Solomon Enos | |
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| Born | Mākaha Valley  |
| Occupation | Artist, illustrator, writer |
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| Website | https://www.solomonenos.com/ |
Solomon Enos is an award-wining Native Hawaiian artist, illustrator, and activist. Enos has had their work displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian and Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. [1] [2] [3]
Enos was born in the Makaha Valley to Eric and Shelly Enos. [2] [4] [5] Eric Enos was an artist and cultural practitioner who founded the Ka‘ala Cultural Learning Center. [6] [5] Shelly Enos worked at Wai‘anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. [5] Enos has three brothers, Kamuela, Kanoe, and Kanohi. [5] In 2010, Kamuela Enos was named as commissioner for President Obama’s Advisory Committee for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. [5] [7] [8]
In 2004, Enos' illustrated Kimo Armitage's book Akua Hawai`i (The Gods and Goddesses of Hawai`i), which was published through Bishop Museum Press. [2] [9] In 2006, Enos illustrated the Epic Tales of Hi`iakaikapoliopele, which was published through Awaiaulu Press. [2] In May 2011, Enos' work was displayed by the National Museum of the American Indian in a multisite exhibit titled “This IS Hawai‘i.” [1] In 2016, Enos was featured in the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's event "CTRL+ALT: A Culture Lab on Imagined Futures." [2] [6] In 2017, Enos was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. [10] [11] Enos also completed a public mural in Thomas Square. [12] In 2019, a mural that Enos had made in collaboration with five other artists was featured in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum's exhibition Unreal: Hawai‘i in Popular Imagination. [3] In 2020, Enos was a speaker for the 2020 Hawai'i Climate Conference. [13] In 2022, Enos had their first exhibition at the Hawaiian Center Art Gallery. [14] They also spoke at a virtual event hosted by the Hawaii State Public Library System called "Hawaiian Sci-fi with Solomon Enos." [15] From July 2022 to May 2023, a series of Enos' paintings titled "Mo‘olelo Archetypes" were on display at the Pitt River Museum in Oxford, England. [16] The paintings from "Mo‘olelo Archetypes" focused on the epiic Hawaiian myth of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele. [16] From January 17 to March 18, 2023, Enos' work was featured alongside nine other artists including Bernice Akamine in an exhibit titled ‘Ike Kanaka at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Schaefer International Gallery. [17]
Bernice Pauahi Bishop KGCOK RoK, born Bernice Pauahi Pākī, was an aliʻi (noble) of the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Hawaii and a well known philanthropist. At her death, her estate was the largest private landownership in the Hawaiian Islands, comprising approximately 9% of Hawaii's total area. The revenues from these lands are used to operate the Kamehameha Schools, which were established in 1887 according to Pauahi's will. Pauahi was married to businessman and philanthropist Charles Reed Bishop.
Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate (KSBE), is a private school system in Hawaiʻi established by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, under the terms of the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who was a formal member of the House of Kamehameha. Bishop's will established a trust called the "Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate" that is Hawaiʻi's largest private landowner. Originally established in 1887 as an all-boys school for native Hawaiian children, it shared its grounds with the Bishop Museum. After it moved to another location, the museum took over two school halls. Kamehameha Schools opened its girls' school in 1894. It became coeducational in 1965. The 600-acre (2.4 km2) Kapālama campus opened in 1931, while the Maui and Hawaiʻi campuses opened in 1996 and 2001, respectively.
The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawaiʻi and has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiian cultural material, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million, of which the entomological collection alone represents more than 13.5 million specimens. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to Herbarium Pacificum of this museum is BISH and this abbreviation is used when citing housed herbarium specimens.
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