This e-banner appears at the bottom of the email signature of a Kew Gardens editor I’m currently working with. I love Kew Gardens' commitment to break down the hetero-normative conception of nature we have been handed down.

tands and banners across the College Art Association Book Fair in Chicago. I really can't say that my publishers don't support my work. Thank you Getty and Bloomsbury! #getty #bloomsbury #Imnotanartist #botanicalrevolutions #art #nature #plants

A wonderful afternoon at Secrist Beach, leading a walk-through of the current exhibitions: Luminous Matter and Luftwerk’s The Sun Standing Still. Over two hours, alongside the insightful, generous Carrie Secrist, and co-starring artists Kate Joyce, Andrew Bernot, and Yuge Zhou, we moved from

If in Chicago, join me this Saturday at Secrist Beach gallery where with artists Luftwerk and Kate Joyce, we'll embark on a walkthrough and discussion of the current exhibition. The conversation will interrogate the artist's practice as engaging simultaneously with the built and natural world.

Nearly 60F (15.5C) in Chicago today. Icebergs on Lake Michigan fragment and retreat. What a spectacular place this is. #ice #lakemichigan #winter #spring #chicago

The recording of my presentation on collecting and cabinets of curiosities for The Linnean Society of London is now available on Youtube. Link below! From artists’ studios to digital platforms, the cabinet reemerges as a metaphor for fragmented and reconfigured knowledges,

Plants depicted through plant matter. This is not a drawing but an excruciatingly detailed carving. A living world re-imagined in a material that once grew, turning ornament into a kind of specimen, and carving into a form of close looking. In chapter

January, early morning. #winter #january #chicago #frost

"Created using a technique learned from a community of Mexican farmers, an interweaving also rooted in Japanese tradition, Asawa’s wire sculptures embody this tension flawlessly. Formed through a continuous loop that requires complete dedication to a precise gesture, they hang from the

Botanical Revolutions: 2 Book Talks With Giovanni Aloi @giovannialoi.bsky.social. Feb 4 & Feb 5, 2026. Two special lectures about Giovanni Aloi's new book, Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art. Feb 4 in Upperville, VA. Feb 5 in Wash, DC. $10. www.osgf.org/oneday-events

Here's the catalog of "The Botanical Turn" exhibition curated by the one and only Helen Gregory at MCintosh Gallery in London Ontario. It features works by Carrie Allison, Paul Chartrand, Joscelyn Gardner, Zachari Logan, Sarah Maloney, Amanda White, and ZOFF ...

These are some of the books I have returned to as I prepare for the talk on cabinets of curiosities in contemporary art commissioned by The Linnean Society of London. Some of these books on collecting and the history of displays were central to my PhD studies fifteen years ago.

Join art historian @giovannialoi.bsky.social for an online talk on the enduring legacy of Cabinets of Curiosities. From early modern Wunderkammern to contemporary art, he explores how collecting and wonder continue to shape how we understand the world. Thurs 29 Jan | 6:30pm-7:30pm buff.ly/SKvWTwN

Oopsy... my daffodils are already pocking through the ground. Seems a bit early... but it's nice to see them. #daffodils #spring

Of course on Christmas day we went to our church. #xmas #nature #plants #myreligion

If in NYC, don't miss the incredible retrospective of Ruth Asawa at MoMA (until February 7th). It features more than 300 works. Curators Cara Manes and Janet Bishop did a fantastic job foregrounding the artist's passion for plants and botanical illustration and how nature inspired her

I just received my copy of this impressive issue of Robida magazine entirely dedicated to the orchard. What a wonderful accomplishment! Congratulations to the editors (Elena Rucli Aljaž Škrlep, Vida Rucli, Laura Savina and Antônio Frederico Lasalvia) for assembling such a diverse and rich

A festive greeting from the epiphyte gang after a long and restorative soak! #holidays #plants #epiphytes

Antennae #68 is now online! This is the third and last installment entirely dedicating to gardening and art. Gardens are secular sanctuaries; quiet spaces where belief blooms. If experienced from this perspective, with your knees firmly planted into the ground,

In 2019, as the idea for my book 'I’m Not an Artist' began to take shape, I staged a small homage to Keith Arnatt’s iconic work in which the artist simply holds a placard declaring: I am an artist. In its ironic simplicity, the statement is both fact and parody, truth and travesty.

That's why you don't blow your leaves away, put them in a bag and send them to the dump! #gardencare #winter #nature

What a treat to spend some time with cacti at the Copenhagen Botanic Garden before my departure. #cacti #Copenhagen #botanicgarden

Imagine what these two are telling each other... #plantconversations

Honored to give a keynote on houseplants and art in Copenhagen next week. Join us on Tuesday the 2nd and 3rd of December at the Natural History Museum Denmark for the symposium 'Plant Fever: Politics, Poetics, and Pleasures of Houseplants'. Organized by Aarhus University.

NEW BOOK: 2025 and the myth of the “artist” is still alive and kicking, pushing talented, creative people into bad decisions about their careers and lives.

