Donata Lazzarini (1968) is an artist and professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where she coordinates the Bachelor’s program in Sculpture. Her work focuses on the relationship between the environment and landscape through a range of artistic practices. Currently, in the exhibition ARIA on view at GAM Verona, she presents Xenogenesis, a project exploring the relationship between ecosystems and adaptation in anthropized spaces through aerial botanical species. Other projects, such as Cuore d’Oro and Le preziose ridicole, address rare or biodiversity-threatening species (such as Ailanthus altissima) that arrived from other continents as early as the late 18th century. Her attention to and study of botanical elements is pursued through sculpture, photography, and drawing.

She has held numerous exhibitions at public and private institutions, including: Adiacenze Bologna, Careof Milan, Villa Reale Monza, GAM Verona, Galleria Artericambi Verona, Museo Civico di Castelbuono Palermo, ArtVerona (award recipient), Quadriennale di Roma, Museo della Permanente Milan, Accademia di San Luca in Rome (award recipient), Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice (award recipient), Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery Venice, Galleria Civica di Modena, Biblioteca Braidense in Milan, National Gallery Ljubljana, Premio Suzzara in Mantua (award recipient), Fondazione Zanotto Prize in Verona (award recipient), Cicognani Galerie Kohl, Cavenaghi Arte Milan.

She has also given lectures at Libreria delle Donne, Libre Verona, Centro San Fedele Milan, and GAM Verona. She is co-founder and editor of fuoriregistro, a publishing project by Boîte Edizioni, Lugano, that investigates the relationship between education and contemporary art. She is the author of the short story L’ora del giorno, published by Leppi Lampi Labors, Turin, 2021.