Ken Nash is an American-born artist, writer, illustrator, animator, and musician who has called Prague home since 2001. Over the past three decades, his work has connected commercial storytelling with personal creative exploration, from corporate communications and animation to fiction, sketching, and live performance.
Nash first came to Prague in 1992, at a time when the city was undergoing enormous change. Originally planning to stay for only a couple of years, he quickly became involved in Prague’s emerging creative community. During this period, he began drawing a weekly cartoon for The Prague Post, later collecting those cartoons in the book Prague on 13 Beers a Day. The experience marked the beginning of his long relationship with the city.
After several years away — including time spent living in Guatemala and working in animation in San Francisco — Nash returned to Prague in September 2001. Since then, he has continued to work across multiple creative disciplines. He is the author of the fiction collections The Brain Harvest: Autobiographical Narratives and Other Fictions and Life Raft, has released two albums of original music, and helped found the Alchemy Reading & Performance Series, a long-running Prague event celebrating literature and performance.
Nash is also an active member of Prague Urban Sketchers, where he uses drawing as a way of observing and documenting the changing city around him. His illustrations have appeared in publications including Myla Goldberg’s Time’s Magpie: A Walk in Prague, and his sketching practice reflects his ongoing interest in architecture, everyday life, and the stories hidden in ordinary places.
Alongside his personal creative work, Nash has built a career helping organizations communicate through writing, illustration, animation, and visual storytelling. He has worked with startups, nonprofits, and international companies, creating everything from marketing content and brand narratives to illustrations and animated pieces that make complex ideas easier to understand.
After more than three decades of watching Prague transform, Nash remains fascinated by the city’s mix of history, humor, contradictions, and constant reinvention. Whether working on a client project, drawing in a café, writing fiction, or playing music, he continues to look for the same thing: the story behind the surface.