05/29/2026
Vito Schnabel Gallery is showcasing Francesco Clemente until May 30th,2026. 455 West 19th Street.
Francesco Clemente was born in 1952 in Naples, Italy. He studied architecture at the UniversitĂ degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza in Rome in 1970, before turning his focus instead to art.
In the late 1970s and early â80s, at a time when painting had been declared obsolete, Clementeâs work- together with other artists of his generation- played a significant role in the revival of the medium. After moving to New York in the 1980s, Clemente pioneered, through his nomadic lifestyle, the image of the artist engaged globally. He is a master of the many mediums that fall within the tradition of paintings, from fresco to watercolor to oil and mixed media pigments on canvas.
Clementeâs work has been presented at numerous international institutions, including Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum fĂźr Gegenwartskunst, Basel:
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts, London; MusĂŠe National dâArt Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Galleria dâArte Moderna, Bologna; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli; and Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Francesco Clemente lives and works in New York, Chennai, and Varanasi, India.
