Amy Balkin is an artist whose work involves land and the geopolitical relationships that frame it. Her solo and collaborative projects, including Public Smog and Invisible-5, consider political and legal borders and systems, environmental justice, and the allocation of common-pool resources. Balkin received her MFA from the Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited internationally, and her project This is the Public Domain was included in the publication Situation (MIT Press, 2009).