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.
Three Dog Night
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
The title for this work was inspired by the ruminations of Charles Manson in the 2010 publication Charles Manson NOW. “When you come to prison and you stay the fifteen years, all the dogs of the world are dead when you come back out, there is no dog that was a live when you were out last time. The three dog...
Acrylic, Canvas, Glitter, Spray Paint
$6,500
Los Carpinteros Cuban Art Photograph Tuneles Populares Silver Gelatin Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Los Carpinteros (Cuban, 1992-present). Silver gelatin print photograph, large format. From the series "Tuneles Populares" (The People's Tunnels) 1999 Edition 1/5 Provenance: Bliss Fi...
Silver Gelatin
$1,400Sale Price|20% Off
Abeni (We Prayed for Her and She Arrived) -21st Century, Contemporary Figurative
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. The ...
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Reinhard Görner, Schussenried Abbey I Library, Germany
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Schussenried Abbey I Library Germany 50" x 63" Edition of 10 $6,000 60" x 75.7" Edition of 7 $9,000 70" x 88.3" Edition of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label,...
Lambda
$1,160Sale Price|20% Off
Radiance of Joy 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, African, Women, Happily Smiling
By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authen...
Fabric, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Reinhard Görner 'Toreno, Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid, Spain' (Library, Madrid)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Toreno Biblioteca del Senado, Madrid 2017 50 x 59.7 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 71.7 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 83.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered...
C Print, Lambda
$2,120Sale Price|20% Off
Unknown Soldier - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Military, Veteran, Men
By Makama John
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
Hilda - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women Hair, Eyes
By Makama John
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
$6,000
Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Mixed Media Conceptual Painting by Anton Solomoukha
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anton Solomoukha, Russian (1945 - ) Title: Yoko Ono and John Lennon Year: 1990 Medium: Oil and Collage on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size:...
Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Bottles, Ceramic Sculpture with Lighting by Ilena Finocchi
By Ilena Finocchi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ilena Finocchi Title: Bottles Year: circa 2009 Medium: Plaster-Cast Ceramic Molds, Lights, Wooden Display Light Box Size: 16 x 20 x 20 in. (40.6...
Porcelain
Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense Ravenna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso The sunlit entrance to the Sala delle scienze e delle arti (Hall of sciences and arts) with the bust of Teresa Gamba (Lord Byron’s lover) in background. The vista is framed by a rhythmic repetition of gleaming wooden doorways and archways, housing shelves of antique tomes. Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library...
C Print, Lambda
$1,133
G_XII - 21st Century, Abstract Drawing, Black, White, Minimalist, Contemporary
By Alina Aldea
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
G_XII, 2019 White ink on black cardboard (signed) 39 3/8 H x 27 9/16 W in. 100 H x 70 W cm Alina Aldea's drawings, project all the possible forms which appear to rapidly disappear, ...
Ink, Cardboard
$2,528Sale Price|20% Off
Mare Veen - "No Title I" - fine art print - ready to hang
By Mare Veen
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Mare Veen - "No Title I". Of the series 'Free Fall'. Result of a personal journey, looking for answers to the question 'What is Being?'. This process was inspired by philosophers su...
Rag Paper, Digital
$3,080Sale Price|20% Off
Echoes of Success and Unseen Burdens - 21st Century, Contemporary, Garden, Men
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
Canvas, Coffee, Mixed Media
$2,600Sale Price|20% Off
Ecstasy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Indigenous, Children in Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. A young girl holding a yellow rose flower is seen in this painting during her playtime rejoicing after receiving a piece of good news. The yellow rose flower is a symbol of joy, happiness, and gratitude. About Artist Oluwatobiloba...
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense Ravenna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso The...
C Print, Lambda
$1,480Sale Price|20% Off
All in My Head - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Love, Thoughts
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Letter P ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER P by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Letter O ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER O by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$1,480Sale Price|20% Off
Les Mannequins (The Supermodels) 2 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Hair
By Alawaye Tope
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
The Beef Sisters - May - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester May - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in fr...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Kate - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Kate - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in f...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Ella - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Ella - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in f...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Emily - Unique Polaroid - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Emily - 2023 Original Polaroid, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in ...
Polaroid
$1,850
"Untitled 1.15" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.15" Photography 16' x 24' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina García de Marina was born in Gijón (Spain) in 1975. He emerged thru a deep transformation in 2010. A do...
Digital Pigment
$440Sale Price|20% Off
How Humans Sense the World (Hear)
By Stephen Anderson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Digital collage, image transfer on wood
Digital
The Beef Sisters - Pip - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Pip - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in f...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Page - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Page - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in ...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Mika - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Mika - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in ...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Shosh - Unique Polaroids - Contemporary, Youth, Photograph
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Shosh - 2023 Original Polaroids, mixed media. 10.7 x 8.8 cm (total), 7.8 x 7.6 cm (image area). Signed in...
Polaroid
$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
Behind The Smile, Conceptual Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 21st Century
By Maria Tendo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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...
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
White Lollipop Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century
By Maria Tendo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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...
