James Enos

James A. Enos is an interdisciplinary artist and designer with a background in architecture whose research engages issues of critical practice in an effort to understand change. His current projects are concerned with ideas of personal topology and systems representing complex experiences of urbanization. He is interested in patterns of architecture and extraction, as well as the multifaceted phenomenon of ports. Enos’s teaches graduate and undergraduate classes that study social, environmental, and cultural intersections across art and design.

James received his BS from Purdue University, M. Arch from The NewSchool of Architecture, and MFA from the University of California San Diego. He is a recipient of the 2013 San Diego Art Prize and has served as artist, director, and/or founder for several public projects including The Periscope Project, Drone Readymade, Exploring Engagement, Port Journeys, HyperCultural Passengers, WeTrees, and Port Futures / Social Logistics.

Select exhibitions and presentations of his work include the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture; Creative Time’s Living as Form, San Diego; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Asia Design Center, Gwangju; FRISE Künstlerhaus, Hamburg; HAVIC, Groningen; Zou-No-Hana Terrace, Yokohama; Spiral Art Center, Tokyo; Forum Box, Helsinki; Modern Art Museum, Shanghai; Pier 2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai; and, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. His projects have been covered by WIRED DESIGN, Design Boom, Hyperallergic, Architext, Architizer, Architect Magazine, KCET’s ARTBOUND, Planning Perspectives, The Union Tribune, HOW/NOW, City Beat and others.