Allison Biggs is an artist and poet working across installation, new media, and text. Her practice centers on the interior life — how memory distorts, how identity performs, how we locate ourselves within the places and systems that shape us.

Her work moves between the observational and the lyrical, drawing on perception, archetype, and the intimacies of selfhood to ask what it means to experience anything at all. Her installation series On (2024–ongoing) is a three-part immersive work exploring Archetypes, Memory, and Perception through projected text and ambient sound. Conceived as a triptych environment, the work invites viewers into a slowed, contemplative encounter with the structures underlying human experience. On is currently in development alongside her debut poetry collection Affairs of the Self — poems examining contemporary selfhood, surveillance, and the performance of identity.

Studies on Place is both a body of work and an ongoing practice. The original series — a collection of artist zines made from travel — documents place through the lens of memory, perception, and human experience, treating the encounter with a city or landscape as a kind of phenomenological record. The practice continues on Substack, where she publishes essays, poems, and reflections from the On series alongside wider meditations on eros, creativity, and the examined life.

She is a selected resident at Can Serrat International Art Center in El Bruc, Spain (October 2026), where she will develop On for installation and her poetry manuscript.

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