Skip to main content

Contemporary Animal Paintings

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.

to
301
767
421
354
411
707
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
81
2,579
1
6
8
18
36
725
465
416
292
205
194
101
98
89
47
27
26
10
1,030
957
634
792
787
481
443
429
194
158
154
152
123
119
116
108
96
93
91
80
74
69
67
2,444
1,356
1,282
1,234
920
278
75
41
37
35
785
551
1,800
621
Style: Contemporary
Lost without you
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Bald Eagle II
Located in Bozeman, MT
Reed borrows visual fragments from predominantly seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Northern European art, citing the artists of these works like a dutiful scholar. She copies and r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Poolside at the Dupont
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Poolside at the Dupont" is a striking watercolor on rag paper that beautifully depicts a vintage 1950s leisure scene. The artwork depicts two women perched by a pool likely gossipin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper

Funeral for an Eagle
Located in Bozeman, MT
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from every...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel

Whale Shark Migration. Beautiful Painting 1/23 more Ocean Pieces
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements create in their works of art. They are driven by the optical and physical sensation materials become on their unique canvasses. This artwork´s unique and neutral colors make it easy to blend perfectly well in any surrounding. Be sure check out the other 23 outstanding ocean animal paintings of this series done with the same technique. They are ideal for collage format placement on walls. Mexican Contemporary Art. Watercolor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Indonesian Contemporary Art by Kusbudiyanto - Zise
Located in Paris, IDF
Kusbudiyanto is an Indonesian artist born in 1969 who lives & works in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Best Friends Series IV, Comic animal modern pop art painting Pig&Chick, In stock
Located in Kuala Lumpur, MY
WANG ZHI WU 王志武 1984 China Wang Zhi Wu is well-known by personifying animals in his paintings. Animals in Wang’s paintings have cartoon-liked shapes. Their images mix with differe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rider and the Pink Dragon, Pop art contemporary style, bold painting with horse
Located in Dallas, TX
Heroes and Riders are among Apostolos Chantzaras' favourite themes. The story of a hero or saint fighting a dragon is universal, and understood throughout many cultures. With his own...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Icy Blast
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is a Seattle-based artist collaboration between Duffy De Armas and Stefan Hofmann. Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Glass, Acrylic Polymer, Ink

Meaning & Nothingness #3
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting and collage on a circular panel. "By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

House Paint, Panel, Archival Paper

Toucan in desert: “No Mirage”
Located in New York, NY
"A Toucan looks out at a scorching desert landscape, a bird of the tropical rainforest. It is no mirage that our planet is warming to the point of severe loss of species and habitat."
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Getting Ready for a Night Ride
Located in Bozeman, MT
Piggott finds resonance and beauty in the familiar. His subjects, anchored in the stuff of the every day, are quietly captured in a moment of time. Each composition speaks to the art...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Free Mind" Painting 48" x 60" inch by Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Free Mind" Painting 48" x 60" inch by Alina Shimova ABOUT Alina Shimova is a young and ambitious artist from Moscow, Russia. Her creative journey b...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Coming On
Located in Bozeman, MT
Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - The Morning News
Located in Paris, IDF
Mass Information is an awfully great way to manipulate mood. We receive information even when we are not looking for it. But we have the freedom to choose the interest for ourselves....
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Jungle Glitch" -- Painting on Canvas, by Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Ink

The Dragonfly Night Cycle. Beautiful painting done on unique book canvass
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Extraordinary Movement 3"- Vibrant, Colorful Coy Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
CAM’s work can be seen as a moving meditation on the very nature of transformation and the notable significance of challenge as a rite of passage to sacred change. Concerned with how we ultimately face the difficulties of life, his work offers visual cues that remind us of the fortitude of our humanity and inherent capacity to face, navigate and ultimately transcend all limitations. CAM’s art combines his early fascination with stained glass and the energy of the urban landscape with symbols of freedom, strength, resilience and well-being. Using animal totems...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Preening Crane
By Ewoud de Groot
Located in Bozeman, MT
Ewoud de Groot lives and works in Egmond aan Zee, a coastal village in the north of the Netherlands. Born in 1969 in Alkmarr, he attended the Minerva Academy of Art, and received a degree in illustration and painting. After illustrating nature books...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Korean Art - Fantasy Jejuisland, Island Girl Story Chun-Ja Healing Garden
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork framed - white & wooden frame Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bittern (after Oudry)
Located in Bozeman, MT
This particular piece is sized at 71 x 93 inches. This sizing is composed of nine individually framed pieces to create the whole painting. Reed's primary focus has been the rich vei...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Archival Paper

