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.
Fresh Paintings 445, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Niko Luoma
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fresh Paintings 445 by Niko Luoma (1970) Date: 2004 Chromogenic Print with Diasec, signed in pen on verso Edition of 1/3, 2 AP's Size: 39.25 x 49.25 in. (99.7 x 125.1 cm)
Digital
Fresh Paintings 9905, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Niko Luoma
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fresh Paintings 9905 by Niko Luoma (1970) Date: 2004 Chromogenic Print with Diasec, signed in pen on verso Edition of 1/3, 2 AP's Size: 39.25 x 49.25 in. (99.7 x 125.1 cm)
Digital
First Person IV, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Anne Collier
By Anne Collier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Collier produces sparse still lifes of found objects using a technique of re-photography that is informed as much by West Coast conceptual art practices as by product photograph...
Black and White, Photography
First Person II, Signed Conceptual Chromogenic Print by Anne Collier
By Anne Collier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anne Collier produces sparse still lifes of found objects using a technique of re-photography that is informed as much by West Coast conceptual art practices as by product photograph...
Black and White, Photography
$5,000
#2
Located in New York, NY
Photojournalist portrait of vanishing Surma tribe. Printed on canvas. Shot in July 2018, over a month in Ethiopia. "I wanted to photograph lost tribes because there are not m...
Canvas, Archival Pigment
$3,600
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Bichromate Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Igor Vishnyakov is a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968 in Moscow. Igor spent his childhood in Africa and Southeast Asia. After returning to Moscow in the mi...
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Tractor Replaces the Horse
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984) Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...
Metal, Enamel
$2,800
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blomberg 1, Laser cut archival pigment ink print, signed, numbered, framed Ideas of home and dislocation have always been compelling to me as the child of immigrant parents who arri...
Archival Pigment
$1,850
"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2.14" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in Gijó...
Digital Pigment
"All We Have Is Now" - Scott Froschauer Photograph Limited Edition 25
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for comm...
Archival Paper
Faces, Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print Asian American
By Emily Cheng
Located in Surfside, FL
This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. it is marked proof NFS and is not signed or numbered. Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed. Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA) , Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015), Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019). Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Nicolas Carone...
Photographic Paper, C Print
I've always preferred my own birthday, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
My co-worker was always jealous of my blonde hair, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
Studying piano is one of my favorite hobbies, 2012
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
I met my dearest friend Dottie when I was a nurse, 2014
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
My Funeral, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
I loved demonstrating aerials, 2013
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
When they lifted me on the piano, I had no choice but to oblidge, 2016
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
I wanted to meet a rich husband, so I modeled in auto shows, 2016
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
His first haircut, 2011
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Jennifer Greenburg challenges social norms and the nature of vernacular photographs in her series Revising History. Interjecting herself in mid-century images from the 1940’s – 60’s,...
Archival Pigment
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition ...
C Print
Source 8
By VIROCODE (Peter D'Auria and Andrea Mancuso)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original Inkjet prints, carbon and beeswax mounted to wood that was included in the artistic duo's exhibition at the world renowned Albright Knox Art Gallery. Virocode is compose...
Wood, Wax, Carbon Pencil, Inkjet
A Conceptually Alternative Cyanotype, "Emptiness is Form 5"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 14" diameter Conceptually Alternative Cyanotype executed on Hahnemuhle Sumi-E Paper by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its p...
Photographic Film
Hoyt Lake Buffalo New York
By Max Collins
Located in Buffalo, NY
A unique wheat pasted photograph onto found wood by American conceptual artist Max Collins (b.1988). This work was featured in a unique exhibition curated...
