Yoshioka was born in Saga Prefecture in 1967. After graduating from Kuwasawa Design School in 1986, he worked under Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake before becoming a freelance designer in 1992. In 2000 he established his own office, Tokujin Yoshioka Design.Many of his works are part of the permanent collections of museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.