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CONCEPTUAL STYLE

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.

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Style: Conceptual
Untitled Mandala
Untitled Mandala

Untitled Mandala

Located in Buffalo, NY

An original salt on paper work by contemporary conceptual artist Jody Hanson. This piece is "Untitled Mandala", 2013, Copper sulfate and Potassium ferricyanide on paper. Artwo...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Copper

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro
Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

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2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

#5

#5

By Nadine Saacks

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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Archival Pigment

Keynote XIV
Keynote XIV

Keynote XIV

By Dianne Baker

Located in Buffalo, NY

Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out of Buffalo, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States and in Canada and is included in several public and...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Found Objects, Tape, Wood

Child's Play (I and II)
Child's Play (I and II)

Child's Play (I and II)

By Dianne Baker

Located in Buffalo, NY

Each of the works is 14" x 16" x 1". They are meant to be hung together either vertically or horizontally. Diane Baker is a mixed media and fiber-related sculptor working out o...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Turkish Medal

Turkish Medal

By Michael Beam

Located in Buffalo, NY

Beam recognizes that a successful work of art “must develop its own personality…It must empower, engage or provoke the public’s attention.” One exhibition in particular, titled Owavino(1997-1998) [meaning last minute] held in Illinois—perhaps the pinnacle of media mastery—garnered Beam numerous reviews, attacks and responses, even after the exhibiton had closed, for his work Turkish Medal (1996-1997-2013). The painting combines a comparatively altered version of one of Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator Bill Mauldin...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic, Latex, Latex, Masonite, Wood

Untitled (BEEF)
Untitled (BEEF)

Untitled (BEEF)

By Michael Beam

Located in Buffalo, NY

Mistreated and abandoned spray-painted butcher paper (saturated), archival mounts, appropriated internet imagery heat transferred with Ink Jet T-shirt Tr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography

By Miroslav Tichy

Located in Zurich, CH

Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 16,8 x 11,8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...

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Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Man Becomes His Work - Cartoon
Man Becomes His Work - Cartoon

Man Becomes His Work - Cartoon

By Gahan Wilson

Located in Miami, FL

This is one of many cartoons by Gahan Wilson where the subject morphs into the identity of his work. "Wish Not to Be Disturbed for the Duration of Winter - Playboy Cartoon from 1960...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Ink

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Engraving

Tempus Fugit

Tempus Fugit

By Phil Marco

Located in New York, NY

Face mounted Plexi. Aluminum Braced. Archival Print. Humorous, conceptual subject matter. ABOUT THE ARTIST Marco studied fine art at Pratt Institute and the Art Students League in New York. New York Times photography critic Gene Thornton called Marco “a Minimalist, whose images are sensual, whimsical, often surreal, always strong, and deceptively simple.” “I’ve had the pleasure of working with Phil Marco on a number of my films. Phil is a man of extraordinary talents. It seems that his passion is to take an everyday object or event, and show it in an entirely new and exciting way.” Martin Scorsese. Phil’s work is represented in MOMA, The Museum of the Moving Image, and The George Eastman Museum of Photography. His first photographs were studies for his paintings, before he launched a career in print advertising. He eventually became a Director / DP for film and television for a vast base of national and international clients with his wife Patricia as Partner and Producer. In the 1980’s and 90’s Phil was the go to person for Special Effects in Television and Cinema, also best known for his graphic conceptual still lives, and his consummate mastery of lighting, and design. He’s won many awards for his work, including numerous Cannes Lions, Cleo’s, a Grammy for his print work on the legendary “Tommy the...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Don't Cry!", Conceptual Bronze Sculpture, Limited Edition, 2010+
"Don't Cry!", Conceptual Bronze Sculpture, Limited Edition, 2010+

"Don't Cry!", Conceptual Bronze Sculpture, Limited Edition, 2010+

By Maidy Morhous

Located in San Diego, CA

This is a limited edition conceptual bronze sculpture made by San Diego artist, Maidy Morhous. Its dimensions are 12" x 8" x 14". A certificate of authenticity will follow its delive...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Bronze

Sing Me A Song

Sing Me A Song

By Cabell Molina

Located in New York, NY

Image of woman empowered. Bright colors. About the Artist: Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herself exce...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Los Americanos
Los Americanos

Los Americanos

By Nadín Ospina

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation. Humor and irony with a crit...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Cotton, Photographic Paper

Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)
Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)

Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)

By Gianfranco Pezzot

Located in London, GB

Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciprocity". This se...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)
Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)

Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography)

By Gianfranco Pezzot

Located in London, GB

Ritual Sacrifice (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciprocity". This se...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

The Far Shore
The Far Shore

The Far Shore

By Joyce Wieland

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Joyce Wieland (1931-1998) was one of the most accomplished and versatile Canadian artists of the 20th century. Emerging on the Toronto art scene in the early 1960s, throughout her career Wieland would explore the role of women, the body, nationalism, and intimacy using a variety of mediums. During much of the 1970s, Wieland was consumed by the creation (and recovery) of making her single feature film "The Far Shore". Her all-encompassing approach included writing the script, directing, co-producing, and trying to finance the project, a task that she notoriously despised. The film was loosely inspired by the life and death of the Canadian painter, Tom Thompson...

Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Audrey

Audrey

By Karl Soderlund

Located in New York, NY

Audrey Hepburn. Portrait. Abstract Feel. Oil on Linen. Sides painted black. About the Artist: Karl has been a fine artist his entire life and is well known for his portraits, seascapes and landscapes. Karl’s numerous accomplishments are evident; You can find his work hanging in over 300 public and private collections, including Interpublic Companies, Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo and the Heisman Trophy...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Tony Hernandez

Located in Atlanta, GA

tony hernandez was born in Atlanta in 1964 and has been painting professionally since 1988. while he is a southern artist, his works are far from the re...

Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Luna 1
Luna 1

Luna 1

By Erik Perez

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

An innate and atypical landscape artist, Eric Pérez is an intellectual who paints. He knows and loves Mexican and world history, from which he derives his contemporary context. His p...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

The Bubble - Circular Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, geometric, blue
The Bubble - Circular Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, geometric, blue

The Bubble - Circular Contemporary Landscape/Abstract Painting, geometric, blue

By Nick Peña

Located in Signal Mountain, TN

Peña’s works range from painting to multimedia installations that question the ever-changing psychological landscape of America; asking the viewer to re-examine their perceptions of the “American Dream” and the affects that pursuit has on our environment. In "The Buble", Peña takes a more traditional approach to representing a house in the phase of construction with bold and vivid colors and contrasts the image with cut Sintra board slowly pulsating downward from underneath the house. The light blue of the sky contrasts with a deep orange hue for the house. The work is framed with a 1 inch white border. Nick Peña...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

PVC, Acrylic, Watercolor

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Mario Bedini

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Mario Bedini

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Promises
Promises

Promises

By Barry Wolfryd

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

#murano #glass Barry Wolfryd (1952) Barry Wolfryd, born in Los Angeles and a naturalized Mexican, has spent most of his artistic career in Mexico, where he has lived for the past 35 ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Ceramic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Julio Castillo

Located in Barcelona, CT

The painting is being offered with work and authenticity certificate

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Caligrafía arrítmica
Caligrafía arrítmica

Caligrafía arrítmica

By Lidzie Alvisa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Analogía de la luna
Analogía de la luna

Analogía de la luna

By Juana Martínez

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #clay #sun #energy #moon #female JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoac...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Clay, Magazine Paper

Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal
Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal

Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Kremlin (Rusia)
Kremlin (Rusia)

Kremlin (Rusia)

By Donis Dayán

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Intervalos
Intervalos

Intervalos

By Lidzie Alvisa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Into the whale
Into the whale

Into the whale

By Miguel Villafuerte

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

#fantastic #zoology #texture #eye #paper, #color, #hole and #eye, into the #whale, from film Into The Woods, miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, lit...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Wood, Oil, Acrylic

Milagro 12
Milagro 12

Milagro 12

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Acrylic

Éxtasis
Éxtasis

Éxtasis

By Nadín Ospina

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

He refers to the history of art, particularly to pop culture and the social circumstances of its local environment as well as its universal confrontation. Humor and irony with a crit...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Bronze

Spheres of Influence
Spheres of Influence

Spheres of Influence

By Lawrence Weiner

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942) is one of the most-distinctive American conceptual artists. His philosophy and aesthetic developed concurrently to Sol LeWitt yet Weiner has focused far more on (text-based) installation - typically in public spaces. Exhibited at Leo Castelli during the 1970's, Weiner has been an institutional darling with major exhibitions at most of the world's top museums. As a significant portion of his output is temporary installation, his multiples (which are few and far between) are sought-after and cherished by collectors. This rare silkscreen was published in conjunction with Weiner's solo exhibition "SPHERES OF INFLUENCE...

Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Screen

Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)
Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)

Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)

By Gianfranco Pezzot

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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Paper

Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)
Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)

Triumph of Void (Abstract Photography)

By Gianfranco Pezzot

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...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Paper

Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)
Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)

Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting)

By Peter Soriano

Located in London, GB

Porch drawing 2 (Abstract Painting) Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally around him. He tends to be “in” the configuration that is the subject of the work. Soriano is fond of “systems” objects attached to other objects, such as the wiring plan of a room. But very often there are other shapes that play a role in the work. The artist would fold and rework a piece a number of times. Folding seems to concentrate the dialogue that attracts him. Reworking is part of his nature. The finished work normally is the result of this ebb and flow between the heightening and repositioning the relationship between forms. This drawing highlights the configurations of a large porch that Soriano used as a studio in Maine during Summer 2010. Peter Soriano is a Philippines-born French-American abstract artist who divides his time between New York City and Penobscot, Maine. Although he began his career as a sculptor, his work is now two-dimensional. He is known for his bold spray-painted wall murals...

Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Pencil

Conceptual art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual art 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 art 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, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Kojun, Jose Sierra, and xulong zhang. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual art, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $500,000, while the average work sells for $2,465.