Contemporary 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.
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Style: Contemporary
Figure study in black and white II
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Figure study in black and white II' 2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist invento...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Otherside (Bombay Beach) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Otherside (Bombay Beach) - 2023
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2023-08.
Not mounted.
Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde is a self-taught freelance photographer, based in Brussels. Early on in her career, she discovered a fascination with art nude photography and since then the human body in its purest form has played a major role throughout her work.
In 2016, after becoming increasingly frustrated with digital perfection, an impulse buy of The Impossible Project’s I-1 camera changed her life. Never having heard of TIP before, she describes making that first Polaroid image as an instant love affair. Within weeks she had acquired several old Polaroid cameras...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
DITA VON TEESE, THE WHIP by Markus Klinko
Located in Austin, TX
Museum quality fine art print of Dita Von Teese by photographer Markus Klinko in 2013 in Los Angeles.
This print is available in the following sizes, signed and numbered by Markus K...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
$3,520 Sale Price
20% Off
"Deep Dive"- Colorful Nude in Water Photo
By John Mazlish
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Underwater nude shot from above a small cenote in Tulum, Mexico. Other size prints, framing options and print methods (such as fine art paper or face mounted plexiglass) available up...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Metal
Who I am - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, 21st Century, Joshua Tree
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Who I am
2019, 20x20 cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2019 - 749...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Soraya (The Princess and her Lover) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Soraya (The Princess and her Lover) - 2007
20x20cm.
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Titter, Scantily Clad Woman Viewing Titter Magazine, 1950 Vintage Photograph
By Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
“Art Shay’s photography shakes you up, sets you down gently, pats you on the head and then kicks you in the ass.” Roger Ebert “[Shay’s work] ranks with some of the greats of the 20...
Category
1950s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Turpentine - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Turpentine - 2021
25x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1081.
Not mounted...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Swan-Like Embrace (Paris) by Nan Goldin
By Nan Goldin
Located in London, GB
By Nan Goldin
Swan-Like Embrace, Paris (2001), printed later, 2021
C-Print on paper
8 x 5 1/8 inches
Signed verso (please see image 3)
From the 2021 timed release, published by Pain.
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Sophie- Signed limited edition contemporary print, Black white photo, Nude, Model
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 10
This image was captured on film.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then prin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
"Consensual Gate" Nude Photography 36 x 24 in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Consensual Gate" Nude Photography 36 x 24 in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Archival Giclee Print
Not framed. Ships in a tube
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE:
Edition of 15: 24 x 16 in
Edition o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Entre dos Iconos. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color
Bride - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print 22x18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This ethereal monochromatic underwater nude photograph captures a young woman wrapped in flowing translucent fabric. The sepia-toned composition emphasizes texture and movement, wher...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Telephone V, Ballantines Movie Colony, Palm Springs - Interior Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Telephone V' part of Richard Heeps 'Dream in Colour' Series.
This cool Palm Springs interior photography combines a softened monochrome palette and a mid-century modern nostalgic v...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Massimo Listri, Palazzo Borromeo II, Isola Bella
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Borromeo II, Isola Bella, 2018
C print
120 x 150 cm
edition 3 of 5
Signed and numbered on the verso label
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Harry's Corner, Wildwood, New Jersey - American Color Street Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Harry's Corner, on the Wildwood Boardwalk. Taken in April 2013, this picture was first executed in Richard's darkroom in October 2020, he prints it full frame showing the AGFA Ultra ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
If you ever - Polaroid, Women, Portrait
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
If you ever - 2020
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-857.
N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Supremes in the Snow
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white capture of Diana Ross, The Supremes, in the snow, circa 1965.
The Supremes were an American girl group and a premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
"La tête" Nude Art Print 28" x 36" inch Edition 6/25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"La tête" Nude Art Print 28" x 36" inch Edition 6/25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Year photo was taken: 2014
Art Print
Limited Edition of 25
Picture size:
Height: 28" inch
Width: 36" in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white promo photo of Marilyn Monroe posed for her role in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", circa 1953.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault ar...
