Japan, Iga, large bowl by Kenji Kojima circa 1980

Kenji Kojima was born in 1953 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
After graduating from Tokoname Vocational Ceramics High School in 1971, he moved to Iga in 1973, where his art was quickly accepted into the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition.
The following year, he moved to Okayama for a five-year apprenticeship in Bizen under the renowned potter Konishi Tozo.
In 1979, back in Iga, Kojima studied ancient kiln sites and built his own anagama, which he continues to fire today. That same year, the National Museum of Denmark acquired one of his works.

His major exhibitions in Japan were at Mitsukoshi, Takashimaya, Matsuzakaya, and Daimaru, and he rarely sent his works outside Japan. Throughout his career, Kenji Kojima has participated in numerous exhibitions, including at the Aosuna Craft Center in Okinawa in 1988, at the Tosei Gallery in Kyoto in 2000, at the Daimaru Kyoto Art Gallery in 2003 and 2005, and at the Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Art Gallery in Tokyo in 2004, 2007, and 2010. In 2007, he exhibited at the Yokohama Takashimaya Art Gallery in Kanagawa, and in 2012 at the Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu Garden & Museum in Kyoto. He continued to present his work in 2015 at the Sokyo Gallery in Kyoto, in 2017 at the Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Gallery in Tokyo, in 2018 at the Teisoku-an Gallery in Mie, and in 2021 at the Naha Municipal Tsuboya Pottery Museum in Okinawa. In 2022, he also exhibited at the JR Nagoya Takashimaya Art Gallery.
His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Denmark and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.