David Birkin is an artist based in New York, US. He is a visiting fellow at University of the Arts London, UK, where he co-founded the transdisciplinary research platform Visible Justice. His skywriting project Severe Clear, a collaboration with the American Civil Liberties Union, has been shown at The Mosaic Rooms, London; Casino, Luxembourg; Benaki Museum, Athens; and Whitney Museum ISP, New York. He will be exhibiting in ‘Hidden States’ at BALTIC, Gateshead, in 2020.