Found Objects, Photographic Paper
$4,800
"Raven Skull" Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio Pacific Northwest 1993
Located in Portland, OR
DIANNE KORNBERG (1945) RAVEN SKULL, Diptych from Comparative Anatomy Portfolio, 1993 A selenium toned gelatin silver print edition 7/15. Housed in a high quality hardwood frame with acid free and UV materials. Kornberg is a Professor Emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, she relocated her studio to an Island in the San Juan Archipelago in Washington State. Since that time she has been collaborating with two poets, making prints that are photo based but also incorporate drawing, painting, software artifacts and text. Kornberg earned a BFA from the University of Washington...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
A Conceptually Alternative Cyanotype, "Memory Trace"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 20x11.25 Conceptually Alternative Cyanotype executed on Hahnemuhle Sumi-E Paper by artist Annalise Neil. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purch...
Photographic Film
Terry O'Neill - Roger Moore as James Bond, Photography 1970, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
British actor Roger Moore poses with a gun as James Bond. Publicity shot from 1973, for his first Bond movie: Live and Let Die. It's the only time Bond used ...
Silver Gelatin
$3,815Sale Price|20% Off
Chef Portrait: Gary Rhodes / Large Photographic Colour Print/ Chef and Knife
By John Reardon
Located in London, GB
Gary Rhodes OBE (22 April 1960 – 26 November 2019)[1] was an English restaurateur and television chef, known for his love of English cuisine and ingredients and for his distinctive s...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Color
$7,000
Silver gelatin print from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, stamped on verso
Located in New York, NY
Untitled portrait from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print, artist print. This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic port...
Silver Gelatin
SEARCHING FOR A PORTAL - Twilight Living Chromogenic Print, Black, White
By Sarah Hobbs
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
This C-Print by Sarah Hobbs is part of a series included in her show "Twilight Living," at Channel to Channel. In this photograph, an electric box with several protruding wires is ce...
C Print
Petite Fleur
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Black and white photograph of a single rose just after the rain. Ajijic, MX. Petite Fleur Date: 2016 - Printed Later Size: 42” x 63” Edition of 7 Savannah Spirit is a visual artis...
Archival Pigment
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6 This new series titled Neurosis bring...
Archival Pigment, Paper
Experiencing Anxiety (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Experiencing Anxiety (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 2/6 This new series titled Neurosis brings t...
Archival Pigment, Paper
Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6 This new series titled Neurosis brings togeth...
Archival Pigment, Paper
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Psychiatric Observation (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP - Edition 1/6 This new series titled Neurosis bring...
Archival Pigment, Paper
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
V: Dogmatic thinking (Abstract Painting) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain...
Archival Pigment, Paper
III. Deceit of language
Located in London, GB
Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper. Unframed. This abstract work is part of the series titled Dichotomy of a Human Brain. It was created by combining fragments o...
Archival Pigment, Paper
"Untitled 4.20" Chess Photography 24' x 35' in Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4.20" Chess Photography 24' x 35' in Edition of 10 by García De Marina García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thr...
Digital Pigment
$5,500
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Film and Vintage Projector, 2018, Film, Found Objects
Located in Darien, CT
This installation imagines the Radium Girls as abstractd subjects. Repeating a motif of a circle, signifying the mouth, this art object conveys a modern view of the these workers, tied in with repetitive actions in abstracted patterns. Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instrument...
Film, Found Objects
$3,200
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
Plastic, Digital
$3,200
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
Plastic, Digital
$3,200
Jo Yarrington, Ghost Girls Window Transparencies, 2018, Plastic, Digital Print
Located in Darien, CT
This series of five transparencies are in an edition size of 3. They are designed to be installed directly onto interior window areas to allow light to pass thru them. These transpar...
Plastic, Digital
$5,500
Jo Yarrington, Ghost girls_Slide Carousel, 2018, Photographic Film, Found Object
Located in Darien, CT
Radioluminescence is the phenomenon by which light is produced in a material by bombardment with ionizing radiation and can be used as a low-level light source for night illumination of instruments or signage or other applications where light must be produced for long periods without external energy sources. Radioluminescent paint used to be used for clock hands and instrument dials...
Photographic Film, Found Objects
Jeff Becker, Privey Policy, 2016, Archival Pigment Print
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Slu...
