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Qenji Yoshida is an artist who explores the in-between of the seemingly un-understandable like: between people who don't have a common language, between a man and an animal, or between you and me. 

Solo Exhibition

2022  "来日",  (under Co-mirroring organized by breaker project) Dobutsuenmae 1st Avenue, Osaka, JP

2020  "In Teleland", Treasure hill international artist village, Taiwan, TW

2016  "理解出来ない is incomprehensible", QUINTA DEL SORDO, Madrid, SP

2016  "The Arts of Translation", BUG Bangkok University Gallery, Rangsit, TH

Duo Exhibition

2017  "Intersection/Tourist trap"  with Wantanee Siripattananuntakul(TH) 

          (identical exhibitions showing the same work for the same duration and time in two different countries) 

            - Gallery wks., Osaka, JP

           - Cartel Artspace. Bangkok. TH

2016  "Vague Distance" with Kim Seop (KR), plan.d. galerie, Düsseldorf, DE

Group Exhibition

2023  "Tokyo Biennale 2023", Tokyo, JP

2021 "de-CONSCIENTIZATION :: ถอดจิต ::",  Art Centre, Silpakorn University, TH

2021 "arts in Jetlag - Floating in the Buffering", Stamford Art Center, SG

2021 "Mobile Village/移動聚落 - 雲嘉嘉營視覺藝術連線", 

          Yunling cultural centre, Chiayi cultural gallery, Meiling fine arts museum and Xinying cultural centre, TW

2021 "mobile roots", STOCKWERK, Weimar, DE

2020 "in the era of Asia's Post-LCC", Kyoto Art center, Kyoto, JP

2018 "Art Shower Now", CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, JP

2018  "2018 Season 2 Residency Artists Exhibition", Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW

2018  "Compiling behaviors, digesting actions", Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, JP

2018  "The Future of This Land", Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, Yamaguchi, JP

2017  "DELIKADO PELIGROSO", MATADERO MADRID, Madrid, SP

2017  "Either/Or", Atelier 2001, Kobe, JP

2016  "RIVER'16", Atelier 2001, Kobe, JP

2015  "Art Shower 2015", CASO Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, JP

2015  "Brackish water region", Kitanozaka Gallery, Osaka, JP

2011  "Poetry in Translations", Hackney WickED Art Festival, London, UK

2010  Open studio @ Hackney WickED Art Festival, London, UK

2006 " \(^o^)/", Nolia’s Gallery, London, UK

Performance, festival, event

2020  "Merry-Go-Round", Treasure Hill international Artist Village, Taipei, TW

2020 "co-mirroring", online screening event, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, JP

2012  "Where “I” is"  

           - Tatsuno-hiranomachi Gallery, Osaka, JP

           - SHOUT ABOUT ART, Bangkok, TH

           - A work space of Urich Lau, SG

           - Film Bar Wa, Seoul, KR

2009  "Open Window Project", Hobrecht Strasse, Berlin, DE

2009  "Exchanging identities" (uncompleted) , Katsura-gawa River, Kyoto, JP, Yodogawa-River, Osaka, JP

2007  "Unknown Happiness", Sahara desert, MA

Artist Talk, Conference, Workshop
2024  Alternative Network Meeting, Nagoya, JP
2024  TASA Annual Meeting, Taitung, TW
2024  Res Artis Conference 2024 — TAIPEI Interweave the Spectrum: Beyond Collaboration, Taipei, TW
2023  Realizing the Ecosystem of the Arts — Creating the Future & Reflecting the Past /2023 Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA) Annual Meeting, Tainan, TW
2022  TRA-TRAVEL / Co-mirroring Artist talk, organized by breaker project / Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Center, Osaka, JP 
2021  The Tension of Invisible Gaze-Cultural Diversity and Inclusivity /2021 Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA) Annual Meeting, online
2021  artness meetup, Online/Zoom, Osaka, JP
2020  Pier-2 Waving Waves Community International Art Forum and TASA Annual Meeting , Pier-2 art center, Kaohsiung, TW
2020  Improvisational music daydreaming: (Vol. 1 meditation with unknowns) with heroom, Tadpole Point, Taipei, TW
2019  Presentation: Gap Effect
          Sharing the Field, Open Study Group: Exchanges between Japan and Philippines Through Art, Grand Front Osaka, Osaka, JP
2018  Lecture: National Taipei University of Education - Dept. of Arts & Design, Taipei, TW
2018  Artist talk: Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW
2018  Artist talk: Houmei Chiki Koryu Center organized by Akiyoshidai International Artist Village, Yamaguchi, JP

2016  Lecture: Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, SP

2016  Lecture: Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, SP

2016  Artist talk/presentation: Hybrid (Festival de Espacios de Arte Alternativos de Madrid) , Madrid, SP

2016  Workshop and Artist talk: School of Fine and Applied Arts, BU, Bangkok, TH

Artist in residency, Fellowship, Grant and Award 
2020-2021 Breaker Project, Osaka, JP(AIR) as TRA-TRAVEL
2020  Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW (AIR) by the support of Japanese Cultural Ministry (Bunkacho)
2019-2020  Japanese Cultural Ministry (Bunkacho), Abroad Research Fellowship, JP
2019  Grant winner for 3 year project as TRA-TRAVEL, Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka, Osaka, JP
2019  Grant winner, Arts Support Kansai, JP
2019  Co-program, Kyoto Art Center, JP as TRA-TRAVEL 
2018  Taipei International Artist Village, Taipei, TW (AIR)

2018  Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, JP (AIR)

2017  Matadero Madrid / El Ranchito,  Madrid, SP (AIR)

2016  Intercambiador Acart, Madrid, SP (AIR)

2016  Japanese Cultural Ministry (Bunkacho), Abroad Research Fellowship, JP

2016  Bangkok University, Bangkok, TH (AIR)

2015  First prize winner,  Art Shower 2015, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, JP

2014 - 2015  Instituto Volusiano de Artes, São Paulo, BR (AIR)

Article, interview and publication
2024  interview by Manabu Miki (in JP)
2023  review about Realizing the Ecosystem of the Arts — Creating the Future & Reflecting the Past /2023 Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA) Annual Meeting (in CH)  
2022  catalogue "Co-mirroring" (in JP / CH / EN) 
2022  catalogue "de-CONSCIENTIZATION :: ถอดจิต :: (in TH / EN)
2022  Newspaper article about the exhibition "de-CONSCIENTIZATION :: ถอดจิต :: (in TH)
2022  Artscape interview (in JP) 
2021  catalogue "Mobile Village/移動聚落 - 雲嘉嘉營視覺藝術連線" (in CH / EN)
2020  Artlogue (in JP)
2019  Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2018 (in EN / JP)
2018  TRANS 2017-2018, HTML version    FLASH version (in EN /JP)
2017  Tokyo Arts and Space Annual Report 2017 (in EN / JP)
2017  DELIKADO PELIGROSO El Ranchito Programa de Residencias Matadero Madrid – AECID (in EN / SP)
2017  Review of "Intersection/Tourist trap"  (with a Thai Artist Wantanee Siripattananuntakul) (in JP)
2016  Newspaper ABC de Seville, regarding the project "El Japones, Seville, SP (in SP)
2016  Review of "The Arts of Translation", BUG Bangkok University Gallery, Rangsit, TH (in TH)
Education
2004 - 2006  City and Guilds of London Art School, Post Graduate Diploma Fine Art Painting, UK (uncompleted)

2003 - 2004  University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, Foundation in Fine Art, UK

1998 - 1999  Sobien Fashion College, Saturday Course, Osaka, JP (Concurrent with attending Buddhist High School)

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