Category
1950s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunset (Till Death do us Part) - 2005
20x24cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #958...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Because- Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Because - 2021
40X50cm,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2022-2009.
Not mounted.
Kirsten Thys van den Audenae...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Disney Concert Hall III, Photography, Limited Edition, Architecture, Los Angeles
Located in München, BY
Disney Concert Hall III
Edition of 25
signed and numbered by the artist
The Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, USA.
JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lunar Eclipse
By Kate Breakey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Kate Breakey's artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hot Tub (50x50cm) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Women, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Hot Tub' (Heavenly Falls) - 2016
50x50cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and signature label,
artist inventory number: 19715.08
Not mounted.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Nizza - large format photograph of summer beach scene in South of France
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
observation of a Mediterranean beach scene in Nice, France, on a hazy summer day
Nizza by Frank Schott
48 x 75.5 inches (122 x 192cm)
signed edition of 7
44 x 69 inches (122 x 17...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Ink
Elizabeth Taylor in Leopard Print Coat
Located in Austin, TX
Elizabeth Taylor standing candid in leopard pringt, leaning on doorway and her dog beside her.
This listing is for a limited edition archival print.
What's included:
- Limited Edit...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"Avant" Black & White Art Print 36" x 24" in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Avant" Black & White Art Print 36" x 24" in Ed. of 25 by Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Year photo was taken: 2020
Art Print
Limited Edition of 25
Picture size:
Height: 36" inch
Width: 24"...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Sophie- Limited edition contemporary print, Black white sensual photo, Nude
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Sophie - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1995 - Edition of 10
This image was captured on film in 1995.
The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pi...
I melt #6. Color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Southern Oaks
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper with natural deckled edges and contact printed. Since platinum, like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Platinum
$2,800
49 Via Dezza at Sunset, Milan - Italian Architecture Street Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
49 Via Dezza at Sunset, Italian street photography from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of Milan.
A Short History of Milan' began in N...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Large Landscape Tree Nature Wildlife Photograph India Orange Green Yellow Forest
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, Infrared photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper, 64" x 42.7"
*please note this artwork can be printed at any size so long as the ratio r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Seascape I Diptych - abstract photograph of water color cloud horizon
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format abstract photograph of water color clouds and horizon
from a series of photographic works capturing the sea blue color palette of the ocean
SEASCAPE I Diptych by Frank...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Marilyn Monroe in "Something's Got to Give" Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white candid shot of famed actress Marilyn Monroe in "Something's Got to Give", circa 1962.
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One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity Vault archives...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Black and White
Tulip Fields 37 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, flowers, vivid
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 37 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
C Print
Erotic Portraits by Franco Marocco - Vintage Photograph - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic portraits by Franco Marocco is a lot of three photographic prints on Agfa baryta paper.
Print realized from square-medium film in 1990 circa. Handwritten pencil notes on back...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Atlantic Ocean Series - Goth #7 - landscape, unframed
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Atlantic Ocean series places a little contextual history of this scenic image with its maritime history at that spot with the interplay of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Aspen Study I - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study I by Frank Schott
a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Dreaming Is Nursed in Darkness
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
This photograph by Bill Costa is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Palazzo del Quirinale, Sala Napoleonica, Rome, Italy
Located in New York City, NY
48 x 60 inches - edition of 5
Chromogenic Print – Unframed
Signed by the artist - Certificate of Authenticity
Free Shipping – Ask us foar custom framing options.
As a world-renowned...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print
Arthur Ashe in Action
Located in Austin, TX
Retro 1960s photograph depicting a young Arthur Ashe in action.
Arthur Ashe was an American professional tennis player. He won three Grand Slam titles i...
