Conceptual Art
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
#5
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
Queen #2
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the famed Queen Band. Freddie Mercury in the lead. Photographed by Joester. Images on sides as well. Not framed.
Ab...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Photographic Film, Mixed Media
Virtual Reality 30 X 25
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Each of Heriberto Mora's paintings has a story for the viewer to imagine.
Heriberto Mora was born in Havana, Cuba. He graduated from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wonderful World
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Woman on ladder in pool. Blue hues.
About the Artist:
Cabell Molina is a contemporary artist transplanted from California to the east. Where Cabell has proved herse...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Prince - 3D
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the fabulous Prince.
About the Artists:
Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig and Tay...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lenticular
Pieces
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting. The implied narrative adds to the piece. A glimpse into a child's world, one we all have experienced. Tone is engaging, fun with universal appeal.
About the art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Human Figure: Vince Carter Model
Located in New York, NY
Kobe Bryant portrait in abstract background.
About the Artist:
Jack Florczyk, known professionally as Jack Flo, is an American contemporary fine artist. Working with acrylic pai...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
words fail (i) : contemporary collage
Located in New York, NY
Collage by Torea Frey created using found papers from vintage dictionaries and thesauruses, graphite powder, and matte medium.
Torea is a writer,...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite
Bernar Venet Position of Three Undetermined Lines Charcoal and Collage on Paper
By Bernar Venet
Located in Paris, FR
1984
Unique artwork
Charcoal, cardboard, collage on paper
Signed, dated and titled lower right
Registered under the inventory number bv84d5 at Bernar Venet Studio
70.5 x 113.5 cm ...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Cardboard
The Messenger
By Phil Marco
Located in New York, NY
Face Mounted Plexi. Aluminum braced archival print. Mysterious 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 Who...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Giclée
Andy & Rob
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on wood featuring the famed Andy Warhol. Photographed by Joester. Images on sides as well. Not framed.
About the Artist:
Steve Joester is a British-born Rock & ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Photographic Film, Mixed Media
Prime Colors
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
Nostalgic painting of vintage toy car that has been worked on by a novice mechanic. Oil on canvas with black frame one inch on front, two inches deep. This piece sold but commissio...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
CAROUSEL IN PINK
Located in New York, NY
CAROUSEL IN PINK
Large scale dynamic. A four-panel piece, artist's modern take on the traditional carousel. Imaginary horses, colorful and full of flamboyant gestures.
Each panel...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
End of the Affair #2 - Ltd Ed
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
#1
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
#3
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
End of the Affair #3 Ltd Ed.
Located in New York, NY
Vintage 50's Barbie with vintage accessories and set. Narrative depicts title - the end of the affair. Metallic print produced on metal. Black and white Photography. Ltd Ed.
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Medaglia D Oro - Whiskers, Stallion Studio Portrait
Located in London, GB
Medaglia d'Oro (foaled April 11, 1999) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won several major stakes races including the 2002 Travers Stakes and the 2003 Whitney Handicap. He also finished second in the 2002 Belmont Stakes, the Breeders' Cup Classic in both 2002 and 2003, and the 2004 Dubai World Cup. Since retiring to stud, he has become an excellent stallion whose progeny include 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, two-time champion filly Songbird and two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Golden Sixty.
Medaglia d'Oro - 'Whiskers' by John Reardon...
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Archival P...
Nude Show Girl Buttocks Pondered by Show Horse - Sexy Cartoon Mad Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
This sexy joke cartoon with thought balloons and some bathroom humor was done by the brilliant humorist cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee. The joke's...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Frida - 3D
Located in New York, NY
An homage to the great Frida Kahlo.
About the Artists:
Animated through an assemblage of analog, digital, and lenticular photographic technologies, these selections from Reisig and...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lenticular
How the Rich Make Street Art - Palm Beach 5
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Landscaping art aesthetically is the opposite of the generally accepted meaning of Graffiti Street Art...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Blind Date
By Robin Austin
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dye-Sublimation print on aluminum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Surreal to Conceptual Distortion Color Walls With Post-hospital Bathtub Photo
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Rosenthal’s Conceptual Photography is a concrete manifestation of complex inner stresses from external realities of all kinds: physical, familial, political, religious, time, space and relentless travel. Rosenthal begins by shooting surreal photographs in a kind of trance-state. She believes that the resultant images, and the Conceptual Distortions created from them, reveal elements of both her particular personality and psychological states, and reach the same in the viewers’ own. In artist’s own words: “I gave myself a camera and promised not to interfere.”
