Barbara Yoshida has had numerous exhibitions in countries around the world, including The Netherlands, Japan, Finland, Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, Korea, India, England, France, Austria, Republic of China, Switzerland, Canada and Italy. During 2008 Yoshida had her first one-person show in Tokyo, and in 2007 she had three one-person shows: two in Budapest and one in Greenport, New York. 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. That same year she was invited to exhibit in Houston, Texas in conjunction with FotoFest; selected for Photography Now: one hundred portfolios; and invited to jury the Minnesota Print Biennial. Other solo exhibitions have been in Overland Park, Kansas; George B. Dorr Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine; Amherst, Massachusetts; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Sopot, Poland; and Gdansk, Poland. 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.

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. Public collections that contain her work include 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.