Giovanni Aloi

Professor, School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

Giovanni Aloi, PhD, is an art historian, editor, and curator specializing in environmental politics and the representation of nature in art. Aloi has published numerous books, including Art & Animals (I.B Tauris, 2011), Speculative Taxidermy (Columbia University Press, 2018), Botanical Speculations (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), Why Look at Plants? (Brill | Rodopi, 2019), Lucian Freud Herbarium (Prestel, 2019), Estado Vegetal (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2023), Vegetal Entwinements (co-edited with Michael Marder, The MIT Press, 2023), Botanical Revolutions (Getty Publications, 2025), and Lawn (Object Lesson) (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is a U.S. correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago.