Event details
May
1
Fung Public Lecture | Beatrice Glow, Hermitage Fellow and an artist-in-residence
Beatrice Glow is an American multidisciplinary artist of Taiwanese heritage. Stemming from drawing and painting, her practice spans sculpture, installations, textiles, olfactory experiences, virtual reality sculpting, and participatory performances. Bridging public history with just futures, she questions historical forms of visual and material culture, often in collaboration with Indigenous culture bearers, researchers and museums. to reinterpret historic collections through contemporary and community-based lenses.
Solo exhibitions include When Our Rivers Meet, New-York Historical Society (2024); Once the Smoke Clears, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2022); and Spice Routes/Roots, Duke House, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, NY (2017). Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, New York; Westfries Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Galeri Nasional Indonesia; and the Honolulu Biennial.
Currently, Glow is an Hermitage Fellow and an artist-in-residence with the “Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories” project, which involves researching the 17th-century Batavia shipwreck in Western Australia. She was the 2022-2024 Artist-in-Residence at the New-York Historical Society and a 2024 Creative Capital Awardee for her project Gilt/Guilt. Her recent projects have addressed aromatic cultural and trade histories and the global legacy of Dutch colonialism in partnership with culture bearers while utilizing digital technologies, such as virtual reality sculpting, to reflect shared visions.
Solo exhibitions include When Our Rivers Meet, New-York Historical Society (2024); Once the Smoke Clears, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2022); and Spice Routes/Roots, Duke House, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, NY (2017). Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, New York; Westfries Museum, Hoorn, Netherlands; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Galeri Nasional Indonesia; and the Honolulu Biennial.
Currently, Glow is an Hermitage Fellow and an artist-in-residence with the “Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories” project, which involves researching the 17th-century Batavia shipwreck in Western Australia. She was the 2022-2024 Artist-in-Residence at the New-York Historical Society and a 2024 Creative Capital Awardee for her project Gilt/Guilt. Her recent projects have addressed aromatic cultural and trade histories and the global legacy of Dutch colonialism in partnership with culture bearers while utilizing digital technologies, such as virtual reality sculpting, to reflect shared visions.
Speakers
Beatrice Glow | Hermitage Fellow and an artist-in-residence with the “Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories” project
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