Janet Biggs

Who is Janet Biggs?

Janet Biggs is an American artist, known for her work in video, photography and performance art. Biggs lives and works in New York City.

Biggs' video works often include images of individuals engaged in obsessive and extreme activities. She has worked with miners underground, champion wrestlers, speed-obsessed bikers, synchronized swimmers, arctic explorers, sulfur miners inside an active volcano, and camel herders in the Taklamakan desert. Her earlier video work dealt with issues of psychosis and psychotropic drugs.

In addition to videos, her recent work includes multi-discipline performances, often including multiple large-scale videos, live musicians, and athletes.

The Tampa Museum of Art presented a survey of Biggs' work in 2011. Biggs' video work has been recently presented at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Glaskasten Marl Sculpture Museum, the Mint Museum, the Gibbes Museum of Art, the McNay Museum, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Videonale 13 and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.