Artists

Francesco Clemente

1952	Born in Naples
1970	Studied architecture at the University of Rome
1973	Travelled to India
1977-9	Lived in Madras
1981	Moved to New York City
	Currently lives and works in Rome, Madras and New York

One Man Exhibitions

1971	Galleria Valle Giulia, Rome
1974	Galleria Area, Florence
1975	Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin Massimo Minini, Brescia Franco Toselli, Milan
1976	Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Lucrezia de Domizio, Pescara
1977	Paola Betti, Milan
1978	Centre d'art Contemporain, Geneva Art & Project, Amsterdam (cat) Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
1979	Art & Project, Amsterdam Lisson Gallery, London Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (cat: text by Achille Bonito Oliva) Giuliana de Crescenzo, Rome Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin (cat) Lucio Amelio, Naples
1980	Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York Paul Maenz, Cologne (cat) Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Milan (cat text by Germano Celant) Art & Project, Amsterdam Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, and Mario Diacono, Rome
1981	Anthony d'Offay, London (cat) Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Zurich (cat: text by Rainer Crone) University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley: Francesco Clemente/Matrix 46. Exhibition travelled to The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (cat by Mark Rosenthal) Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York
1982	Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne (cat: essay by Rainer Crone and Paul Maenz) Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Zurich
1983	The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: Francesco Clemente: The Fourteen Stations. Exhibition travelled to Groninger Museum, Groningen; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Moderna Museet, Stockholm (cat: texts by Mark Francis and Henry Geldzahler) Anthony d'Offay and Gian Enzo Sperone, London: Francesco Clemente: The Midnight Sun. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya and Tokyo (cat) A Space, Toronto Sperone Westwater, New York Mary Boone, New York Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Ascan Crone, Hamburg James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1984	National Galerie, Berlin: Francesco Clemente: Pastels. Exhibition travelled to Museum Folkwang, Essen; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Tubingen Kunsthalle Basel Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo Mary Boone, Michael Werner Gallery, New York Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover: Francesco Clemente: Painting and Sculpture. (cat: text by Carl Haenlein) Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Francesco Clemente in Belfast (cat with interview by Giancarlo Politi)
1985	The Metropolitian Museum of Modern Art, New York Francesco Clemente: Prints 1981-85 (cat: interview by Danny Berger) Sperone Westwater, New York Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Mary Boone, New York Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, travelled. (cat: texts by Michael Auping and Francesco Pellizzi)
1986	14th Biennial, Adelaide Festival of Arts, Adelaide Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo (cat) Anthony d'Offay, London Sperone Westwater, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York: Departure of the Argonaut.
1987	Ascan Crone, Hamburg Parco Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (travelled) Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich: Zeichnungen Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich Fundacion Caja De Pensiones, Madrid: Francesco Clemente Affreschi Pinturas al Fresco. (cat: texts by Deigo Cortez, Rainer Crone and Henry Geldzahler) The Art Institute of Chicago: The Argentario Paintings Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel: Francesco Clemente: Zeichnungen and Aquarelle, 1971-1986. Travelled to Groninger Museum, Groningen; Ulmer Museum, Ulm; Musee de la Ville de Nice; Museum Ludwig, Koln; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne; Galerie im Taxispalias, Innsbruck. (cat)
1988	Milwaukee Art Museum: Francesco Clemente - The Graphic Work. Exhibition travelled to Saint Louis Art Museum, Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco Cabinet des Estampes, Promenade du Pin, Geneva: Le Depart des Argonautes des autres estampes. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Francesco Clemente: Fourteen Stations of the Cross. Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston Fundacion Joan Miro, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona: La Partenca de l'Argonauta. Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne Dia Art Foundation, New York: Funerary Paintings. (cat) Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1989	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London: Francesco Clemente: Story of My Country. Yvon Lambert, Paris: Francesco Clemente: Pastels Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, New York (cat: essay by Henry Geldzahler) Centro Culturale Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara: Francesco Clemente: Cinco Tapices Realizados En El Taller Mexicano De Gobelinos (Guadlajara, Jalisco, Mexico) (cat: texts by Raymond Foye, Henry Geldzahler and Sylvia Navarette)
1990	Salvador Riera Galeria d'Art, Barcelona Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York: Francesco Clemente: Ten Bad Mothers Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London: Francesco Clemente: Pastels Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art: Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds. Exhibition travelled to Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Royal Academy, London (cat) Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia: Francesco Clemente: A Retrospective of the Prints: 1980-90
1991	Kunsthalle Basel: Francesco Clemente: The Black Book (cat) Perry Rubenstein, New York: Francesco Clemente: Early Self-Portraits Galerie Beyeler, Basel Royal Academy of Arts, London Gagosian Gallery, New York. Exhibition travelled to Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland. (cat) Galerie Templon, Paris
1992	Leccese Spruth Galerie, Cologne Galerie Brune Bischofberger, Zurich Robert Stein Fine Art, St. Louis Gagosian Gallery, New York (cat) Galerie Michael Hass, Berlin (cat) Lococo Mulder, New York
1993	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London: Francesco Clemente: Paintings Sculpture and Works on paper from India (cat: text by Dieter Koepplin) Gagosian Gallery, New York: Francesco Clemente: The Black Paintings (cat: poems by Robert Creeley)
1994	Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich Musee National d'Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1995	Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo: Two Horizons (cat) Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London: Frescos and Pastels 1970-95 Jablonka Galerie, Köln (cat) Chateaux de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux: Francesco Clemente (cat) Helsinki Festival, Kunshalle Helsinki, Francesco Clemente (cat: text by Tatsumi Shinoda)
1996	Stadtische Galerie Altes Theater Ravensburg, Francesco Clemente: The Book of the Arrow Aquarelle (cat) Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Francesco Clemente Pastels 1979-1990
1997	Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, Francesco Clemente Portraits Whitney Biennial XLVIII Venice Bienale Guggenheim Bilbao, La Stanza della Madre Gagosian Gallery, New York, Francesco Clemente: Anamorphosis. (cat: poems by Robert Creeley) Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 24 April - 31 May 1997 Galerie Jerome de Noirment, Paris, The Painting of the Gate The Metropolitian Museum of Modern Art, New York, Francesco Clemente: Indian Watercolours
1998	Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
1999	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, Francesco Clemente: Painter's Wardrobe Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (cat) Jablonka Gallery, Cologne, Francesco Clemente: Broken Women Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

