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In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Process (1)
Process (1)

Process (1)

By Chulkova Elena

Located in Zofingen, AG

This is the first picture from the "Process" series. In this art, I artistically describe how the process of creating an image takes place, from idea to embodiment

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

Errantes Serie
Errantes Serie

Errantes Serie

By Israel Luis González Sosa

Located in Miami, FL

Discover beauty and hope in every stroke of this stunning piece by the talented Cuban painter Israel González Sosa. From the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Clara -Cuba, Is...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Xólotl en la caverna
Xólotl en la caverna

Xólotl en la caverna

By Erik Perez

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Living Large - Original Canvas - Signed

Living Large - Original Canvas - Signed

By Nelson De La Nuez

Located in New York, NY

Homages to Mr. Monopoly. Conceptual. Vintage magazines in the background to create the narrative. One of a kind. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ is one of the most sough...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor, Newsprint

L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)
L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)

L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting)

By Peter Soriano

Located in London, GB

L.I.C. (Blue) (Abstract painting) Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. L.I.C refers to Long Island City where Soriano currently has his studio. This drawing focuses of objects and elements within it, in particular the remnants of old closets...

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2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil

Bob Seng, Exit 350, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

Bob Seng, Exit 350, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

By Bob Seng

Located in Darien, CT

Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Plastic

Bob Seng, Exit 326, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

Bob Seng, Exit 326, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

By Bob Seng

Located in Darien, CT

Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...

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Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Plastic

Bob Seng, Exit 323, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

Bob Seng, Exit 323, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

By Bob Seng

Located in Darien, CT

Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Plastic

Bob Seng, Exit 442, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

Bob Seng, Exit 442, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

By Bob Seng

Located in Darien, CT

Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Plastic

Bob Seng, Exit 397, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

Bob Seng, Exit 397, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"

By Bob Seng

Located in Darien, CT

Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Plastic

Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite

Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite

By Ellen Hackl Fagan

Located in Darien, CT

Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound. This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting. Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Virtual Reality  30 X 25
Virtual Reality  30 X 25

Virtual Reality 30 X 25

By Heriberto Mora

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Each of Heriberto Mora's paintings has a story for the viewer to imagine. Heriberto Mora was born in Havana, Cuba. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Cogli l'attimo", oil on wood, 24x24cm
"Cogli l'attimo", oil on wood, 24x24cm

"Cogli l'attimo", oil on wood, 24x24cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

In this work, Corrado Ferrante weaves together memory, time, and sound within an intimate, layered composition. The musical score, partially veiled by material and chromatic interven...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board

"Il dopo? è nell'ombra?", oil on wood, 19x23cm
"Il dopo? è nell'ombra?", oil on wood, 19x23cm

"Il dopo? è nell'ombra?", oil on wood, 19x23cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

This work by Corrado Ferrante exemplifies the artist’s distinctive material language and his ability to transform fragments into powerful visual narratives. Through layered textures,...

Category

1980s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board

Beatles on Times Square
Beatles on Times Square

Beatles on Times Square

By Anthony D'Avino

Located in New York, NY

Homage to Beatles Abbey Road in Times Square. Oil on canvas. Feels like you are in the heart of NYC. Took over 300 hours to paint. About The Artist: D’Avino cultivated his ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fiber painting: 'Arras no. 4: Life'

Fiber painting: 'Arras no. 4: Life'

By Gin Stone

Located in New York, NY

Hand-dyed ghost gear netting*, muslin, adhesive, foam, paint, pins, reclaimed copper flashing Recovered Ghost Gear Data: Retrieval Coordinates: 42° 10ʹN 69°52ʹW Retrieval Vessel: F/...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Textile

Human Figure:  Vince Carter Model

Human Figure: Vince Carter Model

By Jack Florczyk

Located in New York, NY

Kobe Bryant portrait in abstract background. About the Artist: Jack Florczyk, known professionally as Jack Flo, is an American contemporary fine artist. Working with acrylic pai...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic

CMMM conceptual  Minimialist painting
CMMM conceptual  Minimialist painting

CMMM conceptual Minimialist painting

By Diti Almog

Located in Surfside, FL

Diti Almog (Israeli, b. 1960) CMMM, 1999; Acrylic on aircraft plywood; Signed, dated and titled; 12'' x 14''; Provenance: Baldwin Gallery, Colorado BIOGRAPHY Born Haifa, Israel ...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Glory