Category
1960s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment
Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo 6, Italy
Located in New York City, NY
Chromogenic Print – Unframed
Free Shipping – Ask us for custom framing options.
40 x 48 inches - edition of 5
48 x 60 inches - edition of 5
71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5
"My ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Digital Pigment
Girls (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girls (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
24x20cm, Edition of 10,
digital C-Print print, based on an original expired Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
'Sombras Doradas (5)' Large Scale Photo, Desert Silhouette Sunset Yellow Gold
Located in Penzance, GB
'Sombras Doradas (2)'
Limited edition archival photograph. Unframed, hand signed and numbered
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Shadows painted on the finca wall: low December sun, golden, luminous, casting soft silhouettes through the aperture of the Eucalyptus leaves.
Sophia's poetic photographs are an exploration of the balance in all things: in the sensual interplay of light and shadow; in wild raw energy and serene stillness; in the enduring and the effervescent. They are a contemplation of the awareness that everything in existence is temporary, they speak of the ephemeral nature of all things. Moments, feelings, experiences cherished and appreciated in their impermanence, for that is where the beauty comes from. 'I work with time, and the immeasurable spaces of experience within... tangible traces, evidence left behind, records; process in action, stilled'.
40 x 60 inches
Limited edition of 25
Archival Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® paper, one of the most beautiful and high quality art papers available. The luxurious matt finish provides a reflection free image that is rich in detail, depth and tone.
Hand signed, titled and numbered to the lower right corner on an approximately 1 inch white border.
Each print comes with a Certificate of Authenticity featuring a signature and edition number.
Other sizes available, please contact
* Please note that images of the artwork in situ and framed are an indication of how the piece can look, and in the context of other artworks. The artwork is being sold unframed. Framing options are available, please contact.
Discounted pricing for multiple artwork purchases, please contact for further information.
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About The Artist
Sophia Milligan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Harvest Field with Cypresses color photograph limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Harvest Field with Cypresses, Tuscany, Italy - no. 21323
Color fine art long minimalist landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7.
All Gera...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Digital Pigment
Nude - Platinum Palladium print over Gold leaf, Original Art in Limited Edition
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Nude 01 - Platinum Palladium print over 24 carat Gold leaf on vellum paper
Edition 1 of 8 , plus 2 AP ( small size )
Photographic reproduction on handmade sensitised paper ( Pla...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Gold, Platinum, Gold Leaf
Don't Tell Mamma #11. Black and white nude photograph
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This is a series of black and white nude photographs that began with analog photography between 1992 and 2005, followed by a transition period to digital photography. Erkaya is curre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled 08 (Saigon)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Untitled 08 (Saigon) - 2003
20x20cm,
Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist Inventory #19813.
Not ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Warrior - El Mono 2. From The series Buscando Papá. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Mercury- underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35" x 47"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This striking underwater nude photograph captures dramatic movement against a pure black backdrop, where flowing crimson fabric creates dynamic contrast with pale forms. The composit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy (Heavenly Falls)' - 2016 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Pola...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Grace (Kings Road) - unique solarized gelatin silver artist print
By Mona Kuhn
Located in San Francisco, CA
In Kings Road (2022) Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the midcentury architectural elements of the iconic Schindler House in Los Angeles. Built by Austrian architect Rudolph M. Schindler in 1922, the house was both a social and design experiment and an avant-garde hub for intellectuals and artists in the 1920s and ’30s.
The body of works incorporates chromogenic color prints, reflecting vignettes and materials of the building's emotional architecture, juxtaposition with unique solarized gelatin silver prints capturing traces of an ethereal human presence.
