Contemporary Portrait 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.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Purple
Face No. 103, 2018
By John Casado
Located in Burlingame, CA
A face in multi colors, including mainly bone with red, grey and white. Acrylic painting on paper is 14 x 11 inches. Part of the artist's new series begun in 2017 of anonymous face...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Unstoppable
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Unstoppable" is a mesmerizing artwork that immediately captivates the viewer's attention. The central focus of the piece is a woman with her hair beautifully woven and elegantly pac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devil Drive /// Contemporary Painting Canvas Funny Pop Street Art Car Driving
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Devil Drive"
*Signed and dated by May upper right
Year: 1998
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on heavy wove paper
Sheet size: 28.13" x 21.6...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Paint
Reality
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Kate Moss Icon VIII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Portrait Fashion Model UK
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Kate Moss Icon VIII"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2023
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Canvas size: 36" x 36"
Condition: The stretched canvas was custom built by the artist himself. In mint condition
Notes:
Katherine Ann Moss (1974-) is an English model and businesswoman. Born in Croydon, Greater London, she was recruited as a model in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Management. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
Cowboy /// Contemporary Pop Portrait Painting Funny Man Sheriff Dan May American
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Cowboy"
*Signed by May upper right
Circa: 2020
Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on Board
Framing: Framed in a contemporary black moulding
F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board, Panel
Tattoo me 2 2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tattoo me 2
2002., Cardboard, mixed media, 153x117 cm
Juris Utāns (1959-2022)
was a Latvian painter. Worked in the field of critical realism, socially a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Cardboard
"Heat Lightning Herald II" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Amanda Seckington's "Heat Lightning Herald II" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a face transposed over a red and blue stormy skyscape.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Woman in Blue_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Portrait, Figurative_Bust
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman in Blue"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
31.5" x 31.5" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration from h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Oil
Cate Blanchett Icon III /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Model Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Cate Blanchett Icon III"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
Splash
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Beach days are magical, and this little girl running and splashing in the surf was relishing her new-found freedom and expressing all the joy to be found on a summer day at the ocean...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Self Possesed
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Resilience
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Boy with Doves in Blue_2022_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic/Canvas_Portrait
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Boy with Doves in Blue"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
62" x 42" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Navi, Chilling in Summer Shades
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting is a quick reminder that people should not be afraid to use their voices. Your thoughts, opinions, and ideas are just as important as anybody else's. When you speak, sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pen
Untitled
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This is a delightful piece of art. It expresses the hope of the common man amidst the everyday experiences that beset him. He is challenged to look beyond the current hardship and vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Defiance II
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Apollo Icon /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Mythology Portrait Painting Colorful
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-)
Title: "Apollo Icon"
Series: Icon
*Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso
Year: 2022
Medium: Original A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
Sylvester
Located in New York, NY
Sylvester
2022
Signed
Binder and glitter on acrylic
30 x 30 inches (73.2 x 76.2 cm)
Sylvester was an American disco icon, known for his flamboyant and androgynous persona. Sylvester was a member of the Cockettes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Plastic, Glitter
Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
WILL THIS POISON MY EYES? - Portrait Painting w/ Smooth Gradients
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Commentary portraiture and the vacuous shell that currently holds the human condition and the relationship between internal spirit and external exhaustion.
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
ISiS ISiDE
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings.
His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Pigment, Canvas, Oil
Untitled 730 - 21st Cent, Contemporary, Figurative, Oil Painting, Portrait, Pop
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Françoise Nielly has explored the different facets of image all her life, through painting, photography, roughs, illustrations and virtual computer generated animated graphics. It is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pisan. 1995, oil on canvas, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Kaspars Zarins
Born in 1962
Professional training: Janis Rozentals Art School of Riga (1973 - 1980), Painting Department at the Latvian Academy of Arts (1980 - 1986) under the sup...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pink Vogue - Marilyn Monroe" Colorful Contemporary Mixed Media Portrait Collage
By Jim Hudek
Located in Houston, TX
Pink, orange, and blue toned pop art mixed media collage by Houston, Texas artist Jim Hudek. Digital print of Marilyn Monroe in black and white with Ben-Day dots against a background...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Rue de Paris
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"What Might Have Been", Red-Headed Woman and Parrot Oil Painting Portrait
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This figurative painting titled "What Might Have Been" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser made of oil paint on canvas. This piece measures 36.5"h x 36.5"w framed and is shipped in the pictured framed.
