Lives and works between Milan and Tuscany (born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, LU). A painter, photographer, writer, sculptor, video performer, and expert in computer art, Gioia Aloisi has always combined her personal artistic journey with continuous research.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where she also studied photography and graphics—fields that immediately ignited her passion—Aloisi lived between Milan and Versilia from 1984 to 1986. During that time, she met and worked with prominent figures in the international art scene, such as Bruno Munari, Mario Ballocco, Gianni Colombo, Silvio Coppola, Cruz Diez, Enzo Mari, Denise René, Pier Carlo Santini, Fausta Squatriti, and Luigi Veronesi, from whom she gained valuable insights and skills. In those years he produced works inspired by programmed and kinetic art, including the "chromoscultures", the kinetic book, the "cambi" box .
At a young age, she won a worldwide competition organized by UNESCO in Paris for designing a celebratory poster for forty years of commitment to peace.
In 1986, she moved to Milan, where she worked at a Special School for the Blind and developed an innovative method for tactile and theatrical workshops. Concurrently, she began collaborating with publishing houses, writing books on art education. In 2002, she won a scholarship to collaborate with the University of Milan, the Polytechnic, and the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera as a tutor and trainer in art education.
In 2005, she founded Edu-art in Milan, a research center on art and creativity, of which she was president until 2018. Among numerous international recognitions, in 2007 she was invited by Art Beyond Sight in New York to present her multisensory installation "Touchme" at an international conference at the Metropolitan Museum, followed in 2009 by "The Way."
She has received numerous prestigious awards worldwide. She was among the top photographers in competitions like Bambini in Versilia (Viareggio, 1993) and ZOOM IMAGE BANK No.133 (1995), which ranked her among the 100 best Italian photographers. She participated in a large international mosaic project in Montreal, and in 2013 she took part in the 55th Venice Biennale, presenting "Con-Ta-Ci" in the "Tibet" Pavilion, a monumental salt mandala created with 100 contemporary artists.
In 2011, she won first prize in the Abstract category of the Black and White Spider Awards in Los Angeles, and her photographs have been recognized or selected in international competitions such as the PX3 Photography Awards, IPA, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Gala Awards, Pollux Awards, Color Awards, and Siena Creative Photography Award, among others.
Aloisi was also a finalist for the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, exhibiting her installation War to War at the Arsenale in 2016. Her works have been exhibited in cities such as Paris, Montreal, New York, London, Miami, Berlin, Barcelona, Venice, Milan, Palermo, and Rome, and are found in private collections and academic publications on art education, poetry, and music.
One of her video-photographic works, Electron 9, premiered at the multidisciplinary festival Il Giardino delle Esperidi in Consonno and was subsequently selected as a finalist at the Aquino Film Festival.
Among her more recent exhibitions are the IV International Photography Biennale in Berlin (2016) and the V International Photography Biennale in Barcelona (2018).
Over the years, she has realized performances and installations worldwide, becoming famous for her "dark paintings" and sensory-perceptual environments. One of her most significant projects was developed for the twentieth anniversary of the University of Milan-Bicocca: Narrartico, a multisensory workshop for the exhibition Arctic: Interactive Journey to the North Pole (2018), which presented artworks and a video made with M. Giusti and P. Bove, titled The Earth Is a Connected Space, a work dedicated to environmental awareness and the safeguarding of the Arctic.
Aloisi's extensive teaching experience includes collaborations with the University of Milan, the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, and the Department of Intercultural Pedagogy at the University of Milan Bicocca, Art Beyond Sight (New York), Ca' Foscari University (Venice), OPPI Milan, the Italian Union of the Blind (UIC), the Institute for the Blind in Milan, and numerous cultural institutions and non-profit organizations.
She has published numerous texts with Aletti, De Agostini, Elemond, Minerva Italica, Mondadori, and Morano Editori. Among her poetry collections are To Odos (Aletti, Rome, 2007) and The Tree of Life (Narcissus eBook, 2015 )and her latest poetry book Uno di Due: tutto ciò che so sull'amore (Aletti, Rome, 2023)- Her poems also appear in numerous contemporary anthologies. Critics and writers such as E. Fiorini, M. Malì, P. Panacci, M. G. Spadaro, S. Silanos, and D. Tronelli, among others, have written about her work.
Aloisi's research explores multisensory perception and the emotional power of life through sight and touch. Her practice often confronts social themes; her work with blind and differently-abled individuals has led her to develop a creative methodology based on "seeing beyond sight."
Currently, her artistic research revolves around the relationship between the human body, nature, and matter, celebrating and safeguarding their intrinsic fragility. Her works often incorporate natural materials such as sand, crystals, dust, pure pigments, texts, and photographs.
In recent years, she has also explored Artificial Intelligence as a creative medium, realizing a series dedicated to the Re-Generation of Humanity. The project debuted in Milan in a solo exhibition curated by S. Agliotti, with post-production by Marco Campanini Contemporary (Berlin).
In 2025, she was invited to a residency at BIGCI – Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives in Bilpin, Australia, within the Wollemi National Park. During her stay, she developed and exhibited the project Ancestral Echoes (February 2, 2025), which included 46 botanical prints of native flowers and plants, six vertical works (2 meters x 20 cm) on handmade rice paper, created with marbling techniques and natural pigments collected on-site, and a participatory performance titled Nature, Senses and Emotions, along with a site-specific installation in front of the barn where she lived for a month.
In 2024, her participation in the 19th Arte Laguna Prize led her to become a semifinalist in the Land Art category, where she received an Honorable Mention. In 2025, she won a Special Prize: a fully funded artistic residency at the Hong Museum in Shanghai (October-November 2025), which concluded with an exhibition at the museum.
Also in 2025, she was appointed Ambassador of the Arte Laguna Prize and national juror for UCAI, contributing to the selection of works for the exhibition La Speranza, organized on the occasion of the Jubilee in prestigious Roman venues, including the Senate Hall at Minerva, Palazzo Maffei Marescotti, and the UCAI headquarters, where she also exhibited her work Maternità, generated by artificial intelligence.
Finally, in 2025, Ancestral Echoes, her project created in Wollemi Park, won the Arte Laguna Prize Exhibition Award at the Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art (MAMAM) in Brazil.