Barbara Yoshida is an American visual artist.  She was born in Portland, Oregon, and now lives and works in New York City.  She studied painting (M.A. at Hunter College, City University of New York and B.A., University of Washington, Seattle) and Japanese language at Columbia University, New York.  She has had numerous exhibitions in countries around the world, including Poland, The Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Finland, Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, Korea, India, England, France, Austria, Republic of China, Switzerland, Canada and Italy.  Most recently she had a one-person exhibition of 80 prints in 2010 at Muzeum Narodowe w Gdańsku (National Museum) in Gdańsk, Poland, and during that same year she had solo shows at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Erlin Galéria in Budapest, Hungary, as well as being selected by Joyce Tenneson for “The View Project” at Naples Museum of Art in Florida.  During 2012 Yoshida will have her second one-person show in Tokyo, Japan.  In 2007 Yoshida had two solo exhibitions in Budapest, Hungary, resulting in reviews in the Budapest Sun and Élet És Irodalom, two interviews for Duna TV, an interview for fotovilag Hungarian website for photography, and an article in Fotómuvészet magazine with nine full-page reproductions of her moonlight photographs.

Yoshida was invited to exhibit as part of Kaunas Photo Days 2006 in Kaunas, Lithuania and had three other solo shows that year: one in New York City and two in Scotland.  Also in 2006, after participating as an exhibiting artist at FotoFest in Houston, Texas, she was chosen from nearly 1,300 photographers for Photography Now: one hundred portfolios, a DVD-ROM created and distributed by Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and was invited to jury the Minnesota Print Biennial.  Other solo exhibitions have been at George B. Dorr Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine; Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Johnson County College in Overland Park, Kansas.  Her photogravures were shown at Atelier Lacourière Frélaut in Paris, as part of Le Mois de l’Estampe 2005, and seven prints were featured at Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.  She was honored to be included in Luna Córnea in 2004; Double Exposure online magazine in 2006; and Night and Low-Light Photography: Professional Techniques from Experts for Artistic and Commercial Success, published by Watson-Guptill in 2008.

In addition to photographing the US through a half-dozen artist’s residencies for the National Park Service, Yoshida is also a former Light Work, Ucross, Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Atlantic Center for the Arts (selected by Graciela Iturbide), and two-time MacDowell Colony fellow.  Yoshida’s work is in various public and private collections, including Museet for Fotokunst Brandts Klaedefabrik in Denmark; Southeast Museum of Photography; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum; The Huntington Gardens Art Collection; Polaroid Corporation; The Demarco Skateraw Project in Scotland; Light Work; New York Public Library; Newark Public Library; Free Library of Philadelphia; The University of Dallas; and Arkansas State University.  She did her graduate work at Hunter College, City University of New York, New York City, studying with Robert Morris, Tony Smith, Ray Parker and Vincent Longo.

In the past, Yoshida made several series concerning the naked body, including self-portraits with masks.  During the past ten years, she has been working on two major projects: nocturnal landscapes featuring Neolithic standing stones in moonlight and a portrait series of women artists.  She uses only analog photography.