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
Maybelle
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Acrylic, Thread
Kunsthaus Garden
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Oil, Panel
"Big Rock" Photorealism & Surrealist Style Painting Mixed Media on Wood Board
Located in New York, NY
Santiago Fuente Bo pieces are exceptionally high in detail, but as well are playful and thought provoking. He is influenced with the ever-changing idea of what home means. His consta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Home" Photorealism & Surrealist Urban Style Painting Mixed Media on Wood Board
Located in New York, NY
Santiago Fuente Bo pieces are exceptionally high in detail, but as well are playful and thought provoking. He is influenced with the ever-changing idea of what home means. His consta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Aspinall
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
String Theory (Gold)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
String Theory (Blush)
Located in New York, NY
“String Theory (Dusk)” by Allison Green depicts a spherical, leafy birdcage containing two birds against a pale pink background. The painting is part of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tide
Located in Miami, FL
Tide is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This blue, purple and green tons expressionist painting is inspired from horses walking on the beach, alon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mexican Silver Grizzly
By Yang Maoyuan
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a black and white painting on paper by Yang Maoyuan of a grizzly bear.
Mexican Silver Grizzley was painted in 2007 by contemporary artist Yang M...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Sin titulo
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media on paper, this painting by Latin American artist Carlos Luna, depicts an abstracted and stylized horse running again a blue filagreed background with a man and woman lo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Sin titulo
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
mixed media on paper
Signed lower right.
Carlos Luna’s oeuvre is an amalgam of native Cuban influence from twentieth century artists such as Wifredo Lam, Mario Carreño, and Cund...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Tigers - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Oil, Canvas, Animals
By Corvengi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
“Everything that surrounds me affects me. Memories, politics, nature, people, a dry leaf on the ground, music and books.”
Corvengi’s works explore his version of a lost paradise, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ascension (Pink)
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Hunt Slonem's "Ascension (Pink)" presents a mesmerizing display of white butterflies gracefully floating across a background adorned with pink and gold scores. The delicate beauty of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boudicca
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 world and humanity's responsibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread
A Louisiana Wild Heart 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 world and humanity's responsibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread
A Louisiana Wild Heart I
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 world and humanity's responsibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread
Theia
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 world and humanity's responsibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread
Artemis (diptych)
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 world and humanity's responsibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread
Hot Damn
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 world and humanity's responsibi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread
Harmony Over Reeds IV
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Reynolds’ most iconic subjects, hummingbirds. This piece depicts two multicolored hummingbirds mid-flight over a teal and silver reflecting pond. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
3 Play
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
The Jungle Dwellers
By Alex Beard
Located in New Orleans, LA
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gestural painting, which he has coined “Abstract Natura...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Puffin
By Alex Beard
Located in New Orleans, LA
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gestural painting, which he has coined “Abstract Natura...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
The Rock Hopper Penguin
By Alex Beard
Located in New Orleans, LA
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gestural painting, which he has coined “Abstract Natura...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Spoonbill
By Alex Beard
Located in New Orleans, LA
American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gestural painting, which he has coined “Abstract Natura...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
The two elephants Moreno Pincas Contemporary art painting circus animals pastel
Located in Paris, FR
OIl painting on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Cardinals Virgina"
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Single Owl
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Single Owl
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Tips
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Blue Tips
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Pro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cardinals
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Cardinals
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Pro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sun Set
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Sun Set
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Prove...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ray's Walk
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Ray's Walk
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 24.5" x 10"
Framed Dimensions: 29.5" x 25.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
A hunting ground in paradise Mohammad Ariyaei Contemporary Iranian art animals
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed lower left by the artist
THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF MOHAMMAD ARIYAEI
" Gentleness and oriental wisdom follow the supercharged bu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sven by Dawne Raulet Contemporary Deer Mixed Media with Black, White
By Dawne Raulet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stockbroker turned artist Dawne Raulet stumbled into painting when she least expected it. Frazzled by a fulltime financial career and two small infants at home and in desperate need ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Carla
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Carla
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 13.5" x 11.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Proven...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jane
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Jane
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Provenance:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
3 Hyacinths
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Birds. This piece depicts gestural figures of bold blue hyacinth macaws against a white landscape. Slonem paints the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Macaws
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Hunt Slonem (b. 1951, Kittery, ME) is an American artist best known for his “maximalist” paintings of wildlife exotica—most famously birds, rabbits and butterflies. Drawing inspirati...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Caligne' Contemporary portrait painting of a woman, gold leaf, blue and bird
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Caligne' by Ignacio Trelis, is a contemporary figurative painting. Showing a beautiful woman with long black flowy hair being circulated by a black flying crow. Blue swirls encompas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Foil, Gold Leaf
Castle Hop
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Castle Hop
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 13" x 11"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Prove...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
More Forest
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: More Forest
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Prov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Screach
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Screach
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15.5" x 13.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Prov...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Penelope
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Penelope
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Provena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Marmoset" Contemporary Grey Toned Abstract Pop Art Animal Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract animal painting by contemporary artist Tyler Casey. The work features a gestural depiction of a marmoset with the word "Tylenol" written above it. Signed in the front lower ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Alligator" Contemporary Green Toned Abstract Pop Art Animal Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract animal painting by contemporary artist Tyler Casey. The work features a gestural depiction of an alligator with the phrase "Call if you see an alligator in Texas" written ab...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Baboon" Contemporary Colorful Abstract Pop Art Animal Mixed Media Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract animal painting by contemporary artist Tyler Casey. The work features a gestural depiction of a baboon with the word "yes?" written above it. Signed in the front lower right...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Rhino" Contemporary Grey Toned Abstract Pop Art Animal Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract animal painting by contemporary artist Tyler Casey. The work features a gestural depiction of a rhino with the phrase "you've lost that loving feeling?" written above it. Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Lost without you
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
"The Wild West and a lurking slip" -- 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
"Happiness Is On My Kick Scooter" Contemporary Framed Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Happiness Is On My Kick Scooter” is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Nathalie Boissonnault, depicting an origami ostrich playing on a scooter. Boissonnault's technique of laye...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Paper
December Angus Dr. #16
Located in Denver, CO
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Broadview Angus Dr. #16
Located in Denver, CO
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mellon
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a pastel pink background with thick use of paint. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
3 Bunnies Blues
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: 3 Bunnies Blues
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 22.5" x 18"
Framed Dimensions: 25" x 20.5"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swing Time
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Swing Time
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 41" x 33"
Framed Dimensions: 51" x 41"
Signature: Signed
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Guadalajara
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
This colorful neo-expressionist oil painting depicts 5 vibrantly colored Amazons against a midnight blue background. The piece is housed in a beautiful, ornate 20th century gold fram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Doe A Deer by Dawne Raulet Contemporary Animal Mixed Media with Black
By Dawne Raulet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stockbroker turned artist Dawne Raulet stumbled into painting when she least expected it. Frazzled by a fulltime financial career and two small infants at home and in desperate need ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
Nearest and Deer-est by Dawne Raulet Contemporary Animal Mixed Media with Black
By Dawne Raulet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Stockbroker turned artist Dawne Raulet stumbled into painting when she least expected it. Frazzled by a fulltime financial career and two small infants at home and in desperate need ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
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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.
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