Janet Biggs
artist, b. 1959.
Janet Biggs is a research-based interdisciplinary artist known for immersive work in video, sound and performance. Merging the fields of art, science, and technology, Biggs’s practice examines the thresholds of physical experience, endurance, and adaptation. Her work has taken her to both polar regions, into active volcanos and areas of conflict). Biggs has worked with institutions from NOAA to NASA and CERN and collaborated with high energy nuclear physicists, neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, and astrophysicists. In 2020, Biggs sent a project up to the International Space Station as part of MIT Media Lab.
Biggs is a Guggenheim Fellow (2018), and a recipient of the Visionary Woman Award (2023), the NYSCA Electronic Media and Film Program Award (2011), the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2004), and the NEA Fellowship Award (1989). Reviews of her work have appeared in , ArtForum , ARTNews, Art in America, Flash Art , and ArtReview , and many others. Her work been exhibited and collected at museums and institutions worldwide, including solo presentations at ; The Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT); the Spencer Museum of Art; Theater; United Nations Headquarters; Neuberger Museum of Art; SCAD Museum of Art; Blaffer Art Museum; Musee d'art contemporain de Montréal; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Janet Biggs is a member of the ’s cultural incubator, , and The Explorers Club. Biggs works with , New York City, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland, and , Washington, DC.
