on a trip to India in 1985, The Hanuman Books included figures from Beat poetry, gay and trans culture, Warhol's Factory, and many more. Clemente continued to travel to India and also went to the American Southwest. Clemente's work was widely shown during the 1980s. His early large canvases, painted in 1981–1982, were exhibited in 1983 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and then in Germany and Sweden. In 1986 the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, mounted a travelling exhibition of his work. Clemente's Collaborations & Exhibitions, 1990s-2010 Clemente participated in the Biennale di Venezia in 1988, 1993, 1995 and 1997; in documenta in Kassel, Germany, in 1992 and 1997; and in the Whitney Biennial, also in 1997. In 1998 his work was used in the film Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Solo shows were held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1990; at the Sezon Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo in 1994 and at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Bologna in 1999. Clemente created a mural and lampshades for New York’s Hudson hotel, which opened in 2000. He also had solo shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2000; at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli in Naples in 2002–2003; at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2004; at Palazzo Sant'Elia in Palermo, in Sicily. In 2010, Clemente was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recent Works & Today In 2013, Clemente had a solo show at both the Coro della Maddalena in Alba and Santa Maria della Scala in Siena in 2016; and at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 2017. It was in 2015 that he exhibited the large-scale piece, Encampment, which is a group of immersive sculptural works shown Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts in 2015. It work was created in collaboration with local wood-block printers and artisans in Rajasthan and he found inspiration in the camouflage tents he saw along the border of India and Pakistan. Today, Clemente's work is in major public collections and institutions. Among these include: the Art Institute of Chicago; Miami Art Museum; Kunstmuseum Basel; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York. See also 265924 Franceclemente, asteroid References Further reading Seidel,