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Biography - Francesco Clemente

Born

1952 Naples, Italy. Currently lives and works in Madras, India, Rome, Italy, and New York City.

One‑person Exhibitions

2006 Self-Portraits, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St. London, England
2005 Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2004 Drawings , Gagosian Gallery, Heddon St. London, England
Francesco Clemente: New Works, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland.
Francesco Clemente, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
Francesco Clemente: New Works, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,Ireland.
2003 Francesco Clemente: Paintings 2000 – 2003, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Francesco Clemente: Paintings 2000 – 2003, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2002 Francesco Clemente, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
The Book of the Sea, Gagosian Gallery, London
Clemente in Taos, The Harwood Museum of Art, The University of New Mexico, Taos.
2001 Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
Francesco Clemente: Painter’s Wardrobe, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.
1999 Clemente, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (through 2000).
Francesco Clemente: Opere su carta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy.
Francesco Clemente: Broken Women, Neue Pastelle, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
Kustsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1998 Portraits Obscured, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave New York, NY
Francisco Clemente: Three New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Francesco Clemente: Indian Watercolors, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Traveled to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN.
Francesco Clemente: The Paintings of the Gate, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
Francesco Clemente: Portraits, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fifty One Days on Mount Abu, Anthony d’Offray Gallery, London.
Francesco Clemente: Anamorphosis, Gagosian Gallery, New York.
1996 Francesco Clemente, Galerie Daniel Temple, Paris.
Francesco Clemente: New Works, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
1995 Mothers of Hope, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
Francesco Clemente: Frescoes and Pastels, Anthony d’Offray Gallery, London.
Francesco Clemente, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
Francesco Clemente: Works from 1980 to 1990, Peter Blum, New York
1994 Quentin Crisp meets Bunuel, Gagosian Gallery, NYC
1993 Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
New Paintings, Gagosian, NY
The Black Paintings, Gagosian, NY
1992 Testa Coda, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland; Gagosian Gallery New York, NY
Francesco Clemente, Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Clemente: Watercolors, Gagosian Gallery, NY
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Works on Paper 1974-1983, Leccese Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1991 Francesco Clemente: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Francesco Clemente, Perry Rubenstein, New York
Francesco Clemente: Recent Works, Galerie Templon, Paris
Francesco Clemente, Galerie Albrecht, Munich
1990 Clemente/Pastels, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Clemente: Three Worlds, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Clemente: A Retrospective of the Prints 1980-1990, Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia, PA
Francesco Clemente - New Editions, Crown Point Press, NY
Francesco Clemente: New Painings, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1989 Dia Art Foundation, NY
Story of My Country, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Francesco Clemente, Pace Prints, New York
Francesco Clemente/Woodcuts, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Sperone Westwater, NY
1987 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1986‑87 Francesco Clemente, (survey exhibition), John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FLA; traveled to The Temporary Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Sperone Westwater, NY
1985 Sperone Westwater, NY
Leo Castelli, NY
Mary Boone Gallery, NY
Woodcuts, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1984 Galleriat, Lund, Sweden
1982‑83 Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Clemente: The Fourteen Stations, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, Traveled to Groninger Museum, Groningen,
Germany; Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe; Moderna Museet,
Stockholm; Anthony d’Offay and Gian Enzo Sperone, London;
Mario Diacono, Rome.
Francesco Clemente‑Drawings, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Sperone Westwater and Mary Boone Gallery, NY
1982 Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Il Viaggiatore Napoletano, Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
1981 Sperone Westwater Fischer, Germany
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Holland
Anthony d’Offay, London, England
Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Clemente/Matrix 46, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley. Traveled to Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
1980 Sperone, Westwater Fischer, NY
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea de Milano, Milan, Italy
Art and Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Mario Diancono, Rome, Italy
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1979 Art and Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Giuliana de Crescenzo,Rome, Italy
Lucia Amelio. Naples, Italy
Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Italy
1977 Paolo Betti, Milan, Italy
1976 Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Lucrezia de Domizio, Pescara, Italy
1975 Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Franco Toselli, Milan, Italy
1974 Galleria Area, Florence, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2004 SITE Sante Fe’s Fifth International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (curated by Robert Storr), Santa Fe, NM (through 2005).
2000 David Salle, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave New York, NY
1998 Summer Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1997 Summer Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
1994 Gallery Bruno Bischofbeiger, Zurich
1993 Early Works - Julian Schnabel & Francesco Clemente, Akira Ikeda Gallery,
The Spirit of Drawing, Sperone Westwater, New York
