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Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature and the environment in art. Aloi is the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and co-editor of the ‘Art after Nature’ book series published by University of Minnesota Press. He is the author and editor of many books on art and nature including Art & Animals (2011), Speculative Taxidermy (2018), Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (2018), Botanical Speculations (2018), Lucian Freud Herbarium (2019), Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant Thinking (2023), Vegetal Entwinements (2023) co-edited with Michael Marder, Estado Vegetal (2023), Botanical Revolutions (2025), and Lawn (2025). Aloi has contributed to NPR, PBS, and BBC TV and radio programs, served as an academic adviser for many institutions and has curated exhibitions in the USA and abroad. He lectures on modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.