Glory

By Niki Singleton

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Glory, 2015 12” X 9" Oil on paper Framed A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to create works that...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

Hide

Hide

By Niki Singleton

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Hide, 2015 12” X 9” Oil on found wine box $1400 unframed A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Niki Singleton draws on both popular culture and mythology in order to cr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art
Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art

Kerrera #2 by Jon Rowland, Landscape painting, abstract painting, original art

Located in Deddington, GB

Kerrera # 2 by Jon Rowland 2018 original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on board Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:1.5cm ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall
Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall

Love Letters to Cornwall I by Mary Scott, Landscape, Love, Cornwall

By Mary Scott

Located in Deddington, GB

Love Letters to Cornwall (I) by Mary Scott [2021] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic and oil on wood panel Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Wor...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil, Acrylic

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

A walk in the village Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Tea time with buttery cookies
Tea time with buttery cookies

Tea time with buttery cookies

By paola vignola

Located in Barcelona, CT

This artwork features a vibrant diptych contrasting two panels. The left panel showcases two stylized roosters in orange and cream, set against a vivid pink backdrop. Their swirling,...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Symphony of Color
Symphony of Color

Symphony of Color

By paola vignola

Located in Barcelona, CT

This striking abstract artwork features bold vertical streaks of color, commanding attention with its textural richness and energetic composition. Dominating the canvas are layered b...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood

Monocromo rojo quemado
Monocromo rojo quemado

Monocromo rojo quemado

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Expectations" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
"Expectations" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

"Expectations" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation dynamic approach in orde...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm
A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

A walk in the village. Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

A walk in the village Oil on cardboard, 45x45 cm Victor Karnauh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm

Still life. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm

By Victor Karnauh

Located in Riga, LV

Still life Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm Victor Karnaukh (1950, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 2012, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – a painter, a monument designer, graduate of...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled

Untitled

By Juan Casellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cosmic Gal -  Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman
Cosmic Gal -  Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman

Cosmic Gal - Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zimmerman

Located in Carmel, CA

The Goddess creates from within her own creative imagination .Universes appear as her mudra engenders planets and stars. Cosmic Gal - Figurative Painting- Spacescape Art By Marc Zi...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Ephemeral" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm
"Ephemeral" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

"Ephemeral" by Corrado Ferrante, oil on wood, 24x24cm

By Corrado Ferrante

Located in Milano, MI

In the compositions, the gaze is attracted by an interplay of harmonious balances between full and empty spaces, which compel the regarding to an observation dynamic approach in orde...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Board

Memories VI
Memories VI

Memories VI

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: Memories VI Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 48.5 inches

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1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

It Happened II
It Happened II

It Happened II

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: It Happened II Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame S...

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1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Memories VII
Memories VII

Memories VII

By Liana Vassalou

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Liana Vassalou, Greek (1948 - ) Title: Memories VII Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 56 in. x 48 in. (142.24 cm x 121.92 cm) Frame Size: 56.5 x 48.5 inches

Category

1970s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled

Untitled

By Juan Casellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

Translucent

Translucent

Located in New York, NY

Mysterious woman. Oil on canvas. Fab wallpaper background. About the artist: “There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern feeling of reflection, observation and cultural critique. Somewhere between the Cohen Brothers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled

Untitled

By Juan Casellas

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Oil

NY Symphony

NY Symphony

By Anthony D'Avino

Located in New York, NY

Homage to Times Square. Oil on canvas. Feels like you are in the heart of NYC. Took over 300 hours to paint. Not framed. Sides painted black. Signed on the back. About Th...

Category

2010s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Turkish Medal

Turkish Medal

By Michael Beam

Located in Buffalo, NY

Beam recognizes that a successful work of art “must develop its own personality…It must empower, engage or provoke the public’s attention.” One exhibition in particular, titled Owavino(1997-1998) [meaning last minute] held in Illinois—perhaps the pinnacle of media mastery—garnered Beam numerous reviews, attacks and responses, even after the exhibiton had closed, for his work Turkish Medal (1996-1997-2013). The painting combines a comparatively altered version of one of Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator Bill Mauldin...

Category

1990s Conceptual Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Latex, Latex, Masonite, Wood

Conceptual paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual 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 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, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Peter Soriano, Penelope Ellis, Eduardo Costa, and Mattia Novello. 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 Conceptual paintings, so small editions measuring 6.75 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $333 and tops out at $115,000, while the average work sells for $3,713.