Qenji Yoshida, The Great Pretender, Installation View, Caso Contemporary Art Space, Osaka. 2015. 

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 and collaboration as key elements in the "art of being together." Through TRA-TRAVEL, the Osaka-based arts hub he co-founded, Yoshida thinks through these inquiries by shaping spaces of encounter and exchange via exhibitions, 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, in collaboration with Wantanee Siripattananuntakul); de-CONSCIENTIZATION, Art Centre, Silpakorn University, Bangkok (2021, as TRA-TRAVEL); 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.