Gioia Maria Aloisi
Fotografa multisensoriale e Artista visiva
E-mail: gioiamaria.aloisi@unimib.it
Sito web: www.gioiamariaaloisi.com
Gioia Maria Aloisi is an Italian visual artist and photographer, born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana and based in Milan. For more than thirty years, her research has explored the body, nature, and memory as vulnerable territories, exposed to wounding, transformation, and the possibility of rebirth.
Through photography, installation, painting, performance, organic materials, manual intervention, and artificial intelligence, she creates works in which sensory perception becomes a means of knowledge and connection. Particular attention is devoted to ecology, care, identity, and perceptual inclusion.
A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, she has taught at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she has led the Non-Verbal Communication Laboratory since 2006.
She has taken part in international exhibitions, awards, and artist residencies across Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, China, and Brazil. In 2016, she was a finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize with the work “War to War.” She later received an Arte Laguna Special Prize for an artist residency at the Hong Museum, which concluded in 2025 with an exhibition and the acquisition of several works for the museum’s collection.
Selected ProjectsDreaming Flowers, 2025
Developed during an artist residency between Zhuji and Shanghai, the project comprises sixteen works combining original photography, artificial intelligence, digital processing, and manual intervention.
The “Dreaming Flowers” series consists of limited-edition Fine Art prints on museum-grade Hahnemühle paper, created through photographic layering followed by painterly and digital reworking.
“Dreaming Flowers Black” comprises seven monotypes on Chinese paper, produced through gestures inspired by calligraphy and ink painting. The project was presented on November 13, 2025, at the Hongyi Art Museum in Shanghai.
Ancestral Echoes, 2025
Created during a residency at BigCi in the Australian Blue Mountains, “Ancestral Echoes” unfolds as a dialogue between nature, the body, memory, and perception.
The project includes the installation “A Message for You,” made with fabrics marked by the resin of Angophora trees in the landscape of Bilpin, the performance “Nature, Senses and Emotions,” and a series of monotypes and works on rice paper.
Rosso VIVO
An environmental art project developed within the woodland landscape of Ancarano, in Abruzzo, using wood, pigments, and natural materials.
The installation makes the wound of the forest visible and invites reflection on the fragility of ecosystems and on human responsibility towards the environment.
Selected Exhibitions, Residencies and Selections2026
“Ancestral Echoes,” group exhibition connected with the Arte Laguna Special Prize, MAMAM – Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães, Recife, Brazil
2025
“Dreaming Flowers,” Hongyi Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Artist residency at Hong Museum, Zhuji and Shanghai, China
Artist residency at BigCi, Blue Mountains, Australia
“Mythography V,” Trieste Photo Fringe, Sala Veruda, Trieste, Italy
2024
“Astrolabio,” Spazio LAS Brera, Milan, Italy
Winner of the Arte Laguna Special Prize – Hong Museum
2023
“Palingenesi – Poetry of Being,” Accademia Franco Angeli, Milan, Italy
“Palingenesi – Ri-Generation,” Galleria Eroici Furori, Milan, Italy
“Shomèr Ma Mi-Llailah,” Sala San Rocco, Lugano, Switzerland
2020
International Photography Exhibition, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019
“Save the Arctic,” Ecoistituto della Valle del Ticino, Cuggiono, Italy
2018
Documentary Photography Biennale, Nau Bostik, Barcelona, Spain
Spectrum Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA
“Arctic Paintings and Video Art,” University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
2016
Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, with “War to War,” Arsenale of Venice, Italy
Berlin Foto Biennale, Berlin, Germany
“Reflecting on War,” EA Gallery, Palermo, Italy
2015
“Hit Parade – White Books,” MAUTO – National Automobile Museum, Turin, Italy
2013
“Con-Ta-Ci,” performance presented within the framework of the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
“The Places of the Imagination,” Spazio OCA, Milan, Italy
2012
Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy
Galerie Espace, Montréal, Canada
Selected Awards and RecognitionsArte Laguna Special Prize – Hong Museum, 2024
Finalist, Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenale of Venice, 2016
Prix de la Photographie Paris – PX3, awards in several categories, 2016
Julia Margaret Cameron Award, finalist and honourable mention, 2018
Pollux Awards, finalist and honourable mention, 2016 and 2018
Berlin Foto Biennale, international selection, 2016
Areas of ResearchMultisensory photography and art
Environmental art and sustainability
Installation design
Performance and non-verbal communication
Artificial intelligence and manual intervention
Accessibility and perceptual inclusion
