Visual Voices with Giovanni Aloi is an online artist talk hosted by Mason Exhibitions and the School of Art and Design. The event will take place via zoom on Thursday, September 7, 2023 @ 4:45pm - 6:30pm. RSVP is required to receive the zoom link!

Dr. 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), and Estado Vegetal (2023). Aloi has contributed to BBC radio programs, served as academic adviser for many institutions and has curated exhibitions in the USA and abroad. Aloi lectures on modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. 

For questions about this online artist talk, please contact Jeff Kenney at jkenney5@gmu.edu