Janet Biggs is primarily known for her work in video, photography, and performance. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Biggs's work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations and often navigates the territory between art and science. He has captured events like kayakers performing a synchronized ballet in arctic waters and sulfur miners inside an active volcano. His recent projects have explored memory creation and loss from personal, physical, and scientific perspectives. Biggs' work has taken her to conflict areas in the Horn of Africa and to Mars (as a member of Crew 181 at the Mars Desert Research Station). He has collaborated with neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists, Yemeni refugees, and a robot.
Photo by Cassandra Klos