#  Giovanni Aloi 

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

 

 

 



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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.