1982-1983, Ten Years After, Tony Shagrazi Gallery, NY
Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, MN
Utopia, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Gagosian, NY
New York on Paper, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Metamorphosis-Surrealism to Organic Abstraction, 1925-1993,
Marlborough Graphics, NYC
1992 Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, MoMA, New York, NY
Recent Publications & Acquistions, Brooke Alexander Editions, NY
Illumination, Capital Cities/ABC, Art Advisory Service, MoMA, NY
Prints from Pace, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades, Palo Alto Cultural
Center, Palo Alto, CA
Age of Bronze, Ramnarine Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Mythologies contemporaines, Galerie Mansart, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
1991 Contemporary Woodblock Prints from Crown Point Press, the Leif E.
Johnson Memorial Exhibition, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FL
Clemente, Dorner, Iglesias, Mol, Sarmento, Louver Gallery, NY
Concerning Nature, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco, CA
Art in Iner Cultural Limbo, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
1990 Prints of the Eighties, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Woodblock Prints from the People’s Republic of China, Group Show, Crown Point Press, NY
Recent Releases, Crown Point Press, NY
1989 Landscape, Vrej Baghoomian, Inc.
Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou et Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
European Painting and Sculpture, L.A.Louver Gallery, NY
Contemporary Environment, General Electric, organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art
Paul Klee, Francesco Clemente, Papunya Tula, the Cultural Foundation, Polanco, Mexico
1988 Giant Prints, Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany
The M. Anwar Kamal Collection of Art, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
New Paintings: Chia, Clemente, Le Brun, Paladino, Richter, Rothenberg, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
Altered Images, Penson Gallery
Contemporary Environment, General Electric, organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art
1986 Figuration, the American Express Company in collaboration with the Art
Advisory Service of The Museum of Modern Art, NY
1984 Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
1983 New Italian Art, the New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Trustee’s Choice, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Bilder, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Artists from Sperone Westwater Fischer Inc.,” SVC/Fine
Arts Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
New Image/Pattern and Decoration, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Concetto‑Imago: Generationswechel in Italien, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Nigel Greenwood, Inc., London, England
Intoxication, Monique Knowlton, NY
New Work, New York, Newcastle Festival ‘83,
Newcastle‑upon‑Tyne, England
1982‑83 Rosa Esman Gallery, NY
Myth, The Bonlow Gallery, NY
1982 Issues: New Allegory I, Institute of Contemporary Art,Boston, MA
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Homo Sapiens: the Many Images, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
The Pressure to Paint, Marlborough Gallery, NY
Five Painters: Chia, Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel, Anthony d’Offay, London
New Works on Paper 2: Borofsky, Clemente, Merz, Penck, Penone, the Museum of Modern Art, NY
kunst nu/kunst unserer zeit, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven,
Wilhelmshaven, and Groninger Museum, Groningen
Avanguardia Transavanguardia 68, 77, Mura Aureliane, Rome, Italy
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Zeitgeist, Internationale Kunstausstellung, Berlin, Germany
How to Draw/What to Draw: Works on Paper by FiveContemporary Artists, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1981 Group show, Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
Westkunst, Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Cologne, Germany
1981 Paola Betti, Milan, Italy
Italians and American Italians, Crown Point Gallery Oakland, CA
Group show, Sperone Westwater Fisher, NY
Figures: Forms and Expressions, Buffalo, NY (jointly sponsored by:
Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, CEPA Gallery and Hallwalls)
Large Format Drawings, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, NY
Tesoro, Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
Aspects of Post‑Modernism, the Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1980 The Cut‑off Hand – 100 Drawings from Italy, Kunstverein, Bonn;
Stadtische Galerie
Wolfsburg; Groninger Museum, Germany
Egonavigatio, Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Francesco Masnata, Genoa, Italy
Aperto ‘80, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen; Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam)
Group show, Sperone Westwater Fischer, NY
Neuerwerbungen, Galerie Rudolph Zwirner,Cologne, Germany
1979 Perspective 79, Basel Artfair, Basel, Switzerland
Arte Cifra, Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Clemente, de Maria, Paladino, Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Europa 79, Stuttgart, Germany
Parigi, O Cara…, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Opere Fatte ad Arte, Palazzo de Citta, Acireale, Italy
Le Stanze, Colonna Castle, Genazzano, Italy
1978 Pas de deux, Galleria la Salita, Rome, Italy
1977 Drawing/Transparency, Studio Cannaviello, Rome, Italy
Wednesday 16 February 1977, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome,Italy
Tenth Biennale de Paris, Musee d’art Moderne, Paris, France
Progetto 80, Bari, Italy
1976 Merz, Pisani,Clemente, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1975 XII Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
24 Hours of 24, Galleria L’Attico, Rome, Italy
1974 Studenteski Center, Belgrad, Yugoslavia
1973 Italy Two, Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art & Project, Slootdorp, The Netherlands
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Bibliotheque National, Paris, France
Centro Cultural d’Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
El Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
The National Gallery, Victoria, Australia
New York Public Library, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Saatchi Collection, London
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums, New York and Bibao, Spain
Tate Gallery, London, England
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Selected Bibliography