Katherine Fraser has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and of the University of Pennsylvania. As a student she received the Thomas Eakins Painting prize, the Cecelia Beaux Portrait prize, and the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Award, among others. Since graduating in 2002, she has received awards including the Lucy Glick...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady McNeck lll
By Y.m.Lo
Located in East Hampton, NY
Giraffe dressed up like royalty
Hand Painted
edition of 20
NY Street Artist Y.M. Lo oil painting.
contemporary Street in NYC, Hong Kong
Comes ROLLED in a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shero
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Shero' is a bright and brilliant painting with commentary on modern daily life. The artist uses her own image for this "Icon" painting that reflects feminism today (as well as hist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Marc Jacobs, blue, Portrait. Acrylic on canvas painting mounted on stretcher
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Marc Jacobs blue, Acrylic on canvas mounted on stretcher
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The worlds of fashion, society, and pop culture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Coming On
Located in Denver, CO
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 Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Romantic man - William Bakaïmo, 21st Century, Contemporary African Painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
2019
Signed
Unique work
The world of William Bakaïmo is a great dreamlike bestiary where humans are not humans, where animals...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, India Ink, Acrylic
Oil on Canvas Portrait -- Boy in a Brown Overcoat
By Tina Lincer
Located in Troy, NY
This oil on canvas portrait shows a boy wearing a brown colored overcoat and hat. The landscape that stretches behind the figure primarily features blue and yellow in a tranquil scen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The seaside lady -Timothy Archer, 21st Century painting, Figurative art
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint, pastel and charcoal on paper
Signed and dated by the artist lower left
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
Cellist - XXI century Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors, Music
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA
studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Human Form, Multi-faceted, Acrylic on paper, Violet, Blue, Red colors "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Arghya Priya Majumdar - Untitled - 11 x 15 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on imported paper
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : In his work he combines real and unreal huma...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Human Form, Multi Faceted, Acrylic Painting, Blue, Violet, Red colors "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Arghya Priya Majumdar - Untitled - 11 x 15 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on imported paper
Inclusive of shipment in roll form.
Style : In his work he combines real and unreal huma...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
EFFIGY EMERGENCE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on board. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be c...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
Justin (from Skype portraits series)
By Sandro Kopp
Located in New York, NY
Justin (from Skype portraits series)
9.5 x 12 inches
oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Homme allongé
Located in Paris, FR
France, 2013 Oil Paint- Lying man Homme allongé
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Picture of Time and Identity Contemporary Blue and Pink Faces Cut Faces
Located in Miami, FL
A large scale original canvas work by a well know Austrian painter is part of his 'cut faces' series. Painted in royal blues and pinks and covered with phrases and numbers, this con...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oh Our Dear Beatles, Kinetic - Mixed Media
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Oh Our Dear Beatles" is a unique kinetic mixed media artwork on panel by a world-renowned French contemporary artist, Patrick Rubinstein. He is famous for his diverse style represen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Souperman" Superman & Campbells Soup Blue Background Pop Art Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Superman juxtaposed with Campbells Tomato Soup. With impasto painting, thrown paint and quick brushwork we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
BrideDerWeyden
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is from a 2019 series of 4 images combining classic imagery from art history (such as Ven Der Weyden, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli, and Hollywood characters, such as Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman.
Robert Nelson has exhibited widely - at the Long Beach Museum of Art Annex, the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA), the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, BG Gallery...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Reason
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Benjamin is a British artist and designer, a true genius who works in an absolutely unique technique, whose works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Bather on Coastline
Located in New York, NY
Bather on Coastline, 2014
Acrylic on board
20 x 16 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Contemporary portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary portrait 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 portrait 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, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Nemo Jantzen, America Martin, Jack Graves III, and Timothy Archer. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric 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 portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available. Prices for portrait 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 $88 and tops out at $430,743, while the average work sells for $4,000.
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