{{Short description|American photographer (born 1944)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Chris Enos | birth_name = Christine Enos | birth_date = August 21, 1944 | birth_place = Burbank, California, U.S. | education = Foothill College (AA), San Francisco State University (BA), San Francisco Art Institute (MFA), Universidad de las Américas, A.C. | occupation = Photographer, educator | website = {{URL|https://www.chrisenos.com/}} }}
'''Chris Enos''' (née '''Christine Enos'''; born 1944) is an American photographer and educator. She is known for her photography of still life and nudes. Enos has lived in California, Massachusetts, and New Mexico.
== Life and career == Chris Enos was born on August 21, 1944, in Burbank, California.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Camera/LrwaAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Chris+Enos+1944&dq=Chris+Enos+1944&printsec=frontcover |title=Camera, Issue 7–12 |date=1979 |publisher=C. J. Bucher |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="San Francisco Museum of Modern Art-1980">{{Cite book |last=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |first= |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/20_American_Artists/5_pPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Chris+Enos+1944&dq=Chris+Enos+1944&printsec=frontcover |title=20 American Artists: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 24-September 7, 1980 |date=1980 |publisher=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |pages=18 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Channing-1982">{{Cite book |last=Channing |first=Susan R. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Leather_District_and_the_Fort_Point/oJSZAAAAIAAJ |title=The Leather District and the Fort Point Channel: The Boston Photo-Documentary Project |date=1982 |publisher=Artists Foundation |isbn=978-0-932246-02-8 |pages=69 |language=en}}</ref> She attended Foothill College (AA degree, 1965) in Los Altos Hills, California; San Francisco State University (BA degree in sculpture, 1969); the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. (1967) in Mexico City; and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA degree, 1971).<ref name="San Francisco Museum of Modern Art-1980" /><ref name="Channing-1982" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Browne |first=Turner |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Macmillan_Biographical_Encyclopedia_of_P/Z9pUAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Chris+Enos+1944&dq=Chris+Enos+1944&printsec=frontcover |title=Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators |last2=Partnow |first2=Elaine |date=1983 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-02-517500-6 |pages=178 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Gaeddert-1971">{{Cite news |last=Gaeddert |first=Beth |date=May 11, 1971 |title=Young Photographer: Framing Eros With A Big Eye |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-independent-journal-young-photogra/192961888/ |access-date=2026-03-08 |work=Daily Independent Journal |pages=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Her earliest photographs were of the nudes, and her first camera was a borrowed Nikon.<ref name="Gaeddert-1971" /> She later shifted her focus to still life and documentary photography. By 1971, she was using a Graflex camera.<ref name="Gaeddert-1971" /> In 1976, Enos co-founded of the Photographic Resource Center (PRC), a nonprofit organization in Boston, Massachusetts.<ref name="Channing-1978">{{Cite book |last=Channing |first=Susan R. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Art_of_the_State/pdXbAAAAMAAJ |title=Art of the State: Massachusetts Photographers, 1975-1977 |date=1978 |publisher=Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation |isbn=978-0-89169-034-4 |pages=12 |language=en}}</ref> She served as the director of PRC from 1976 to 1981.<ref name="Channing-1978" /> Enos is an associate professor emeritus at University of New Hampshire.
Her photography work is in museum collections, including at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Horse and Nude, Chris Enos (American, born 1944) |url=https://high.org/collection/horse-and-nude/ |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=High Museum of Art |language=en-US}}</ref> the Philadelphia Museum of Art;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chris Enos, Untitled (Nude on Horseback), 1972 |url=https://www.philamuseum.org/objects/112280 |access-date= |website=Philadelphia Museum of Art |language=en}}</ref> the University of Texas at Austin;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Photography Collections Database: Chris Enos Photography Collection |url=https://research.hrc.utexas.edu/photopublic/fullDisplay.cfm?CollID=18125 |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=Harry Ransom Center's Photography Collection |publisher=University of Texas at Austin}}</ref> and the Harvard Art Museums in Massachusetts.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Chris Enos, California born 1944 |url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/34580 |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=Harvard Art Museums |language=en}}</ref>
== Exhibitions ==
* 1985, ''The Big Picture'', University Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio; including artists Chris Enos, Sandi Fellman, Jerry Burchard, Patrick Nagatani, Barbara Kasten, Rosamond Purcell, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, Robert Heinecken, Marsha Burns, Jack Welpott, Suda House, Luciano Franchi de Alfaro III, Frank Gillette, Olivia Parker, Vicki Lee Ragan, John Reuter, John Gutkowski, and Judith Golden<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cullinan |first=Helen |date=February 22, 1985 |title=Polaroid instant art on view |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-polaroid-instant-art-on/192260012/ |access-date= |work=The Plain Dealer |pages=74 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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== External links == * [https://www.chrisenos.com/ Official website] * [https://cola.unh.edu/person/chris-enos Profile] at the University of New Hampshire * [https://www.prcboston.org/ Photographic Resource Center (PRC) website]
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