West, Thomas. Figure Painting in an Ambivalent Decade, Art International, Winter, 1989.
Felver, Christopher. Artists in Close Up, Art International, Winter, 1989, p. 44.
Kuspit, Donald. Clemente Explores Clemente, Contemporanea, October, 1989, p. 36.
Drawings from the Series Il Viaciatore Napoletano, In This Corner, Volume 7, no. 5, June 1989.
Kent, Sarah. Turtles All the Way, Interview with Francesco Clemente, ArtScribe
International, September-October 1989, p. 54.
Cyphers, Peggy. Review of Dia Art Foundation Show, Arts, January 1989, p. 97.
Magnani, Gregorio. Francesco Clemente at Paul Maenz, Cologne, Review, Flash Art,
March-April, 1989, p. 119.
Chua, Lawrence. Francesco Clemente, Flash Art, January-February, 1989.
Ashbery, John. Under the Volcano, Interview, March 1988, p. 62
Hawthorne, Don. Prints from the Alchemist’s Laboratory, ArtNews, February, 1986, p. 89.
Francesco Clemente, Milwaukee Art Museum, Journal of the Print World, 1988, p. 30.
Brenson, Michael. Is Neo-Expressionism an Idea Whose Time Has Passed?, New York Times, Sunday, January 5, 1986, p. 1.
Hughes, Robert. Symbolist with Roller Skates, Time Magazine, April 22, 1985, p. 68.
Russell, John. Art: Tripleheader Show of Francesco Clemente, New York Times, April 5,
1985.
Gardner, Paul. Gargoyles, Goddesses & Faces in the Crowd, Art News, March 1985, p. 52.
Kuspit, Donald. Francesco Clemente at Mary Boone & Sperone Westwater, Art News,
November 1983.
Russell, John. The New European Painters, New York Times Magazine, April 24, 1983, p.
28.
Berger, Danny. Francesco Clemente at the Metropolitan: An Interview”, Print Collector’s
Newsletter, March/April 1982, p. 11.
DeAk, Edit. A Chameleon in a State of Grace, Art Forum, February 1981, p. 36.