Contemporary Abstract Photography
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
Wave I - large format abstract liquidscape in azur and lapis blue color palette
Located in San Francisco, CA
Wave I by Christian Stoll
a mesmerizing photographic rendering of blue acquatic surface
58 x 58 inches (147 x 147cm)
edition of 7
signed
48 x 48 inches (122 x 122cm)
edition of 7
s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
"Saint Jean de Luz" by Didier Fournet, 51 x 51 in, 2023
Located in Paris, France
Didier Fournet is a contemporary "painter" thanks to photography: he chose pixels instead of brushes and reveals the beauty of the world by turning landscapes into vibrations.
Self-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print, Other Medium
Recordings, Triptych. Color abstract photographs
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Recordings (Triptych) by Javier Rey
Color Archival pigment print
Overall size: 80 cm H x 159 cm W.
Individual size: 80 cm H x 53 cm W.
Edition of 5 + 1AP
Unframed
Recordings is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Pineapple VII
Located in New York, NY
Pineapple VII
2022
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique)
22 x 14...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photogram
"The Veil" Photography 40" x 50" inch Edition 2/12 by Rob Woodcox
By Rob Woodcox
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Veil" Photography 40" x 50" inch Edition 2/12 by Rob Woodcox
Hahnemuhle Torchon Matte FineArt Paper (archival)
Ships in a tube
2019
ABOUT Rob Woodcox
Rob Woodcox is a fine art and fashion photographer currently living between Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York City. Rob's surrealistic contemporary style has developed into a dedication for advocacy and making strained voices heard through visual storytelling. Rob has produced projects raising consciousness and conversation around the US foster system and adoption, queer identity, body neutrality, racial diversity and environmental justice. Within any given concept lies not only a captivating visual, but a deep and powerful narrative that inspires the viewer to appreciate and contemplate. Rob creates from a unique perspective, finding hope in the human connection and the will to overcome existing constructs within our complex societies. In 2020 Rob produced and released his first photographic art book “Bodies Of Light”. Rob continues to rise in the global art scene.
Selected Exhibitions:
2021 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Liquidity Wine Gallery, Okanagan Falls, BC
Canada;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil,
Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), 500px Gallery, Toronto, ON Canada;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Warehouse, Miami, FL USA;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Warehouse, Detroit, MI USA;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Private Residence, New York, NY USA
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Warehouse, Portland, OR USA;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Private Residence, Los Angeles, CA USA;
2020 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), Jardín Juarez, México City, México;
2019 Bodies Of Light (Solo Exhibition), The National Museum of Serbia, Belgrade,
Serbia;
2019 ClearChannel France, 800 Screen Public Gallery Display, Paris, France;
2019 Paris Photo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
ATARI Imperatore - conceptual photograph of iconic video game in epic nature
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
ATARI Imperatore (2019) by Frank Schott
from a series of photographic observances capturing conceptual signs in nature
48 x 74 inches / 122cm x 188c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Columbine: The Mystery of Five Doves, Layered Images of Flowers in Violet Blue
Located in Kent, CT
This botanical photograph features flowers, butterflies, and doves in an abstracted composition. Shades of violet and blue stand out brightly against the darkened background, and blurred images of butterflies suggest movement in contrast to the still flowers.
Edition 2 of 15. Printed on archival Simply Elegant Gold Fiber Paper 310gsm, mounted on Sintra with non-glare plexiglas.
Lisa A. Frank’s large-scale photographs are kaleidoscopic multilayered images of the natural world. The work’s complex patterns are composed from the artist’s deep archive of her own photographs; the images are digitally collaged and arranged in patterns that take cues from historic wallpaper designs. Densely ornamental, the work draws upon the artist's background as a textile designer as well as the interior decoration documents of Britain’s Aesthetic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
"In the Deep" Lavender Large Scale Abstract Color Photograph, Waterscape Wave
Located in New York, NY
Large Scale Limited edition color photograph, 40"x60" depicting an abstract waterscape with a lavender sky. This contemporary landscape photograph has has a painterly feel; the artist has captured a rising cusp of a wave with blue and cool white, against a violet and pink sky. The photographer Danny...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Deterioration Series 130
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 130
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
signed and numbered edition of 5 on the verso
This image is part of Robert Fa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Deterioration Series 055
Located in New York, NY
Robert Farber
Deterioration Series 055
1979-2013 (printed later)
Archival pigment print
60 x 40 inches
edition of 5
This image is part of Robert Farber’s Deterioration Series which...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
30x40" Abstract photography - Abstract Flowers
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is part of a series of abstract art photography, capturing nature, flora, fauna in an abstract, brightly styled, exuberance.
