[1] A book was published on the project, "In Smog and Thunder", and a faux documentary film about the war was made with the same name and directed by Sean Meredith, with voice over work by Paul Zaloom.
His series of landscape paintings of California's 33 state prisons was exhibited at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum in 2001.
In 2002, Birk expanded this project by depicting all of New York State's maximum security prisons in the style of Hudson River School artists from the 19th century.
The works were loosely based on Gustave Dore's series of prints for "Gargantua and Pantagruel", and featured caricatures of then President Trump, surrounded by lackeys.
In 2022, following the riots of Jan. 6, Birk completed as series of paintings which reimagine scenes from American History to replace those currently on display in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
Arion Press of San Francisco published an edition of AA Milne's book "House at Pooh Corner" in 2024, with more than 60 illustrations by Birk.
Birk's illustrations imagined the that Christopher Robin, rather than being a 5 year old boy, is now an aging, unhoused person on the streets of an unnamed American city.
In 2007 Birk was awarded an Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
While there, he researched and worked on an upcoming project of "A Proposal for a Monument to the Constitution of the United States", which was later purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.