Valerio Berruti was born in Alba, Piedmont, in 1977. He graduated in Art Criticism from the D.A.M.S. program in Turin and lives and works in Verduno (Cuneo), in a deconsecrated 17th-century church that he purchased and restored in 1995.
In 2009, Berruti was the youngest artist invited to the 53rd Venice Biennale, where he presented a video animation, La figlia di Isacco, composed of 600 drawings accompanied by music by Paolo Conte.
More recently, he held a solo exhibition at the Pola Museum of Art in Tokyo titled Kizuna, featuring a soundtrack specially composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Kizuna also became a charitable project supporting the reconstruction of Japan following the devastation caused by the earthquake.
In 2012, Berruti won the international prize “Luci d’Artista.” His light installation, titled Ancora una volta, illuminated Via Accademia delle Scienze in Turin.