Limited editi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Train
By Poby
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Poby
Title: Train
Year: 2017/2018
Dimensions: 48"x60"
Medium: C print, gallery quality, archival
Framed behind acrylic glass with gallery mount
Edition of 5
Signed by the A...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Grand Canyon
By Poby
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Poby
Title: Grand Canyon
Year: 2017/2018
Dimensions: 48"x60"
Medium: C print, gallery quality, archival
Framed behind acrylic glass with gallery ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
ATARI Imperatore 2020 Photograph of Epic Landscape in Italy Abruzzo
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
ATARI Imperatore by Frank Schott
from a series of photographic observances capturing urban textures and color palettes
30 x 46.25 inches / 76cm x 118cm
edition of 25
signed
48 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
MVSEVM IX (Sir John Soane staircase) – Ola Kolehmainen, Contemporaty Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Ola KOLEHMAINEN (*1964, Finland)
MVSEVM IX (Sir John Soane staircase), 2020
Archival Ink-Jet matt prints Dibond mount in Artist Frames
Overall dimensions 130 x 196 cm (51 1/8 x 77 1/...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Ink
Uncertainty
Located in New York, NY
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso
Wet photogram with ferric ammonium citrate, potassium ferricyanide, and suspended watercolor pigment (Unique)
This work is offered by Cla...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photogram
Farewell - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Erik at Fifteen - 2019 -
20x25cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Photograph printed in Canson Barita Fiber Rag 340gr,
based on a reclaimed Fuji Instant Film Negative (not m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid
Recordings (Olvidado). Abstract color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Recordings (Olvidado) by Javier Rey
Color Archival pigment print
Image size: 80 cm H x 53 cm W.
Edition of 5 + 1AP
Unframed
Recordings is a collection series of experiences with d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Mer Morte, Israel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
"GHOST AT WORK", photograph, tableau, portrait, assemblage, abstract, costume
By Sophia Rauch
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"GHOST AT WORK", 2018, is a color photograph by Sophia Rauch, one in a series of "Ghost" pictures. It's an inkjet print on Hahnemeule Photo Rag Paper, and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Paper
"UNTITLED (Cut Lavender)", digital scan, photo paper, sculpture, assemblage
By Sophia Rauch
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"UNTITLED (Cut Lavender)", 2018, is a color photograph by Sophia Rauch, one of a series originating as digital scans with the artist manipulating material...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Digital
Metamorphosis
Located in New York City, NY
Fernanda Naman
Metamorphosis (Triptych)
94 x 55 inches (each)
94 x 165 (total)
Edition of 9
Plexiglas Mounting
Also available in:
50 x 30 inches (each)
50 x 90 inches (total)
Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
ORGANIC LANDSCAPES 4 by Alexandre Manuel (Aerial Photography)
Located in New York City, NY
Series: ORGANIC LANDSCAPE AERIAL
All available sizes and editions:
40" x 30" editions of 10
60" x 45" editions of 5
72" x 54" editions of 3
Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mare #332
Located in New York City, NY
Alessandro Puccinelli
Mare #332, 2018
Seascape - From the Mare series - Framed
20 x 20 inches
Edition of 15
32 x 32 inches
Edition of 10
40 x 40 inches
Edition of 5
Archival Pig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
ORGANIC LANDSCAPES 6 by Alexandre Manuel (Aerial Photography)
Located in New York City, NY
Series: ORGANIC LANDSCAPE AERIAL
All available sizes and editions:
40" x 30" editions of 10
60" x 45" editions of 5
72" x 54" editions of 3
Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Guest [C.B.], 7.47 pm, 12th August
Located in New York, NY
Unique dye destruction print
Signed, titled, and dated, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Price includes framing.
