David Tristan Birkin was born on 21 November 1977 and is a British artist working with photography and performance art.
12 Facts About David Birkin
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David Birkin is a Senior Lecturer at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
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David Birkin has worked as a motion picture and theatre actor.
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David Birkin studied human sciences and anthropology at Oxford University.
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David Birkin completed an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art with a scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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David Birkin is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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David Birkin was a fellow of the Art and Law Program in New York and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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David Birkin was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo in 2013, the MacDowell Colony in 2015, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's studios on Governors Island in 2016, and the Camargo Foundation in 2020.
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David Birkin has published photo-essays and articles in Frieze, Cabinet, Creative Time Reports, Ibraaz, Disegno, The Harvard Advocate, and the American Civil Liberties Union blog, on subjects ranging from a legally protected species of iguana roaming freely at Guantanamo Bay detention camp to Marilyn Monroe's 1945 photoshoot at an army drone factory in California.
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David Birkin's show "Mouths at the Invisible Event" at The Mosaic Rooms in London in 2015 was described by Hyperallergic as "a methodical examination of the language, aesthetics, and ethos of modern warfare [that] ultimately makes the emotional reality and Kafkaesque lunacy of such a system hit home".
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David Birkin has worked as an actor in film, television and theatre.
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David Birkin appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation: in the 1990 episode "Family" as Rene Picard, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's nephew; and the 1992 episode "Rascals", as a young Jean-Luc Picard.