Gioia Maria Aloisi
Fotografa multisensoriale e Artista visiva
E-mail: gioia.aloisi@libero.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 work has explored the body, nature and memory as vulnerable territories, open to injury, transformation and the possibility of renewal.
Working across photography, installation, painting, performance, organic materials, hand interventions and artificial intelligence, she creates works in which sensory perception becomes a means of knowledge and connection. Her practice pays particular attention to ecology, care, identity and perceptual inclusion.
A graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, she has taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she has led the Nonverbal Communication Laboratory since 2006.
She has participated in 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 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 of her works by the museum.
In 2026, she was selected as a finalist in the Photography category of the 21st Arte Laguna Prize with her series Dance to Life, to be exhibited at the Arsenale Nord in Venice from 6 to 29 November 2026. In the same edition, she won the Château de Leignon Special Prize, which includes a two-week artist residency in Belgium. She also received a Special Prize in the 20th edition of the Arte Laguna Prize associated with an exhibition at MAMAM in Recife, Brazil.
Selected projects
Wounded Trees (Alberi feriti), 2026
This photographic work documents an installation created during Aloisi’s artist residency in Australia as part of her broader project Ancestral Echoes – Wounded Trees. It is exhibited at the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM) in Recife, Brazil, in the group exhibition A Inteligência Artificial Pode Ajudar a Salvar e Proteger a Natureza? (“Can Artificial Intelligence Help Save and Protect Nature?”)
Dreaming Flowers, 2025
Developed during an artist residency between Zhuji and Shanghai, the project combines original photography, artificial intelligence, digital processing and hand interventions. Dreaming Flower Vision comprises seven limited-edition Fine Art prints on museum-quality Hahnemühle paper, created through layered photographs followed by painterly and digital reworking. Dreaming Flower Black comprises seven monotypes on Chinese paper, made with gestures inspired by calligraphy and ink painting. Both series were presented on 13 November 2025 at the Hong Art Museum in Shanghai.
Ancestral Echoes, 2025Created 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 VIVOAn 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
“Wounded Trees /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
