David Birkin

David Birkin is a British-born artist based in New York and London. He studied at Oxford University, the Slade School of Fine Art, and was a fellow on the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. Past projects have included a collaboration with the courtroom sketch artist at Guantanamo, a visual rendering of identification numbers from the Iraqi civilian casualty database, and skywriting an extract of CIA legalese above Manhattan.

Birkin has written for publications including Creative Time Reports, Cabinet Magazine, Ibraaz, the ACLU, and the Harvard Advocate, and was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Art & Law Program, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's studios on Governors Island. He has exhibited internationally at the Courtauld Institute, Photographers’ Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, HotShoe, Cøpperfield, and Trolly Books, London; Baibakov Art Projects and the Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow; Photomonth, Krakow; the Kunstihoone, Tallinn; the Benaki Museum, Athens; Centre d'Art et Photographie, Lectoure; MUDAM Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; FotoFest, Houston; and the Whitney ISP, New York. His solo exhibition Mouths at the Invisible Event opened in 2015 at The Mosaic Rooms, London.

Birkin was th...

Whitney Independent Study Program
Slade School of Fine Art
University of Oxford

2015 Memory Lab | MUDAM Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg
2015 Et Mon Droit | Cøpperfield, London
2015 Athens Photo Festival | Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2015 L’Été Photographique | Centre d’Art et Photographie de Lectoure, France
2015 Sensor | FotoFest, Houston, USA
2015 Mouths at the Invisible Event | The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK
2015 COBRA 1.7 | 71a Gallery, London, UK
2014 ISP Exhibition | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2013 Expo 1: New York | MoMA PS1 Rockaway Dome, New York, USA
2013 Lieux de Mémoire | Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London, UK
2013 Some Fifty Miles of Concrete Pavement | (Art) Amalgamated, New York, USA
2013 Artist in Residence Exhibition | NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, USA
2012 The World in London | The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2012 Celeste Prize Exhibition | Museo Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
2012 Moments of Reprieve | Paradise Row, London, UK
2012 VLA Art & Law Residency Exhibition | Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, USA
2012 Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed | The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2012 Photographers Transcending the Print | Photo 50, London, UK
2011 Mirror Gaze | Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
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