Janet Davidson-Hues was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned her BA from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC (1966), an MA from Columbia University in New York, NY (1972), and an MFA from the University of Kansas (1992). She is a former assistant professor of art at Indiana State University, where she taught visual and performance art. She has participated in more than 100 international and national exhibitions and has given lectures at various universities and art centers, speaking about her work and issue-oriented art.
Janet Davidson-Hues investigates and combines language and image in order to set up a tension between the verbal and the visual in her paintings and prints. She also works in video, audio, performance, and installation.