David Birkin

David Birkin
Born	David Tristan Birkin 1977 (age 39–40) London, U.K.
Alma mater	University of Oxford University College London
Spouse(s)	Eloise Fornieles (divorced)
Parent(s)	Andrew Birkin (father)
Relatives	Judy Campbell (grandmother) Jane Birkin (aunt) Anno Birkin (half-brother) Charlotte Gainsbourg (cousin) Lou Doillon (cousin)

David Tristan Birkin (born 1977) is a British artist working in photography, performance, and sculpture.

Birkin comes from a family of artists that includes his father Andrew Birkin (writer and film director), his aunt Jane Birkin (singer and actress), his grandmother Judy Campbell, his cousins Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, and his late brother Anno Birkin (poet and musician).

Birkin grew up between London and New York City, eventually returning to the UK to study human sciences and anthropology at Oxford University (1996–1999). He worked as an actor in film and theatre, including productions for the Royal National Theatre, Peter Hall Company, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and narrated the English translation of the 1953 film Les statues meurent aussi at the French Institute in London.

In 2009, Birkin began a postgraduate degree at the Slade School of Fine Art (University College London) with postgraduate funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He received a bursary from the National Media Museum and was awarded the Sovereign Art Prize for his Diptych exhibited at the Barbican Centre in 2010. In 2011, Birkin was graduated from Slade with an MA in Fine Art. He exhibited as part of the Saatchi Gallery's 2011 New Sensations exhibition. He curated an exhibition at the Tallinn Kunstihoone in Estonia titled Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography, featuring works by Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Ori Gersht, Idris Khan, Eleonora Rossi, Indrė Šerpytytė, and Taryn Simon.