Janet Zweig is an artist who makes public art, sculpture, and visual books. Her sculpture and books have been exhibited widely in such places as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Exit Art, PS1 Museum, the Walker Art Center, and Cooper Union. Her most recently installed public works include a 1200' frieze at the Prince Street subway station for New York's Arts for Transit, two sculptures for a bridge in St. Louis, and a system-wide interactive project for the Light Rail train stations in Minneapolis which incorporates the work of over a hundred Minnesotans. She has installed public artworks at the University of Minnesota, in Santa Fe for New Mexico Arts, and in the Bronx for New York's Percent for Art. She is currently working on public projects for Seattle, Santa Monica, Milwaukee, Queens, NY, and Huntington, L.I. She has won numerous awards including the Rome Prize Fellowship and two NEA fellowships, as well as residencies at PS1 Museum and the MacDowell Colony. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1982 and at Yale University from 1991 to 2000. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.