1973	Civic Centre Museum, Philadelphia: "Italy Two"
1974	Studenteski Centre, Belgrade
1975	Sao Paolo: XII Biennale Galleria l'Attico, Rome: "24 Hours out of 24" Galleria Diagramma, Milan: "Campo Dieci"
1976	Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome: "Merz, Pisani, Clemente"
1977	Studio Cannavielo, Rome: "Drawing/Transparency" Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome: "Wednesday 16 Febraury 1977" Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris: Tenth Biennale de Paris Bari: "Progetto 80"
1978	Galleria la Salita, Rome: "Pas de deux"
1979	Basel Artfair: "Perspective 79" Paul Maenz, Cologne: "Arte Cifra" Annemarie Verna, Zurich: "Clemente, de Maria, Paladino" Stuttgart: "Europa 79" Yvon Lambert, Paris: "Parigi, O Cara..." Palazzo di Citta, Acireale: "Opere Fatte ad Arte" Colonna Castle, Genazzano: "Le Stanze"
1980	Kunstverein, Bonn; Stadische Galerie Wolfsburg; Groninger Museum: "The Cut-off Hand - 100 Drawings from Italy" (cat) Kunstverein, Mannheim: "Egonavigatio" Francesco Masnata, Genoa Venice Biennale: "Aperto 80" Kunsthalle Basel. Exhibition travelled to Museum Folkwang, Essen; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat) Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne: "Neuerwerbungen"
1981	Daniel Templon, Paris Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Cologne: "Westkunst" Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California: "Italians and American Italians" (cat: essay by Kathan Brown) Buffalo, New York (jointly sponsored by Albright - Knox Gallery, CEPA Gallery and Hallwalls): "Figures, Forms and Expressions" (cat) Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York: "Large Format Drawings" Emilio Mazzoli, Modena: "Tesoro" The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey: "Aspects of Post-Modernism"
1982	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: "Issues: New Allegory I" Kassel, West Germany: Documenta 7 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Conneticut: "Homo Sapiens: the many images" (cat: introduction by Martin Sosnoff) Marlborough Gallery, New York: "The Pressure to Paint" (cat: text by Diego Cortez) Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London: "Five Painters: Chia, Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel" The Museum of Modern Art, New York: "New Works on Paper 2: Borofsky, Clemente, Merz, Penck, Penone" (cat: text by Bernice Rose) Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, and Groninger Museum, Groningen: "Kunst nu/kunst unserer zeit" Mura Aureliane, Rome: "Avanguardia Transavanguardia 68, 77" Emilio Mazzoli, Modena Internationale Kunstausstellung Berlin: "Zeitgeist" (cat: foreward by Christos Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal) The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York: "How to Draw/What to Draw: Works on Paper by Five Contemporary Artists" Rosa Esman Gallery, New York The Bonlow Gallery, New York: "Myth"
1983	The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland: "New Italian Art" The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conneticut: "Trustees' Choice" Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Louisiana Museum, Denmark: "Chia, Clemente, Cucchi" Emilio Mazzoli, Modena SVC/Fine Arts Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa: "Artists from Sperone Westwater Fischer Inc." Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI: "New Image/Pattern and Decoration" Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn: "Concetto-Imago: Generationswechsel in Italien" Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich Nigel Greenwood, London Monique Knowlton, New York: "Intoxication" Caja de Pensions, Madrid: "Italia: La Transvaguardia" Robert Miller, New York: "Surreal" Basel Art Fair, (Galerie Beyeler), Basel: "Expressionist Painting Beyond Picasso" The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton: "The Painterly Figure" The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York: "Recent European Painting" Emilio Mazzoli, Modena Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles: "Self-Portraits" Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sharpe Gallery, New York: "Self Image" Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki: "Ars '83 Helsinki" Tate Gallery, London: "New Art" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: "The First Show" Galerie Beyeler, Basel: "Expressive Malerie nach Picasso" Mary Boone Werner Gallery, New York Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn: "Hemisphere." Visual element in conjunction with Melissa Fenley performance at the Next Wave Festival