Detailed Watercolor and Ink Ocean Theme Painting
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Perception of Perception
Located in Paris, IDF
Born in Turkmenistan, in the sunny city of Ashkhabad. From his youth was into artistic activities, currently the earlier works are kept in the family archives. In 2002 moved to Mosco...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Robot Dog 4th Generation Aibo
Located in New York, NY
Aibo 4th Generation, 2018 Hand embellished monoprint on canvas 21 7/10 × 29 1/2 in 55 × 75 cm Sophia’s Safehouse in an Uncanny Valley examines the rece...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Monoprint

Untitled (Deer Sketch)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Allison McIntyre (b. 1999 West Virginia) pulls from animal imagery and digital aesthetics to respond to contemporary human-animal relations, wrestling with issues such as the climate...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Free fall into tiny stars" -- Painting on Canvas, by Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Wrapped in Kindness
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Teppei Ikehila is a Japanese artist born in 1978 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan. He is graduated from Shimane University in 2001. Since 2000, he has held many private exhibitions at the Shimane Art Museum, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery for project N, and H.P France Window Gallery among others. He was selected for the Taro Okamoto...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Guardians of the Light
Located in Bozeman, MT
Johnny Defeo’s work belongs to the concept of souvenir, attempting to capture the experiences he has in the natural world, where he feels free and most at home. His paintings and rug...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 11)
Located in Columbia, MO
JERRY BERNECHE Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 11), 1965 Charcoal on paper 28.5 x 22.5 inches
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Graphite

Infernus #1
Located in Bozeman, MT
Electric Coffin is coded within art history and ideologies from archetypes of mysticism. We explore found truths from modernity and a personal historical perspective. A process-drive...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 9)
Located in Columbia, MO
JERRY BERNECHE Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 9) Charcoal on paper 22 x 17 inches
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Charcoal

Jaws of Hell
Located in Columbia, MO
METRA MITCHELL Jaws of Hell 2023 Oil on panel 48 x 36 inches
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Korean Art - Fantasy Jejuisland - Island Girl Story Chun-Ja Healing Garden
Located in Paris, IDF
Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean Takashi Murakami.
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

French Contemporary Animal Painting by Christine Pultz - Laïra
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas Christine Pultz is a French animal painter born in 1953 who lives & works in Pontault-Combault, France. Through her passion for pain...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Four Fiber Wall Hangings: 'The Masks We Wear Series, Tiger, Teddy, Owl, Horse'
Located in New York, NY
Environmental Advocacy "I will inhale smoke and exhale butterflies" This quote, gleaned from a dream, encapsulates my need to take man’s pollution of this world and transform it into...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Thread, Mixed Media

Bullish 2
Located in Brooklyn, NY
CAM’s work can be seen as a moving meditation on the very nature of transformation and the notable significance of challenge as a rite of passage to sacred change. Concerned with ho...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

French Contemporary Art by Jean-Marc Teillon - L'Ours
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse Jean-Marc Teillon is a French artist born in 1856 who lives & works in Arcueil, France. He was formerly director of Galerie Municipale Julio Gonzalez in Arcueil.
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fisherman-3, Oil on Canvas, Yellow, Green, Brown, Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Shipra Bhattacharya - Fisherman-3 Oil on Canvas 35 x 40 inches (unframed size) , 1989 ( Framed & Delivered ) Style : Shipra , is a leading contemporary mid career artist of India....
Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stag
Located in Bozeman, MT
"By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/presen...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Paper

