Giovanni Aloi (born 1976) is an Italian author and curator specializing in the representation of nature in modern and contemporary art. He teaches art history and visual culture at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and is the co-editor of the University of Minnesota Press book series Art after Nature. Aloi is also USA correspondent for Esse Magazine Art+Opinion.
Books in order of publication:
Art & Animals (2011: IB Tauris)
Antennae 10: A Decade of Art and the Non-Human (2017: Forlaget 284 and Antennae project)
Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (2017: Columbia University Press)
Animal: Exploring the Zoological World -consultant and coauthor- (2018: Phaidon)
Botanical Speculations: Plants in Contemporary Art (2018: Cambridge Scholars)
Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (2018: Brill)
Lucian Freud Herbarium (2019: Prestel)
Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom -co-author- (2020: Phaidon)
Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader -co-editor- (2021: Columbia University Press)
Bird: Exploring the Winged World -co-author- (2021: Phaidon)
Ocean: Exploring the Marine World -co-author- (2022: Phaidon)
Vegetal Entwinements in Philosophy and Art: A Reader -co-editor Michael Marder- (2023: MI Press)
Manuela Infante: Estado Vegetal (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press) 2023
Garden: Exploring the Horticultural World -co-author- (2023: Phaidon)
Tree: Exploring the Arboreal World -co-author- (2024: Phaidon)
Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art (Los Angeles: Getty) 2024
Lawn (London: Bloomsbury) 2025
I’m Not an Artist: Reclaiming Creativity in the Age of Infinite Content (London: Bloomsbury) 2025
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