1984	Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya: "Painting Now" The Museum of Modern Art, New York: "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: "Images and Impressions: Painters who Paint" Sakowitz, Houston, Texas: "Sakowitz Festival del Designo Italiano" Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London The Boibrono Gallery, Stockholm: "Det Italienska Avantgardet" National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: "The Folding Image" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Galerie Leger, Malmo Galirie Amak, Berlin: "Made in NYC/LA" Sidney Janis, Dublin: "New Expressionists" The Guiness Hop Store, Dublin: "Rosc '84" Bonnier Gallery, New York: "Totem" Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya: "Painting Now" Stockholm Art Fair and Lunds Konsthall, Stockholm and Lund, Sweden: "Det Italienska Transvangardet" Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal: "Via New York" Antiope-France, Paris Sperone Westwater, New York Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Eaton Schoen Gallery, San Francisco Mary Boone Michael Werner, New York: "Drawings" Blum Helman, New York Villa Campolieto, Naples: "Terrae Motus" Sylvia Menzel, Berlin: "Portraits" Chicago Public Library Cultural Center in conjunction with the Renaisssance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago: "Contemporary Italian Masters" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco: "The Human Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Biennial III" Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich: "Collaborations, Basquiat, Clemente, Warhol" The Museum of Modern Art, New York: "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture" Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan: "Painting Now" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.: "Content: A Contemporary Focus" The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (travelled): "Images and Impressions"
1985	XXII Biennale of Paris, Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris Lawrence Oliver, Philadelphia: "Drawings" Herbert Palmer, Los Angeles: "Graphics" Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo: "Collaborations, Basquiat, Clemente, Warhol" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: "Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection." Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen: "7000 Eichen" The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon: "DIALOG" Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: "States of War" Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Anthony d'Offay, London: "Unique Books" The Museum of Modern Art, New York: "India and the Contemporary Artist" Genazzano: "Nuovo trame dell'arte" Mary Boone Michael Werner Gallery, New York: "BAM Benefit" Castelli di Rivoli, Turin: "Ouverture" Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha (travelled): "New Art of Italy" Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh: "The Carnegie International"
1986	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London ARCA, Marseilles Cincinatti Art Museum, Cincinatti: "New Visions in Contemporary Art" Blum Helman Gallery, London: "Portraits" Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: "In Tandem" Gabrielle Bryers, New York: "Homage to Nicolas A. Moufarrege." Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachaus, Munich: "Homage a Beuys" Quadriennale di Roma, Rome Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia: "Philadelphia Collects Art Since 1940" Stadmuseum Graz, Graz: "Steirischer Herbst '86" Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (travelled): "Focus on the Image"
1987	Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles: "Avante-garde in the Eighties" Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Printemps des Arts, Monte Carlo, France Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich: "Works on Paper" Wallach Art Gallery, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York (travelled): "Similia/Dissimilia - Modes of Abstraction in Painting, Sculpture and Photography Today" Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota (travelled): "The International Exhibition to End World Hunger"
1988	Galeria Eude, Barcelona: "Paladino-Cucchi-Clemente" Tatyana Grosman Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York: "For 25 Years: Crown Point Press" The New York City Ballet, New York: "Artists Series Projects" Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, "The Marshall Franklyn Collection" Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, "New Art on Paper" Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, "The Worls of Art Today" Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, "Europa Oggi - Europe Now" XLIII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, "The Impossible Self" Dia Art Foundation, New York, "Francesco Clemente and Robert Ryman" The Paenson Gallery, New York, "Altered Images (Portraits by the Artists based on images" Dan Al Set Gallery, New York, "The International Eighties"
