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BIOGRAFIE
| 1952 | born in Naples, Italy |
| 1970 | enrolled as an architecture student at the Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy |
| 1971 | had his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Valle Giulia |
| 1972 | met Alighiero e Boetti in Rome |
| 1980 | participated in the Venice Biennale |
| 1981 | studied Sanskrit |
| 1981 - 1982 | created The Fourteen Stations, a series of twelve large oils |
| 1984 | collaborated with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol on a group of works |
| 2002 | lected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters lives and works in New York, NY; Rome, Italy; and Madras, India |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2010 | “A Private Geography”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. |
| 2009 | Shipwreck with Spectator 1974-2004, MADRE (Contemporary Art Museum Donnaregina), Naples, Italy |
| 2008 | Francesco Clemente and Ron Arad, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| 2007 | “Portraits”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Atlantic Avenue Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006 | Chairs, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich Self-Portraits, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, UK |
| 2005 | Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| 2004 | Happy Birthday, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Heddon Street, London, UK Francesco Clemente: New Works, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, 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, CA; Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy The Book of the Sea, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK Clemente in Taos, The Harwood Museum of Art, The University of New Mexico, Taos, NM |
| 2001 | Self Portraits, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy Francesco Clemente: Painter's Wardrobe, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK |
| 1999 - 2000 | Clemente, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain |
| 1999 | Broken Women- Neue Pastelle, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Francesco Clemente: Opere su carta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Kustsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 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; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Francesco Clemente: The Paintings of the Gate, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France Francesco Clemente: Portraits, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Fifty One Days on Mount Abu, Anthony d'Offray Gallery, London, UK Francesco Clemente: Anamorphosis, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Francesco Clemente, Galerie Daniel Temple, Paris, France Francesco Clemente: New Works, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
| 1995 | Paintings & Watercolors, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Mothers of Hope, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Francesco Clemente: Frescoes and Pastels, Anthony d'Offray Gallery, London, UK Francesco Clemente: Works from 1980 to 1990, Peter Blum, New York, NY |
| 1994 - 2002 | Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national de l'art moderne, Paris, France |
| 1994 | Quentin Crisp meets Bunuel, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY The Black Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992 | Testa Coda, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland; Gagosian Gallery New York, NY Francesco Clemente, Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Francesco Clemente: Watercolors, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany 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, NY Francesco Clemente: Recent Works, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Francesco Clemente, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany |
| 1991 | Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland |
| 1990 | Clemente/Pastels, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK 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, New York, NY Francesco Clemente: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1989 | Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, NY Story of My Country, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK Francesco Clemente, Pace Prints, New York, NY Francesco Clemente/Woodcuts, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1988 | Sperone Westwater, New York, NY |
| 1987 | Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1986 - 1987 | Francesco Clemente, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; The Temporary Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1986 | Sperone Westwater, New York, NY |
| 1985 | Sperone Westwater, New York, NY Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY Woodcuts, Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1984 | Galleriat, Lund, Sweden |
| 1983 | Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Francesco Clemente: The Fourteen Stations, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Germany; Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Anthony d'Offay and Gian Enzo Sperone, London, UK; Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy Francesco Clemente's Drawings, A Space, Toronto, Canada Sperone Westwater and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 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, Belgium Anthony d'Offay, London, UK Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Francesco Clemente/Matrix 46, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT |
| 1980 | Sperone Westwater, New York, NY Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea de Milano, Milan, Italy Art and Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mario Diancono, Rome, Italy Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy |
| 1979 | Lisson Gallery, London, UK Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy Giuliana de Crescenzo,Rome, Italy Lucia Amelio, Naples, Italy Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany |
| 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 |
| 1975 | Galerie Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy |
| 1974 | Galleria Area, Florence, Italy |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| New York Public Library, New York, NY The National Gallery, Victoria, Australia The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY El Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Centro Cultural d'Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico Bibliotheque National, Paris, France Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia Art & Project, Slootdorp, The Netherlands Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Tate Gallery, London, UK The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Saatchi Collection, London, UK Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
