Janet Biggs - Video Artist

Janet Biggs lives and works in New York City. Her videos, video installations, and performances are condensed yet epic. She has captured such events as speeding motorcycles on the Bonneville Salt Flats, horses galloping on treadmills at Cornell University’s veterinary school, Olympic synchronized swimmers in their attempts to defy gravity, and icebergs floating in Iceland’s Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon.

She received her undergraduate degree from Moore College of Art, and pursued graduate studies at Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited, among other institutions, at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island; Vantaa Art Museum, Finland; Linkopings Konsthall, Passagen, Sweden; and the Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Austria.

Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants including the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Anonymous Was a Woman Award. Her work is in public collections including the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina; and the New Britain Museum of Art, Connecticut.