1989	Royal Academy of Art, London, "Italian Art in the Twentieth Century" The Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, "The European Avant-Garde" Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, "They See God" (curated by Dennis Cooper and Tim Guest) Norha Haime Gallery, New York, "Master Prints" Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, "Magicians of the Earth" Charles Cartwright Gallery, Paris, "The Wanderes" Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York (travelled), "1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizi" Museum des 20, Jahrunderts, Wien: "Weiner Diwan - Sigmund Freud - heute" Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, "Head to Toe: Clemente, DeKooning, Dubuffet, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Rusha" La Fundacion Caixa de Pensions, "International Art in the Fundacion Caixa de Pensions"
1990	ARCO '90 Art Fair, Madrid, "Sperone Westwater Group Exhibition" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., "Culture and Commentary, an '80s Perspective" Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York "Disturb Me" Galerie Bellier, Paris, "Renaissance du Polyptyche chez les artistes contemporains" Kryier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica,"Prints and Multiples" Galeria Dau al Set, Barcelona, "Numbers One 1990" Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany, "Group Exhibition" Blum Helman Gallery and Germans van Eck Gallery, New York: "Artists for Amnesty" Fiorella Urbinati Gallery, Los Angeles: "Annual '2RC' Contemporary Graphics Exhibition" Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York: "Group Show" Daniel Varenne, Switzerland: "Chicago International Art" Nippon Convention Center, Tokyo: "Pharmakon '90" Turner and Byrne Gallery, Dallas: "The Shock of the Old" Franklin Furnace Archives, Inc., New York (travelled): "Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988" Runkel-Hue Williams Ltd, London: "Modern Masters IV" Moderna galeria Ljubljana and Galerie Thomas, Munich: "Art of the Eighties from the Thomas Collection" Galerie 1900-2000, Paris: "Conceptual Art Conceptual Forms." Jan Eric Lowenadler, New York: "FIAC, PARIS" Gallery Hibell, Yokyo: "Paradise on Doomsday: Modern Art Market '90"
1991	Phillipe Daverio Gallery, New York: "Modern Italian Drawings" Lorence Monk Gallery, New York: "Dead Heroes, Disfigured Love" Brooke Alexander Editions, New York: "Poets/Painters Collaborations" Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas: "Art Pro Choice 2" Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan: "Clemente, Paladino, Gli Anni '70" Jablonka Gallery, Koln: "Francesco Clemente, Peter Halley." Matthew Marks Gallery, New York: "Artists Sketchbooks" Robert Miller Gallery, New York: "Portraits on Paper" Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki: "Art 22'91" Independent Curators Incorporated, New York: "Drawn in the Nineties" Stuart Levy Gallery; Helander Gallery, New York: "Pools." Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York: "Prints of the Eighties" Pace Prints, New York: "Art Pro Choice II Print Portfolio"
1992	Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia: "Devil on the Stairs" The Museum of Modern Art, New York: "Allegories of Modernism, Contemporary Drawing" The San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, California: "Drawing Redux" (curated by Phyllis Tuchman Collecio d'art contemporani, Fundacio "la Caixa" Barcelona: "Tropismes." Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice: "Le Portrait dans l'art contemporain" Ho-Am Art Gallery, Korea: "The Italian Transavantgarde"
1993	Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Koln: "Drawings" Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York: "Early Works: Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel" New Jersey Centre for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey: "Self-Portrait: The Changing Self." Sperone Westwater, New York: "The Spirit of Drawing" Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York: "1982-1983: Ten Years After." Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio: "25 Years." National Portrait Gallery, London, "The Portrait Now." Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, "New York on Paper"
1994	The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas, "Contemporary Watercolours" Luhring Augustine, New York, "The Ossuary"
1995	Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conneticut, "A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties" Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, "Szenenwechsel"
1996	Berardo Collection at the Sintra Museum of Modern Art
1998	Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain, "Orientalisms, a contemporary approach" Natioanal Gallery of Victoria, Australia, "Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination" 242 Inc., New York, 'An Exhibition for Children'

