Michele Guido’s practice has long focused on the relationship between nature and architectural space, gravitating towards the figure of the garden as a place where the natural element meets the mental imprint. Across installation, sculpture, drawing and photography, he sections plant elements and stratifies drawings to extract the modular geometries that belong to the genetic structure of plants, in dialogue with the analytical discoveries of modern botany and the proportional thinking of the Renaissance — Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Piero della Francesca, Raphael. The complex multidisciplinary projects gathered under the rubric of *garden project* trace formal analogies between the vegetal world, scientific research, geographical migrations and the cultural histories of the places to which the plants belong, while more recent works explore botanical aberrations such as galls — natural temples produced by interspecific relations between plants and insects.

In 1997 he moved to Milan to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, graduating in 2002 and following with a Master in Landscape Design; in 1999 he was selected for the residency at Centro T.A.M., directed by Eliseo Mattiacci, where he met Hidetoshi Nagasawa, a key figure in his subsequent research. From 2001 to 2007 he kept a studio at the Casa degli Artisti in Milan. He has taken part in Manifesta 12 in Palermo with the *Ceiba Garden Project* at Palazzo Oneto (2018), and has held solo and two-person exhibitions at Lia Rumma in Naples, Fondazione Merz in Turin, Galleria Z2O Sara Zanin in Rome, Palazzo Borromeo in Milan, Museo MACTE in Termoli, Museo della Ceramica in Savona and the Museo Carlo Zauli in Faenza. In 2020 he received the PAC – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea award. He lives and works in Milan.