His collaborations include working with French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, English composer Michael Nyman,[1] artists Gilbert & George, Ugo Rondinone and Liam Gillick, jazz singer Amalia Grè, supermodel Eva Riccobono, actors Saleh Bakri, Alba Rohrwacher, and psychoanalyst Luigi Zoja.

Recent solo institutional exhibitions include: The Reverse Grand Tour, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2013); The Sphere of the Between, Korea Foundation, Seoul (2015); What Education for Mars?, Museo Marino Marini, Florence[2] (2015); Portami al Confine, MUSMA, Matera[3] (2016); Valerio Rocco Orlando, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago[4] (2017); Dialogue with the Unseen, MUDEC Museo delle Culture, Milan[5] (2019).

His first project (The Sentimental Glance, 2002-2007) is a seven-channel video installation built like a stratified Bildungsroman populated by the portraits of six young women on the threshold between childhood and adulthood, passion and loneliness, melancholy, maternity and androgyny.

[6]Dealing with themes such as the relationship between artists and society (The Reverse Grand Tour, 2012), the feelings of newer generations towards folklore (Bisiàc, 2007), the exchanges between a couple (Lover’s Discourse, 2010)[7] and within a school as an institution (What Education for Mars?, 2011-2013).

[8] By defining art as a process of analysis and mutual knowledge, Valerio Rocco Orlando explores and tells everyday life stories, taken from personal and social context, recomposing them as the pieces of a mosaic within an image of the whole.