Selected Bibliography

1981	"A Chameleon in a State of Grace" Edit deAk, Art Forum, vol.19, no.6 (February 1981) pp.36-41
1982	Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Francesco Clemente: Watercolours, Zurich. With an introduction by Rainer Crone The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Work on Paper 2: Jonatham Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mario Merz, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, catalogue by Bernice Rose
1983	Heiner Bastian, ed., Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Bielefeld. With an introduction by Wolfgang Max Faust Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Francesco Clemente: The Fourteen Stations. With a foreward by Nick Serota and essays by Henry Geldzhaler and Mark Francis Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1984	Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Francesco Clemente: Bilder und Skulpturen.
1985	Paul Gardner, "Gargoyles, Goddesses and Faces in the Crowd", ARTnews, vol.85, no.3, pp.52-59 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mezzanine Gallery, New York, An Exhibition and Sale: Francesco Clemente, Prints 1981-85, with an introduction by Henry Geldzahler and an interview with Clemente by Danny Berger
1986	David Shapiro, Francesco Pelizzi and Rainer Crone, "Collaboration: Francesco Clemente", Parkett, no.9, pp.16-81 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Francesco Clemente: Pastels 1980, London Francesco Clemente: India, Twelve Trees Press, Pasadena Sperone Westwater, Francesco Clemente: Two Garlands, New York Fundacion Caja de Pensions, Madrid, Francesco Clemente affreschi: Pinturas al fresco. With essays by Henry Geldzahler, Rainer Crone and Diego Cortez Dieter Koepplin, Francesco Clemente CVIII: Watercolours Adayar 1985, English text, Zurich
1987	Robert Storr "Realm of the Senses", Art In America, vol.75, no.11 (November) Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Purification of the Twelve, London John Weiners and Francesco Clemente, India: Francesco Clemente, Altadena, California: Twin Palms Publishers
1989	Francesco Clemente and Robert Creeley, IT, Zurich Francesco Clemente and Rene Ricard, Sixteen Pastels, London
1990	Philadelphia Museum of Art, Francesco Clemente: Three Worlds, Anne Percy and Raymond Foye with essays by Stella Kramrisch and Ettore Sottsass Salvadore Riera, Francesco Clemente, Barcelona Exra Pound, Cathay, New York, The Limited Editions Club. Introduction by Francesco Pellizzi; illustrated by Francesco Clemente (edition of 375)
1991	Galerie Beyeler, Francesco Clemente, Basel Gagosian Gallery, Francesco Clemente: Testa Coda, New York Gagosian Gallery, Francesco Clemente: The Black Book, New York
1992	Gagosian Gallery, Francesco Clemente: Evening Raga and Paradiso, New York Ho-Am Art Gallery, The Italian Transavantgarde: Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Korea Holland Cotter, Francesco Clemente, from Foreign Lands, The New York Times, October 23, p.C28
1993	Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, 25 Years, Cleveland Gagosian Gallery, Life and Death, New York Gagosian Gallery, Francesco Clemente: The Black Paintings, poems by Robert Creeley, New York
1994	Holland Cotter, Francesco Clemente, Parkett No. 40/41, pp.15-20 Gagosian Gallery, Francesco Clemente: There, poems by Robert Creeley, New York
1995	Sezon Museum of Art, Two Horizons, Tokyo
1997	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Francesco Clemente - Fifty One Days on Mount Abu, London Gagosian Gallery, Francesco Clemente: Anamorphosis, poems by Robert Creeley, New York Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, The Paintings of the Gate: Francesco Clemente, Text by Demosthenes Davvetas

Work in Public Connections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Art Institute of Chicago

Virginia Museum of fine Art, Richmond

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Fort Worth Museum of Art

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Tate Gallery, London

The British Museum, London

Saatchi Collection, London

Musee d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kupferstichkabinett

Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Emmanuel Hoffmann Stiftung, Basel

Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid/Barcelona

Louisiana Museum, Denmark

FAE, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Pully, Switzerland

National Gallery of Australia, Camberra

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City

Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art

Sezon Museum of Art

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