東京生まれ。17歳から11年間アメリカに渡米、Plymouth State University BFA PaintingとNew York Studio School MFA Painting を取得。NY時代 の2014年にHoneberg Traveling Prizeを受賞し、3ヶ月間のイタリア滞在を 経てからNYで個展を開催。拠点を北海道に移し2022年5月には洞爺湖 芸術館で初の美術館個展。同年の10月にはPhiilips Exeter Academy USA にてアーティスト・イン・レジデンスに参加し国内外で精力的に活動を行う。 2024年にNYのGR galleyとThomas VanDyke Galleyで個展。同年、台北で 吉田卓矢・みなみの2人展を開催。

Yoshida expresses on canvas the feelings that arise from the experiences and memories of his time in Japan and the United States. 

His canvas conveys a desire for peace and universal love, combining the sensibility of the Japanese kawaii (“cute”) pop culture he grew up in with the assured color and composition skills he cultivated at art school in the United States.

To keep this desire fresh on the canvas, Yoshida strives to complete his paintings in one go before his emotions subside. However, in the process of making a painting, he ends up overpainting dozens of times until he is satisfied. The creatures in his paintings may appear kawaii at first glance, but a closer look reveals distinctive textures and brushwork that evokes painters of the Ecole de Paris era. Regarding overpainting, Yoshida describes it as “an indispensable process for turning my ideas and expressions into universal paintings.”

The motifs that appear on Yoshida’s canvases include creatures with a somewhat lonesome appearance, evenings, nights, and skulls. These motifs continually appear among rather strange and awkward likenesses of people who strive to be strong in the face of the indescribable feelings of suffering and decay they face because they were born into this world.

Yoshida’s unique artistic vision may be described as the expression of this not-so-lighthearted subject matter in a unique and interesting way.

His paintings use non-realistic colors and creatures to express eternal themes that people must face, including the human-created boundaries of race, border, and gender, along with other boundaries such as Heaven and Hell. The world of Yoshida’s artistic vision, with its harmony of chaotic colors and compositions, is perhaps not an impossible alien world so much as a world of hope that can be realized.

Confronting solitude in Hokkaido in Japan’s rural north, Yoshida overpaints day after day, imagining a peaceful new landscape on the other side of the canvas.