Contemporary 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.
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Style: Contemporary
"Honeymoon Bay, " Contemporary Art Mirror
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary piece is made with dichroic film on mirror and is framed in a modern white frame. The application of the film creates a changing colorful aesthetic so that the viewer sees different colors like pink, blue, purple, and orange as they change the angle at which they view it. Areas around the periphery that look metallic give the mixed-media piece an almost painterly aesthetic. This abstracted mirror invites interaction and adds a playful alternate view to any space. It can hang vertically or horizontally, and is ready to hang.
"I seek to find balance between the creative process and the present moment using color as a direct and indirect language," the artist says. "Color series paintings explore the dynamics between light, pigment, and the viewer. To achieve this, I work with mirrors as my canvas and a medium that allows for drastic shifts, effected by natural exposures, like light, the angle of a space, and the viewer themselves. Combining the reflective areas of a mirror with color...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Film, Mixed Media
Captive Audience, Oval Landscape, Child, Giraffe, Tree, Blue, Light Yellow
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful landscape scene is set in shades of blue with pale yellow and ivory in this oval encaustic (pigmented beeswax) painting with oil, pigments from Morocco and India, volcanic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
''Swimming 1'' Contemporary Oil Painting in Blue of a Girl Swimming
Located in Utrecht, NL
Christine van der Cingel (1966) paints mainly cityscapes, people and animals. In her portraits the emphasis is on movement. It is more about t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"PaperLandscape" Abstract Original Art, Minimal Painting made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
PaperLandscape
is a series of artworks inspired by landscape and nature,
nature and the passage change over time, we change nature and nature changes man
the connection between man ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Enamel
The Roots - Contemporary Woven and Painted Abstract Artwork
Located in Salzburg, AT
'The Roots', handwoven painting, linen yarn, organic cotton, jute, acrylic textile paint, 80 x 60 cm, 2025.
This work are a symbiosis of two disciplines of art, Painting and Weaving....
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Linen, Yarn, Acrylic
Theater By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St. Giorgio e il Drago Oil Painting on Canvas Saint Georges and Dragon In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
St. Giorgio e il Drago Oil Painting on Canvas Saint Georges and Dragon In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tus...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon
Descending Spirit - intimate, abstract, cubist, landscape, canvas
By Otto Rogers
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The diaphanous spirit of a bird rises into a brightening sky in this inspired composition by Otto Donald Rogers. Rogers paintings, rooted in a cubist-constructivist tradition, explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Don't Let Go
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has had solo exhibitions a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite, Oil
Wind in My Hair - Abstract Bird Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
"I Like You, You're Weird" - Mixed media figurative painting with text
Located in East Quogue, NY
Original mixed media painting by Adam Baranello.
Size 36 x 36 in. Offered unframed.
Mixed media, acrylic, spray paint on canvas.
Multidisciplinary artist Adam Baranello creates mus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Borders Not Boundaries - 21st Century, Contemporary, Impressionism, Floral Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In the course of fulfilling aspired dreams, life throws different challenges at you. These challenges are borders, not boundaries which are meant to be crossed to get to a desired en...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Memories of Ecstasy
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
Memories of Ecstasy is an oil on canvas painting, 24.75 x 18.5" canvas size, signed on the front ‘KOSTABI 2022’ lower right, and signed, titled and dated verso. Framed in a contempor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Majestic Mia - Original Animal Painting - Colorful Pop Art Happy Cow Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swiss artist Fredi Gertsch creates lively colorful pop-folk art paintings with one inexhaustible element: the Emmentaler cow. Humor and optimism are essential traits of the artist: "...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Kitovras, 120x120cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Kitovras, 120x120cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative/Portrait_Earth Tones_Woman on Lawn Blanket_America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman on Lawn Blanket"
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 80 in. 46.75 x 81.75 in Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Millions", Contemporary, Skull, Plastic Bag, Black, Oil Painting, 2024
By Dalvin Byron
Located in Natick, MA
