Kenji Nakayama is originally from Hokkaido, Japan. He is currently residing in Boston, Massachusetts, where he works as a designer/artist.
Instead of attending art school, as he would have liked, Kenji graduated from a technical institute and started working for industrial firms as an engineer. In his spare time, however, he remained devoted to his art and in 2004 decided to leave the engineering industry in order to pursue his
passion more seriously.

Today, Kenji focuses on photorealistic multi-layer stencils with unique abstract backdrops and highly textured foregrounds that capture significant moments in his daily life. Kenji is also a member of NYC/Boston based Artists Collective project SF and is a featured artist with the Brooklyn based Tank Theory label.