On the third day of the third moon month, after a six- thousand-year wait, the deities residing in the palace of the Jade Emperor and his wife, Xi Wangmu, feast on the peaches of immortality. The peach tree grows in Xi’s garden, in China’s fabled Kunlun Mountains, and it only covers

I was interviewed by Yvonne Volkart on speculative approaches to plant intelligence. Read the full interview on INSERT at the link below. #art #plants #posthumanism #plantintelligence

Discussing 'Lawn' in Montreal for Rewilding Arts Collective. Thanks for the enthusiasm and support. Ditching the lawn and reconnecting with the soil is within everyone's reach. My book advocates for a quite revolution in which no patch of land is too small to make a difference! #rewilding #plants

By 1910, Wassily Kandinsky, one of the undisputed masters of early modern painting, had embarked on an uncharted creative journey: a radical departure from the rules and prescriptions of Western figurative art. The Russian avant-garde artist had

🌿 PLANT INTELLIGENCE Symposium: Learning Like a Plant, HGK Basel, with keynotes from @giovannialoi.bsky.social & @philosalon.bsky.social Info & Schedule, Oct 31-Nov 2: plants-intelligence.ch/save-the-dat... Livestream: live.hgk.fhnw.ch/plants-intel... Sometimes, not doing anything is also doing 🌿

If you're in Milan on November 4th, join us at Casa degli Artisti (18:45) where I will present 'Botanical Revolutions' followed by a discussion with Curator Gabi Scardi. More info at the link in bio. #art #plants #posthumanism #arthistory #botanicalrevolutions

A touch of frost in the garden this morning... #chicago #frost

If you're in Basel next week come to the 'Plants_Intelligence Symposium' organized by Yvonne Volkart, October 31st - November 2nd, 2025. My Keynote address focusses on the lawn... Exciting roster of speakers including my dear colleague Michael Marder.

Nothing I have ever worked on matches the delicate sophistication of this incredible book of Lee Kwang-Ho's paintings of cacti. The paper quality, the image reproduction, the outstanding attention to details. It features my essay 'Through the Skin of Cacti' in both English and Korean.

Thank you Ragdalians for following me on a rollercoaster talk about Botanical Revolutions: How Plants Changed the Course of Art. What a night! #botanicalrevolutions #art #plants #getty

It's happening... and the sumac knows it first... #sumac #autumn #red

A wonderful afternoon with botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer at Brushwood Center. Her work on plants has had a defining influence on my thinking and writing -- I was chuffed to finally meet her in person and talk. Today, Robin launched a new initiative called "Plant, Baby, Plant"

... then came the thunderstorm that took summer away once and for all... #summer #garden #plants

Thanks 'BorderCrossing Magazine' for inviting me to write a lengthy reflection on how 25 years of animal revolutions in art have forever changed the contemporary creative landscape. In this essay I celebrate the pioneering work of artists like Ken Rinaldo, Kira O'Reilly, and Anika Yi who,

Join me in Montreal next week, on October 10th, at the Maison du développement durable for a discussion of my new book 'Lawn' with Dr. Emma Despland. This is will be an evening exploring the creative, ecological, and social possibilities of working with plants, gathering artists, activists,

Deep in preparation for my keynote at the Green Heresies Symposium at the Neubauer Collegium next Friday & Saturday! Thrilled to be in conversation with artists and scholars who are reimagining our relationships with plants.

This Sunday, at 4pm Italian time, I will contribute (remotely) to the ambitious and very timely panel 'Thinking hands constructing our collective response to the climate crisis' moderated by Nicolas Panelli at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. #architecturevenicebiennale #climate #art

How nasturtium always glows like amber during sunset... #septembergarden #nasturtium #sunset #orange #flowers #garden

Strangers at Home: Plant-Human Migrations A conversation with Yota Batsaki and Giovanni Aloi Thursday, September 18, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 pm Central US Time We think of plants as rooted to the spot, but they travel constantly through their adaptations or the actions of humans.

It’s always special to encounter one of your books in the world. But stumbling upon it in New York City, on the shelves of two iconic bookstores like Rizzoli and Strand, feels particularly meaningful.

Dr. Giovanni Aloi: The Lawn – Nothing to do With Nature is an interesting interview of @giovannialoi.bsky.social in Landezine about his new book, Lawn. "Gardens and green areas of all types should be regarded as perpetually belonging to all earthlings." landezine.com/dr-giovanni-...

Another stunning nighttime bloom. The ethereal flower of the epiphyllum cactus only lasts one night and will have withered by dawn. Glad I caught it! The fragrance is remarkably similar to angel's trumpet.... #cactus #bloom #queenofnight #flower

This year I’ve spotted a record number of tussock caterpillars on milkweed along the North Shore. They share the monarchs’ coloration but are much hairier. The bristles can trigger blisters on contact. So look, don’t touch. Still, they’re very cute and, for some reason, usually hang around in pairs.

I was recently interviewed by Urška Škerl of Landezine Magazine about 'Lawn'. Read the full interview at the link below. "Škerl: In the concluding chapter, From the Buffers, Back to the Garden, you emphasize liminality as an uncharted space with maximum potential and references a range of artists,