Archival Pigment
Jeff Becker, Slurry Pentagon, 2016, Inkjet Print
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Inkjet
Peoples Privacy
By Jeff Becker
Located in Darien, CT
Using his inkjet printer as a paintbrush, Jeff Becker creates watercolor-like imagery without Photoshop or filters. He refers to this process of dynamic chemical processes as The Sl...
Archival Paper, Inkjet
$2,834Sale Price|20% Off
Twilight's 034, Danse Macabre - A skeletal Oak tree - Landscpae
Located in London, GB
A skeletal oak, starved of light by the surrounding fir trees still holds its twisted limbs up towards the light as if frozen in its death throes. "I want to bring a sense of unfamiliarity into the images; to present commonplace nature in a peculiar way. This is, in part, a reaction against our over sanitised and conditioned lives. The night forest is devoid of people. It is an undomesticated wilderness right on our doorstep." - Jasper Goodall...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Color
"Untitled 6.20" Still Life Photograph 24' x 35' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 6.20" Still Life Photograph 24' x 35' in Ed of 10 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in G...
Digital Pigment
"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photograph 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4.16" Still Life Photograph 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in G...
Digital Pigment
Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid
Located in Miami, FL
William Wegman's highly conceptual Dog - Cat interaction is depicted in this large-format Polaroid Polacolor print that features a double portrait - a Dog and a Cat - together but separate in their own defined space. Signed, titled, and dated to lower right ‘Church & Steeple William Wegman 93’. This work is unique. provenance: Wright Chicago, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the previous in 1993 by the original owner Thence by descent Best viewed with a top gallery light...
Polaroid
"Untitled 2.20" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 2.20" Still Life Photography 24' x 16' in Ed of 15 by García De Marina Signed and numbered by the artist Comes with COA issued by the artist García de Marina was born in ...
Digital Pigment
$4,768
Moon over a Mayo Landscape - Mysterious Moonlit Photograph, Framed (or unframed)
By Paul Kenny
Located in London, GB
A moon shrouded in shadows emits a mystical glow, illuminating an enigmatic landscape… A mysterious moonlit scene, evoking depth and tranquility amidst shadowy green hues…. An abstr...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
$3,815Sale Price|22% Off
Floating Feather in the Midnight Sky, Medium size Photograph, Mounted and Framed
By Paul Kenny
Located in London, GB
The artworks capture a feather balanced amidst a starry void, inviting contemplation and reflection. A feather down drifts softly, suspended in a mysterious, dream-like expanse of bl...
Photographic Paper, Color, Photogram, Archival Pigment
EXP_4873.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
Panel, Inkjet
EXP_8783.RAW
Located in Greifswald, DE
„According to some theories, the human brain encodes images through a process that takes place in several stages. At the beginning, the images are organized into two-dimensional sket...
Panel, Inkjet
Isabelle Carbonell "Kansas" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four
Located in Detroit, MI
"Kansas" is one of a set of four digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: The Land of OZ, The ...
Digital Pigment
$2,500
Isabelle Carbonell "The Yellow Brick Road" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four
Located in Detroit, MI
"The Yellow Brick Road" is 1 of a set of 4 digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: The Land o...
Digital Pigment
Isabelle Carbonell "The Land of Oz" Iconic Wizard of Oz Set of Four
Located in Detroit, MI
"The Land of Oz" is one of a set of four digital prints whose titles were inspired by the iconic film The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland. The other three are titled: Kansas, The ...
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Pregnant Woman), Signed Limited Edition Color Coupler Print
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Since the late 1970's Cindy Sherman has donned an array of personas, disguises and costumes to explore how woman are perceived, presented and judged in Western culture. In this ico...
C Print
Gonfleur
By Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle
Located in White Plains, NY
Chromogenic print in diptych format from the Minimiam series. Depicts workers inflating raisins, to make grapes. In celadon, yellow and blue. Facemounted in plexiglas. No need for ...
C Print