Brian Leo 'Crisco Saves'
Located in New York, NY
Brian Leo Cookie 2018 Acrylic on stretched canvas 10 x 10 inches Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rutgers’ Ma...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Brian Leo 'Grizzly School'
Located in New York, NY
Brian Leo Grizzly School 2018 Acrylic on stretched canvas 10 x 10 inches Brian Leo was born in New Jersey in 1976, and is currently living in New York City. He is a graduate of Rut...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled, Acrylic on Fabriano Paper, Red, Green Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurucharan Singh - Untitled - 29.5 x 22.5 inches (Unframed Size ) Acrylic on Fabriano Paper ( Framed & Delivered ) Born 1949 Exhibitions : Sele...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Run Run Rabbit_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Animal Portrait_Brown
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin "Run Run Rabbit" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas 18 x 18 in. ; 19.75 x 19.75 in. Framed ______________ Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based Ameri...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Lost World No.2
Located in Paris, IDF
The panda is regarded as the national treasure of China and they are very well protected. Along with the pace of modernisation, traditional culture is being forgotten and many many o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Zen
Located in Paris, IDF
The expansion of human cities has caused the living space of wild animals to become smaller and smaller. Countless wild animals are on the verge of extinction because they have lost ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Paradise Lost
Located in Paris, IDF
Hutong is typical building of old Beijing, beautiful and quite, which is also a reflection of traditional clulture, for hundreds of years. There were more than 3,300 hutongs in old Beijing. Today, it is really hard to find an original hutong. They are vanished, replaced by new buildings. This artwork shows ruins of old hutong. The red sign "北大吉巷" that fell on the ground is its name. The upper part of the picture shows the modern city being built by human beings. On the left of old wall, there is Chinese character '拆', means tear down. On the bottom, there is beautiful gate...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Colt Dragoon
Located in Bozeman, MT
Biography Creating paintings inspired by western movies and by Remington and Russell, he is a native of the West, having been born and raised in rural Colorado. He studied art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder where he earned a Master's Degree in 1979. For two decades he worked as curator at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, before leaving in 1999 to begin work as a full-time painter and independent curator. His work is in the collections of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; the Art Museum of Missoula; and the Yellowstone Art Museum; the Federal Reserve Bank in Helena, Montana; and the Deaconness Medical Center in Billings, Montana. Artist Statement For a long time, the images in my paintings have been identifiably, even iconically, western-stagecoaches and false-front main streets, poker games and gun battles, cowboys, Indians, cavalry troopers and horses, all suspended in a choreographed matrix of dancing paint. Distinct from the traditional western genre-which inventories the minutia of cowboy gear...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Steppe. Outstanding warm water color rhinoceros painting
Located in Mexico City, MX
This beautiful African animal painting is perfect for adding warm light and color to the space designed. The mixture of colors: yellow, orange,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Watercolor

San Giorgo Oil Painting on Panel Dragon Boy Saint In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
San Giorgo Oil Painting on Panel Dragon Boy Saint In Stock Tino Luciano (1953, Sardinië) Like most artists, Luciano started painting at an early age. His paintings can be considered...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Blue Fin. Perfect Piece for Ocean Beach Front Homes
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Animal Painting #09-6574 (deer)
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture. Les Thoma...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Encaustic, Oil, Panel

The avian mage Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting pastel blue bird animal
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and pastel on paper Unique work Hand-signed lower right by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Oil

Desire
Located in Bozeman, MT
Artist Statement: My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new tho...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Graphite

Wild Horse, abstract, figurative oil on linen, rich bold colors
Located in Dallas, TX
Toni Franović was born in Zagreb on April 15th, 1964. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he studied under professor Vasilije Jordan. In 1992/93 he joined t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cotton Canvas

Crabwise. Beautiful Animal Water Color Ocean Painting
Located in Mexico City, MX
The two artists and industrial designers, Ampi Arozarena and Elena De La Fuente describe form and color as their core of exploration. They admire the dual identity the two elements c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

The wind of change Timothy Archer 21st Century Contemporary painting bird blue
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Signed lower right by the artist
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fiber wall hanging: 'The Masks We Wear Series, Tiger'
Located in New York, NY
Environmental Advocacy "I will inhale smoke and exhale butterflies" This quote, gleaned from a dream, encapsulates my need to take man’s pollution of this world and transform it into...
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Thread, Mixed Media

Dog Dream, Cattle Call
Located in Bozeman, MT
A wonderful painting by Annie Coe of a surreal landscape with a corgi dreaming of dancing cattle in the night sky. Vibrant colors and a masterful touch creat...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Contemporary animal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary animal paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add animal paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Jeff Conroy, Arozarena De La Fuente, and John Defeo. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary animal paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for animal paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $98 and tops out at $437,000, while the average work sells for $3,497.

Recently Viewed

View All