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.
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Style: Contemporary
Bald Eagle II
By Shelley Reed
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
Amore vince Tutto - White Horse palm tree bird, contemporary oil painting
By Ellie Hesse
Located in London, GB
Ellie Hesse was born in New York in 1972 but spent most of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales. Travel has always been an important feature of her life since then, exploring Asia an...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Zanni - Acrylic Painting, colourful, tropical, canvas
By Keng Wai Lee
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee is a painter trained to a high level. Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich nature impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Out of the Cold and Snow
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original oil painting on panel by artist Brandon Bailey, CA. Framed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vocabulary
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
"Jungle Glitch" -- Painting on Canvas, by Jenny Day
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
3D Painting of Wolf: 'The Hunter XIII'
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Leibniz Universe 15U - Contemporary and colorful underwater scene, Oil on canvas
Located in Dallas, TX
Gian Marco Capraro is fascinated by altered universes, dream states and idyllic states of being. Leibniz was a philosopher who wrote and deeply explored the “best of all possible wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
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
'In Stillness' original oil painting signed by Alayna Rose abstract birds
By Alayna Rose
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"In Stillness" is an original oil painting signed by the American artist Alayna Rose. While most of her work is purely abstract, with built-up layers of brightly colored paint, this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vapos #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
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
Acrylic, Canvas
Ghost Coast II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Marsh Keepers, a solo exhibition of environmental embroidery by Amélie Guthrie in celebration of the natural w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic
Afternoon Tea
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The watercolor artwork titled "Afternoon Tea" by Ashley Snyder transports viewers into a charming Victorian parlor, where the ambiance exudes an aura of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper
Osprey I (after Audubon)
By Shelley Reed
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
Guardians of the Light
By John Defeo
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
Brown Rabbit_ America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Animal Portrait_Earth Tones
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Brown Rabbit"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
12 x 12 in. ; 13.75 x 13.75 in. Framed
______________
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$5,600 Sale Price
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Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Conan Floating
By Amir Kerr
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
Oil, Canvas
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Worm-Martyr
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
They make a long journey to enjoy the warm rain. They help the soil keep it ventilated. They are favorites of fishermen and moles. And they die on the way to their dream. Just to fee...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
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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
$2,650
Acrylic Figurative Painting: 'Seriously Still Doing This Shit'
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began exhibiting his work in the East Village in the early 80’s. Since then his work has been featured in exhib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
"Circumstances" Oil painting 36" x 36" inch by Alina Shimova
Located in Culver City, CA
"Circumstances" Oil painting 36" x 36" inch by Alina Shimova
PURE SOUL series
Shimova cares about the conservation of the fauna. She draws public attent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meaning & Nothingness #8
By Casey Vogt
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
Pluck
Located in Bozeman, MT
"Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Acrylic, Canvas
"Purple Carp" Expressionist Nature Scene
Located in Austin, TX
"Purple Carp"
Artist: Bartolome Sastre
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas Size: 39.5" x 39.5"
Frame Size: 46" x 46"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bindu
Located in New York, NY
oil on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Turkmen Contemporary Art by Amir Kerr - Dog Days
By Amir Kerr
Located in Paris, IDF
Signed on reverse
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$4,800 Sale Price
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"Cindy in the Sky, " Acrylic on Canvas signed by Karen Hoepting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A cow jumps over a guitar in the abstract scene of International artist Karen Hoepting's 2003 "Cindy in the Sky." It is an acrylic on canvas, signed lower left, and titled upper righ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Animal Painting by Christine Pultz - The Baby Tiger
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, Oil
The Power of Love Oil Painting on Canvas Horse Woman Golden Cubism In Stock
By Theo Mackaay
Located in Utrecht, NL
The Power of Love Oil Painting on Canvas Horse Woman Golden Cubism In Stock
Ada Breedveld was born in Dordrecht at the start of the Dutch “Hunger winter” in 1944. Together with Ada’...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Uninhabited W.Waterfall
Located in New York, NY
"Uninhabited W.Waterfall"
oil on wood
6 x 8 inches
2023
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
September Uninhabited
Located in New York, NY
"September Uninhabited"
oil on wood
6 x 8 inches
2023
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Jinx
Located in New York, NY
"Jinx"
oil on panel
10 x 8 inches
2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,650
3D Painting of Wolf: 'The Hunter XXIX'
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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
Cougar
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
$2,650
Rattlesnake
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
Flat, painting inspired by Hawaii Fish, Red, black, Green, Oil, Ink on panel
Located in Riverdale, NY
Flat is Ink and Oil and Varnish on Wood Panel inspired by the Hawaii Flatfish. It is 20x20 filled with red, orange, black and green.
Carol Bennett spends all of her time surrounded...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil, Wood Panel
Beach Momentos 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Beach Momentos 1" is a beautiful rendering of shells and other seaside-found objects collected by the artist. As the artist has noted, "I found myself collecting bits of the beach e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Ink
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
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
Adore- Acrylic Painting, floral, colourful, tropical, canvas
By Keng Wai Lee
Located in London, GB
Keng Wai Lee’s gorgeously rich floral impressions are a synergy of decorative tableaux and depiction in paint on canvas of his memories and imagination.
“Using acrylic as a medium, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Broadmoor Swans
By Greg Ragland
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Original acrylic painting by artist Greg Ragland. Gallery wrapped canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The cage bird will dream of clouds Timothy Archer Contemporary art blue painting
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and pastel on paper
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Oil
6 of Clubs (large)
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a painting of an abstracted and re-imagined playing card with birds and textures writing. This card in particular is the 6 of clubs, larger version. The painting is mixed med...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, 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
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
Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 4)
Located in Columbia, MO
JERRY BERNECHE
Untitled (Cats & Dogs No. 4)
Colored pencil, gouache, and pastel on paper
30 x 22 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Color Pencil
Amateur Conclusions - Contemporary Diptych Mixed Media Violet + Green + Blue
By Binay Sinha
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Amateur Conclusions" is a contemporary work of art by Indian artist, Binay Sinha. His surrealistic style captures the balance of flora & fauna, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
$2,625 Sale Price
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Caballo y Personajes (Horse and Characters)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza
Caballo y Personajes (Horse and Characters), 2022
Acrylic, ink and gold leaf on paper
Unframed dimensions: 29.75 x 22 inches
Framed dimensions: 39 x 27 inches
This o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Take A Moment to Look at the Moonlight, Even when Wolves Are Closing In
By John Defeo
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
Canvas, Acrylic
"Calica" (FRAMED) Painting 14.5" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Calica" (FRAMED) Painting 14.5" x 20" inch by Antonio Pelayo
Medium: Pencil on Paper, Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate
Size: 12" x 17" inch
Size framed: 14.5" x 20" inch
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Ink, Acrylic
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
The haunted horse Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century painting Iranian outsider art
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper
Hand-signed lower right
« Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival.
Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bull
Located in New York, NY
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$1,800
The Cosmic Twins Return
By Todd Horton
Located in Bozeman, MT
Todd Horton lives and paints full time on Samish Island, Washington. His work involves landscape and wildlife with elements of chance that play between realism and abstraction.
His work was recently featured in Seattles' Davidson Gallery "Exceptional" show and awarded a "Merit of Excellence" from a PONCHO Art Auction. Horton's paintings were also featured at the Museum of Northwest Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Note Taking" Contemporary Surrealist Watercolor, hummingbird, pencil, notebook
Located in New York, NY
A turquoise blue, emerald, violet, viridian and light green hummingbird perches on a spiral bound notebook with a pencil in its beak is depicted in this watercolor painting by New Yo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
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