Tokujin Yoshioka was born in 1967 in Saga Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo in 1988, he worked under influential designers Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake before founding his own studio, Tokujin Yoshioka Inc., in 2000. His practice spans design, contemporary art, and architecture, guided by a fascination with light, nature, and the senses, and a commitment to exploring how materials and environment shape experience.
Yoshioka’s work is internationally acclaimed and often experimental in form and material. He has collaborated with leading global brands including Cartier, Swarovski, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Toyota, Lexus, Moroso, Glas Italia, and Kartell. Many of his creations are held in the permanent collections of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He has received numerous international awards and was named by Newsweek as one of the “100 Most Respected Japanese in the World.”