Grace (2022)
Kings Road: A Rudolph Schindler House
30" x 40" / 76cm x 102cm /edition of 12
15" x 20" / 38cm x 56cm / edition of 12
limited edition solarization photograph printed by the artist + accompanied by signed artist certificate:
artist signature label (8x10")
signed/editioned/dated/titled by the artist + stamped for authenticity
label is placed centered on verso of the mounted print
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About the artist
Acclaimed for her contemporary depictions, Kuhn is considered a leading artist in the world of figurative discourse. Throughout a career spanning more than twenty years, the underlying theme of her work is her reflection on humanity’s longing for spiritual connection and solidarity. As she solidified her photographic style, Kuhn created a notable approach to the nude by developing friendships with her subjects, and employing a range of playful visual strategies that use natural light and minimalist settings to evoke a sublime sense of comfort between the human figure and its environment. Her work is natural, restful, and a reinterpretation of the nude in the canon of contemporary art.
For the past two decades, the Los-Angeles based artist's works have been shown steadily, revealing an astonishing consistency in technique, of subject and of purpose. In 2001, Kuhn’s photographs were first seen by an influential audience during the exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Kuhn’s distinct aesthetic has propelled her as one of the most collectible contemporary art photographers—her work is in private and public collections worldwide and she is represented by galleries across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debuted by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), Private (2014), and She Disappeared into Complete Silence (2018/19). In addition, Stanley/Barker Editions published Kuhn's Bushes & Succulents in 2018. In 2021, Thames & Hudson published a career retrospective titled Works. Kuhn's most recent publication Kings Road (2022) with Steidl accompanies a multi-dimensional museum traveling exhibition shown in Europe and the US.
Mona Kuhn’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Kuhn's work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna Austria, The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver Canada, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Australian Centre for Photography. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Solo Exhibitions
2025
Mona Kuhn: Y Tu Desnudo será Un Gran Poema, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Mona Kuhn: Kings Road, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, China
2024
Mona Kuhn: The Schindler House, A Love Affair, Galerie XII...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
182.02.14 by Klaus Kampert - Black & white nude photography, woman, abstract
Located in Paris, FR
182.02.14 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. It belongs to the series "Porcelain". In this black-and-white series, the artist explores the abstract...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Transmission lines, Atacama Desert, Chile, 17 July, 2017, limited edition, Ariel color photograph, limited edition, signed
ATACAMA: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: Renewable Energy and the Shifting Human Landscape is a long-term aerial and ground-based photography project documenting global renewable energy development. Chile is the world's leading copper exporter and the second-largest lithium producer. We use Chilean copper...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Large Format Polaroid Photograph Still Life Color Photo Dye Print Robert Fichter
By Robert Fichter
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Fichter
Title: Jonah
Date: 1980
Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer)
Location: Cambridge Massachusetts United States
Dimensions: Image: 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm), Paper: 29 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm)
This depicts a large mouth fish with a toy soldier and Asian art (tattoo art?) in an abstract assemblage collage.
From "Five Still Lifes"
New York: Paradox Editions, Ltd., 1980. 5 original Polaroid color prints. Each hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 37/40 in ink in the margin. Each approximately 24 x 20in (image size). Each is on original as there are no negatives in this process. The photographers included: Robert Cumming, Robert Fichter, Betty Hahn, Victor Schrager...
Category
1980s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Color, Polaroid
World Class Sailboats on the Open Seas, Classic, Horizontal, Minimalist
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"In Sync"
The iconic super yachts Lionheart, Ranger, Rainbow, and Velsheda appear to work together to create a pattern where there was none in this timeless and classic black and white photograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Oui Mon Cul #20 (40x31cm) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Nude, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Oui Mon Cul' #20 (The Eyes Of The Fox),
2015, Edition 2/7, 40x31cm.
Art print based on a Polaroid photograph on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH, 305gsm, 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Polaroid
White Carpet Odalisque, Family Home
By Lissa Rivera
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
12 x 18 inches, image
(Edition of 8 + 1 AP)
20 x 30 inches, image
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Billie Holiday at the Downbeat
Located in Austin, TX
This capture features Billie Holiday at Downbeat, New York, N.Y., circa June 1946
Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young...
Category
1940s Contemporary Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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