Dalvin Byron’s “Millions” is a 24 x 36 x 1.5 inch oil painting on canvas. It presents a stark and haunting image: a human skull encased in a sheer plastic bag, suspended in a black v...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Street, 100x100cm, acrylic on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Street, 100x100cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Solitudes by Anne-Louise Ewen
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Two Solitudes," (2023) by artist Anne-Louise Ewen is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 14" x 11" x 2.25". The painting features an interior space rendered in black, gray and whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Studio per la Coperta Study Blanket Oil Painting on Canvas Classic In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Studio per la Coperta Study Blanket Oil Painting on Canvas Classic In Stock
Giovanni Tommasi Ferroni (1967, Rome) descended from an artistic Tuscan family. His grandfather, father, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Museum Visit II- 21st Century Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Martin Koole
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Martin Koole
Museum visit II
120 x 120 cm
Acryl on canvas
Martin Koole's paintings are distinguished from the work of other painters by his very headstrong way of applying the pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Etna rising - Dramatic abstract landscape painting
Located in Broomfield, CO
This abstract landscape painting is dedicating to the ever present power of Etna, the live volcano on the island of Sicily. Etna is a constant reminder of what lays beneath. Its lava...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field Painting November 5 - Contemporary Landscape Autumn Tree Fall Leaves, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on panel, a peaceful outdoor scene in late autumn, with a tree with dark reddish brown leaves with hints of golden orange above a delicately pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Maeve D'Arcy "Sudden Death Overtime September" 2024 acrylic on canvas
By Maeve D'Arcy
Located in New York, NY
Maeve D'Arcy
Sudden Death Overtime September, 2024
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in.
(dar136)
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Best Target Shot - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Horse Rider
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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.
About Artist
Bor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Jute, Mixed Media, Oil
Palm Spring Patterns, Vivid Tones, Abstract River Flow in Pink and Green, Yellow
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Palm Spring Patterns" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Red Dirt & Sea - 21st Century, Water, Nude, Landscape, Figurative
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Red Dirt & Sea, 2022
acrylic on cardboard
119 H x 79 W cm
46 27/32 H x 31 7/64 W cm
The series of painted cardboards by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone) Hakim Bey
By Amanda Marie
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This original acrylic and aerosol on watercolour paper, deckled edges work on paper by Amanda Marie (aka Mando) measures 53.125”h x 41.25”w approx. unframed. This piece is pencil sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Purple Lincoln
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Purple Lincoln
Series: Abraham Lincoln
Date: 2023
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 23" x 19"
Signature: Signe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow Show
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Snow Show
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Editio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
No Expectations, Contemporary Geometric Black and Tan Abstract Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting combines abstract mark-making, geometric shapes, collaged canvas, and intricate line work. The title "No Expectations" reflects its intuitive, process-driven creation. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Mass Study III", Layered paper and drawing collage, architectural, dimensional
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This layered paper collage and drawing artwork titled "Mass Study III" is an original artwork by Seth Clark made of paper, charcoal, pastel, graphite, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Graphite
Animal Painting 019/1765
By Les Thomas
Located in Bozeman, MT
Les Thomas' animal paintings tend to play with the relationship between culture and nature. The special encaustic wax finish that he applies, he explains, "may very well pertain to m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Purple Cat on Vermilion By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
The large Purple cat lounges and ponders. A colorful background of vermillion and yellow flowers,makes for a very strong statement to enliven a room.
Marc Zimmerman creates playfu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rhododendrons
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Rhododendrons' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size.
Internationally exhibited and celebrated worldwide, Bukovnik’s iconic works express a spiritual exultation - a joie de vivre - a vivid celebration of beauty. The painting captures the season of nature’s rebirth when the world awakes from its winter repose — Forever Spring...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Tess Michalik "Francis B" 2024 Oil on panel
Located in New York, NY
Tess Michalik
Francis B, 2024
Oil on panel
10 x 8 in.
