in the diaspora. On this road, I was guided by the moth — and then by grasshoppers, bees, blue flies and the "taparaco" owl butterfly —, to traverse the Andean highlands, the Amazons, the deserts, sites of slave labor such as sugar plantations and guano islands, as well as carry out detective work in cemeteries.