Christopher Bucklow is a Britis...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Dye, Color
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Ocean Pacifique, NZ
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Manghae, Purple Mist (Photograph, Print, Sunset, Peaceful Waters, South Korea)
Located in Brighton, GB
Edition of 3 + 1 Artist’s Proof. Ultrachrome print.
Young-Jin Choi, was born in 1965 in the southern coastal area of Jeollanam-do province. He began taking photographs in high schoo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ideas in Things (Antarctic Penisula)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
In Jessica Houston’s Afterward, Silence (Franklin’s Crewmen’s Grave, Beechey Island) a single pale gravestone stands on an otherwise desolate ashen shore – a reli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Fjord, NZ
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Geister X / ghost ship - contemporary floating photograph
By Nina Dietzel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Geister or 'Ghost Ship' series from Nina Dietzel. Stunning on own, or paired with other images from the series. Surface mounted to polished plexiglass so that the photograph appears ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Aberlour 107, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Aberlour 107, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & conc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
ORGANIC LANDSCAPES 4 by Alexandre Manuel (Aerial Photography)
Located in New York City, NY
Series: ORGANIC LANDSCAPE AERIAL
All available sizes and editions:
40" x 30" editions of 10
60" x 45" editions of 5
72" x 54" editions of 3
Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Pigment
Mandala #413
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Mandala #4010
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Mandala #4005
Located in New York, NY
Type-C print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
20 x 20 inches
(Edition of 10)
30 x 30 inches
(Edition of 5)
40 x 40 inches
(Edition of 5)
This artwork is offered by Clam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Horizon #4
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
"Balance" Edition of 5
Located in New York, NY
"Balance" 30"x45" photograph - edition 1/5 (unframed)
Please inquire about additional editions and availability This iconic photograph is from the artist's series: "Brace For Impa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Horizon #2
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Horizon #6
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Horizon #9
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Digital
Glenlivet 137, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
By Ernie Button
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Glenlivet 137, limited edition color photograph, signed and numbered.
For much of my adult life, photography has provided me a forum to communicate my past & present, my humor & con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"LB07" (FRAMED) Photography 60" x 40" inch Edition of 4 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
LB07 Photography 60" x 40" inch Edition of 4 by Giuliano Bekor
Print size 40x60 Inches
Artwork finished size 42x62 Inches
Limited edition 1 of 4
Artist proof 2
Medium:
This artwo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Purple Experiment
Located in New York, NY
Purple Experiment, 2016-2017
Archival pigment print on Aluminum
24 x 36 inches
Edition of 5
The synesthesia phenomenon is traditionally said to be the confusion of senses; like hea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Guess It Was Me
Located in New York, NY
Born in Liverpool, England, Julian Lennon began his artistic trajectory at a young age with an inherent talent for playing musical instruments. Those talents would soon broaden into ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Giclée, Archival Pigment
"Koi and Sakura Petals, Kyoto, Japan" Contemporary Framed Photograph on Aluminum
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Koi and Sakura Petals, Kyoto, Japan," is a framed photograph on aluminum by David Burdeny, depicting a pink koi fish and Japanese cherry blossom petals floating in a shallow garden ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Metal
Tennis, Jungle Series
Located in Miami, FL
Limited and signed edition number 1 of 3.
Reine Paradis constructs narrative photographs staging herself as the central figure in a surreal landscape. Paradis is dressed in orange in her images and is shown interacting in color filled landscapes.
Shot in many locations throughout America, the photo series "Jungle" takes us on an introspective journey across a symbolic and chromatic world, projected above the limit of reality and imagination.
All the scenes are imagined and conceptualized before shooting in real locations. Once the scene is visualized in it’s entirety, Paradis makes sketches and paints the scene to use as a blue print when photographing the final scene. All the costumes, accessories and origamis are meticulously designed and prepared according to the initial vision of the scene.
Each scene is an adventure and a story in and of itself.
Reine Paradis (b. 1989 in Southern France...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Plexiglass
Contemporary abstract photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract photography 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 abstract photography 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 Alessandro Puccinelli, Peter Mendelson, Stefanie Schneider, and Jessica Houston. Frequently made by artists working with Pigment Print, and Archival Pigment Print 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 abstract photography, so small editions measuring 2 inches across are also available.