Kenichi Nakajima is a Japanese artist born in Sendai and based in New York since 2007. He studied at The Art Students League of New York, receiving the Xavier and Ethel Edwards Gonzalez Grant and the Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant in 2009, and later continued his studies at the National Academy Museum and School. He has exhibited internationally at venues including the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, Theater for the New City, National Academy Museum, Pleiades Gallery, Gallery Max New York, neurotitan in Berlin, and NY Coo Gallery.

Kenichi’s practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. He works with a wide range of materials—from traditional media such as oil paint and graphite to natural elements, found objects, environmental conditions, and occasionally his own body—treating all of them as carriers of presence, memory, and transformation. His current work explores the underlying conditions of existence—impermanence, interdependence, and the subtle vibrations present in matter and living beings. Rather than pursuing fixed meaning or ideology, he focuses on processes of change: the shifting of water and soil, the rhythms of organic matter, and the quiet forces that connect the tangible and intangible. Through these investigations, his work reveals states of presence where language recedes and existence itself becomes the primary form.