(mic012)
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Morning Bath, Painting, Oil on MDF Panel
By David Sipko
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a painting of a Great Egret taking a morning walk into the pond looking for some food. It is an 8 x 8 oil on panel painting and it framed, varnished and ready to hang. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemporary Blue and Pink Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Cherry Blossoms, Framed
By a.muse
Located in New york, NY
In this semi-abstract painting by a.muse cherry blossom branches stand out against a bright blue sky in New York while rooting themselves in the earth. Bright color, pinks, reds, and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Thread, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Whisper in the Dark - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Adebayo Taiwo, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Aspens at Dawn, Jeffrey Vaughn, 2025, Photorealistic Oil Painting, Framed
Located in St. Louis, MO
Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1978 from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and his Master of Fine Arts in 1983 from the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Across the Universe, Original Painting
By Nava Lundy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young woman closes her eyes in serene reflection, holding a delicate pink flower against her face. The background, filled with flowing handwritten lyrics from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary portrait "The Secret of the Kimono and Cats"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This artwork captures a serene woman in a beige kimono, her elegant obi and red hairpiece adding subtle grace. Flanked by two sleek black cats with piercing yellow eyes, seated on a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"June Bloom, " Oil painting
By Brad Davis
Located in Denver, CO
Brad Davis' (US based) "June Bloom" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pink and fuchsia flower blooming in the darkness.
A resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Davis' paintings aim to uncover and uplift the discarded and overlooked within his urban surroundings. The city's rich history and character manifest themselves in the architecture and inhabitants of his daily life, thus providing the platform for his work. The quiet power in layers of decay gives insight into the city's past...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Route 66 - Mixed Media on Canvas with Frame, Contemporary Narrative Artwork
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"Route 66" (2018) is a mixed media piece on canvas by Inés Silvalde, measuring 22.4 x 32.3 x 5 cm, and presented in a wooden frame. This work, part of the Influencers de Taberna seri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Mountains 22 January 12:31 - Modern Minimalistic Expressive Landscape Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Model On Black: Mixed media painting on paper by Angela Lyle
By Angela Lyle
Located in Brecon, Powys
This mixed media on paper is a subtle study of the model, soft and flowing.
Angela was born in 1946 and studied art at Kingston Art College, London. Her early career was predominan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"My Melrose Heart" Purple Pop Oil Painting on Wood with White Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Glass
"Let's Play Ball" Oil Painting
By Calvin Lai
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "Let's Play Ball" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of a plastic toy bear in situ with an apple and a wooden mannequin, all cast...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
High Tide at Holy Island by Malcom Ludvigsen
Located in Deddington, GB
original
oil on canvas
Image size: H:104 cm x W:104 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:104 cm x W:104 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an ind...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace, interiors, desert landscape, earth tones
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Georgia O'Keeffe's Studio & Fireplace"
2020
Work on paper by Japanese artist Miki Matsuyama, from her iconic artist studio study series featuring an interiors and desert landscape. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Texture of Identity (Beauty Within Us)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The Beauty Within Us" is a compelling narrative series of paintings that celebrates the unique and diverse beauty of Black hair, serving as a powerful symbol of identity, heritage, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Flowing Sound #10 by Maho Maeda - Abstract painting, blue flowers, wood, canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Flowing Sound #10 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Maho Maeda. This painting is made with acrylic, coloured pencil and ink on cotton canvas and carved wood, dimensions are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil
Lust
Located in New York, NY
Ink on paper, Acrylic and / or watercolor, signed in the front, framed in a aluminum silver frame, glass.
Philip Wittmann work is based on signs. Sign...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper
''Basket with Leeks'' Contemporary Dutch Still Life Painting with Leeks
Located in Utrecht, NL
Dutch artist Nico Heilijgers (1964) works in the tradition of the great seventeenth-century still life painters. In his work we see conventional object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Powder Puff - Dog Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil
Yellow Buckle with Pinks - large, floral, abstracted still life, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A glorious riot of colour….pink—from pale to a rosy red play against orange, green, white and a pop of bright yellow in this oil painting by Jennifer Hornyak. Known for her abstract ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Japanese Contemporary Art by Teppei Ikehila - Tokyo Olympic Poster II
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fallow Field (Impressionist Abstracted Red Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas)
Located in Hudson, NY
Horizontal, monochromatic impressionist style blood orange and red abstract landscape oil painting on canvas
"Fallow Field" painted by Richard Britell in 2020
oil on canvas
20 x 48 x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary Paintings>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, purple, red, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Steven Miller, Howard Tangye, and Irena Orlov. 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 0.75 inches across are also available.
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