Born in Hyogo, Japan in 1981, Minako Yoshida currently lives and works in Hyogo. She graduated from Japan Institute of Photography and Film in 2002. She was the recipient of the Excellence Award at the Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2002, selected by French photographer Marc Riboud. Her work focuses on the theme of creating new harmony between oneself and others through photography.　 She has been documenting and production assistant the work of sculptor Yasuaki Onishi from 2020. 

Selected recent solo exhibitions include: from the desk to ICELAND, VISUAL ARTS GALLERY (Osaka, Japan, 2022); samskeyti, WACOAL STUDYHALL KYOTO (Kyoto, Japan, 2018); and Ordinary Days, galleryMain (Kyoto, Japan, 2016). Selected group exhibitions include: galleryMain archive project #1 (galleryMain, Kyoto, Japan, 2020); OfferingsⅡ (THE TERMINAL KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan, 2016); and Canon New Cosmos of Photography (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 2002).