James A. Enos is an interdisciplinary artist and designer with a background in architecture whose research examines systems and change from the personal to the planetary. His work uses fieldwork and cultural analysis to trace patterns of architecture, infrastructure, and logistics, with a focus on ports. For decades, he has developed projects that address the intersections of social, environmental, and cultural forces across art, design, and urbanism.
He is the recipient of the 2013 San Diego Art Prize and has served as artist, director, and/or founder of several notable public programs including The Periscope Project, Drone Readymade, Exploring Engagement, Port Journeys, HyperCultural Passengers, WeTrees, and Port Futures / Social Logistics. His projects have been recognized by WIRED Design, Design Boom, Hyperallergic, Architizer, Architect Magazine, KCET’s Artbound, and Planning Perspectives, among others.
Select exhibitions and presentations of his work include the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture; Creative Time’s Living as Form; Pacific Standard Time’s LA/LA at the 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.
Enos holds a BS from Purdue University, an M.Arch from The NewSchool of Architecture & Design, and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and Design at the University of Georgia, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on theory and contemporary practice.