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Qenji Yoshida’s practice is concerned with the ways personal and collective identities form across gaps in language and understanding. Working with site-specific performance, video, text and installation, he explores hosting as a key element in the "art of being together." Through TRA-TRAVEL, the Osaka-based arts hub he co-founded, Yoshida extends these inquiries into collective spaces of learning through a programme of exhibitions, international artist residencies, and live events. 

Qenji Yoshida lives and works in Osaka. Recent projects include: In Teleland, Treasure Hill International Artist Village, Taiwan (2020); and Tokyo Biennale (2023); de-CONSCIENTIZATION, Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok (2021); Mobile Village, multiple venues in Taiwan (2021). Yoshida is the co-founder of TRA-TRAVEL, an artist-led hub where Yoshida co-curates an online art school, an artist in residency programme, artist talks and uses the space as a hub for international artists. TRA-TRAVEL focuses on the art of being together, examining how many differing practices intersect. He has been an artist-in-residence at Taipei International Artist Village, Matadero Madrid, and Akiyoshidai International Art Village.  

This residency is in partnership with Japan House, London.