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
Red Hair Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual 21st Century Art
By Maria Tendo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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...
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
Athlete Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual Style, 21st Century
By Maria Tendo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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...
Acrylic, Canvas
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Fruitless Endeavor: Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 21st Century Art
By Maria Tendo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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...
Canvas, Acrylic
The Beef Sisters - Ella and May - 16 unique Polaroids
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Ella and May - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef S...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Sophie - 16 unique Polaroids
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sophie - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters...
Polaroid
The Beef Sisters - Sui - 16 unique Polaroids
By Curtiz
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Beef Sisters A Polaroid-based art series by Kris 'Curtiz' De Meester Sui - 2023 16 original Polaroids, mixed media. 50x50cm installed. Signed in front. "The Beef Sisters" i...
Polaroid
$2,600Sale Price|20% Off
Silent Echoes: Unframed Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 21st Century
By John Ali
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
Acrylic, Canvas
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...
Mixed Media, Lithograph
Conceptual Artist Allen Ruppersberg Hand Printed Lithograph Prints & Photographs
Located in Surfside, FL
Allen Ruppersberg (American, 1944-) Lithograph, Mixed media From the Top Ten Historical Similarities (and Differences) Between Prints and Photographs. This sale is of one print not t...
Mixed Media, Lithograph
The Blue Books, Upper Library, Oxford, German Interior Architecture Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exquisite meditation on knowledge and architectural splendor, Reinhard Görner’s The Blue Books invites the viewer into the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Upper Library. The interplay ...
C Print, Lambda
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Project 12:31 [ House ] 48 x 69" / 122 x 175cm
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
PROJECT 12:31 [ HOUSE ] by Frank Schott long exposure light drawings using motion graphics of scientific scans to recreate the human form 48" x 69" / 122cm x 175cm edition of 7 ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
$1,480Sale Price|20% Off
Game of Life Mixed Media Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 21st Century
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In this game of life, we fiercely strive, Chasing dreams, hoping to survive. Each step we take, is a move on the board, Sometimes rewarded, sometimes ignored. We start with a roll of...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Letter H ( 27 x 40" / 68 x 102cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER H by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Letter H ( 48 x 71" / 122 x 188cm )
Located in San Francisco, CA
LETTER H by Christian Stoll large scale conceptual photography playing with viewer's perspective incredible details in this body of work, a series of environmental stills playing w...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
Unbroken Oil Painting on Canvas, Conceptual Style, Unframed
By John Ali
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 (Issued by the Gal...
Oil, Canvas
$880Sale Price|20% Off
Wooden Elegance Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by...
Acrylic, Canvas
Reinhard Görner, Law Library, Zurich, Switzerland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Law Library Zurich, Switzerland 50" x 62.5" Edition of 10 $6,000 60" x 75" Edition of 7 $9,000 70" x 87.5" Edition of 5 $11,000 signed ...
Lambda
Flora and Fauna Silkscreen
Located in Surfside, FL
Shipping will be a bit longer as this piece is located in Israel Michail Grobman, Israeli, born in Soviet Union, 1939. Michail Grobman was born in Moscow. He grew up writing poetry...
Lithograph
$2,350
"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 8.20" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition 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 Gijó...
Digital Pigment
$1,850
"Untitled 3.16" Photography 24' x 16' inch Edition of 15 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 3.16" 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
Phillips Exeter Academy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Phillips Exeter Academy Library 60 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 70 x 58.5 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 80 x 66.8 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed a...
C Print, Lambda
$1,000Sale Price|20% Off
My Father's Car Acrylic Painting in Conceptual Style, Unframed
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"My Father's Car" is a striking artwork created by Desmond Akindoju, depicting a young man sitting in a car as though he's the driver, complete with a...
Acrylic, Canvas
$4,000
Post Soviet Russian Avant Garde Art Photograph Mixed Media Gum Arabic 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 mid...
Mixed Media, Photographic Paper
Candida Höfer, Deutsche Oper - Signed C-Print, Contemporary Photography
Located in Hamburg, DE
Candida Höfer (German, b. 1944) Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, 2012 Medium: C-Print on photo paper Image dimensions: 30 x 45,5 cm Sheet dimensions: 38 x 53,5 cm Edition of 100: H...
C Print
Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards from Afar' have been given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. The fine detailed tapestry of the original small postage stamp has been brought to life, made unique by the franking stamp and Heidler & Heeps specialist darkroom process. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic c-print, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. The print is fragile and it is recommended it is handled and framed professionally. This artwork is available in other sizes. Be sure to look at Heidler & Heeps other artworks listed on 1stDibs as they are great paired for interior design projects. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$1,080Sale Price|20% Off
Extraordinary Woman 2, Mixed Media on Canvas, Conceptual, 21st Century
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Extraordinary Woman" by Michael Adetula is a captivating artwork that celebrates the unique beauty and personality of a young woman who exudes confidence and charm. At first glance,...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich - Blue British Square Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Grass, blue abstract photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot be...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Hubcap, Manea - Monochrome Vintage British Square Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Hubcap, subtle interior photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin