Janet Biggs

Photo of the artist filming in Antarctica. Photo credit: Robert Cmar

Janet Biggs’s work focuses on extreme landscapes and situations, drawing connections between physical terrains and psychological, societal, or political dynamics. She has had solo exhibitions, film screenings, and performances at the SCAD Museum of Art, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Jeu de Paume, Taubman Museum of Art, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Blaffer Museum of Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Tampa Museum of Art, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, among many others.

Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants, including the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, Moore College of Art & Design 2022 Visionary Woman Award, Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts Award, Media Arts Assistant Fund Grant, Arctic Circle Fellowship/Residency, Art Matters, Inc., Wexner Center Media Arts Program Residency, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award. Her works are in the collections of the SCAD Museum of Art, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (Ruhr Kunst Museen), Tampa Museum of Art, High Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Mint Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, and the New Britain Museum of Art. Biggs lives and works in New York.

She was interviewed previously on Yale University radio in 2021.

Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Antarctica, December 4, 2021), 2022-24 Single-channel 4K video with spatial sound Running time – 6:12 minutes Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858), 2025 Three-channel 4K video with spatial sound 10:14 minutes Photo credit: Mikhail Mishin Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC Janet Biggs, Eclipse (Amazon, September 7, 1858), 2025 Three-channel 4K video with spatial sound 10:14 minutes Photo credit: Mikhail Mishin Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, NYC