Janet Biggs is among a substantial group of artists who turned to video and video installation in the early 1990s. Trained in painting and sculpture she has exhibited since 1987. Biggs is known for a body of work centering on the image of the horse. Her multiple-channel installations,condensed yet epic, have garnered her a strong critical reputation and numerous museum exhibitions, as well as a position that places her work in the lineage of post-feminist discourse. In earlier video installations, Biggs has examined the way society constructs gender, often using the image of the horse as an emblem of female sexual sublimation and masculine power. Biggs has focused on themes ranging from the representation of desire and pleasure to issues of spectatorship and aging. She has broadened this inquiry into questions of power and control by drawing connections between social and pharmacological prescriptions on behavior.

Biggs' works have been shown at numerous galleries, museums and public institutions throughout the United States and in Europe, including solo exhibitions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as Dwellan-Lingering Images, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Denmark, Venden Varassa, Vantaa Art Museum, Finland, and Aquaria, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Austria. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Wexner Center Media Arts Program, Anonymous Was a Woman, Sony Electronics Inc., and Panasonic.