During this decade of relentless exhibition and travel, Rosenthal has been shooting several hundred rolls of color and BW 35mm film with analog Olympus OM...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dé-coll/age happenings
By Wolf Vostell
Located in London, GB
3D multiple, 1966, published by The Something Else Press, New York, a wooden box with plexiglass slipcover, containing one book with 94 pages, ‘Performances Notations 1959/66’ 15 fol...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mylar, Plexiglass, Wood, Paper, Screen
«City mirror NO42_ New York World Trade Center »
Located in Porto, 13
"Through Traveling You're Able To Understand The World & Find Endless Inspiration" - Lixian Cai
Lixian began to travel outside of China, documenting each ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Concert Tee shirt Tapestry: 'The Mammoth Tapestry'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Conceptual Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Water Music Series #5023 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon.
Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Golden Gate Bride with Sailboats
Located in Miami, FL
Cover Nikon World, Spring 2005, Published in Popular Photography Magazine 2000, Times Square Billboard 2001
Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 ...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photographic Film
EDOUARD MERZOUK - Chanel Fossil Bag
By Edouard Merzouk
Located in PARIS, FR
Chanel unique fossil scupture part of the ''Collapse'' collection :
About Collapse:
Ecological peril and social emergency may not be fantasies.
What if our civilization collapses t...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Cast Stone
Apple Temptation
By Robin Austin
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Dye-Sublimation print on aluminum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Reginald and Perrin 2
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 22
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 24
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Reginald and Perrin 26
Located in BARCELONA, ES
"Pinté por primera vez estas obras porque no sabía qué pintar o qué podría pintarse. Se trata, ciertamente, de un comienzo desdichado que no conduce a nada significativo. Sin embargo...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Oil
Certificate, from The International Anthology of Contemporary Engraving
Located in London, GB
Etching on paper, 1962/64, signed and numbered E.A. from the edition of 60, printed by Atelier Georges Leblanc, Paris, published by Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 25.2 x 19.2 cm. (9.9 x 7.6 in.)
Various Artists with George Brecht...
Category
1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Etching
Weather Project, Evening of the Sandstorm
Located in Natchez, MS
This stunning work by Louise Feneley is somehow both abstract and figurative. Is it a pearl or a glowing ball of light? It's hard to tell. The light, co...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
El Grito De La Gitana, from Corazon Sagrado series by Delilah Montoya, 1993
Located in Denton, TX
This image is a collotype print from Delilah Montoya's series, Corazon Sagrado, and is edition 1/1. It is signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin by Delilah Montoya.
This collotype print features a woman in a dress dancing in front of a backdrop on a checkered floor...
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Other Medium
Without innocence how can there be wisdom, from Corazon Sagrado series
Located in Denton, TX
Edition 1/1
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin.
Collotype print
Category
1990s Conceptual Art
Materials
Other Medium
Public Garden
Located in Roma, RM
a colorful work realized with chewing gum by the Italian artist with several institutional exhibitions all over the world
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Other Medium
Canyon Whisper - Other sizes available
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Nature shot. In a canyon. Black and white.
About the artist:
Mital Patel is an internationally recognized nature and wildlife photographer who focuses on capturing bea...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
De la serie aglomeraciones _04
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#draw #scketch #pencil #frame #box
Por un lado está el diario de lo que ha estado sucediendo durante los últimos meses alrededor del mundo. De pequeño formato, los dibujos muestran e...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
De la serie aglomeraciones
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#draw #scketch #pencil #frame #box
Por un lado está el diario de lo que ha estado sucediendo durante los últimos meses alrededor del mundo. De pequeño formato, los dibujos muestran e...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
De la serie aglomeraciones _03
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#draw #scketch #pencil #frame #box
Por un lado está el diario de lo que ha estado sucediendo durante los últimos meses alrededor del mundo. De pequeño formato, los dibujos muestran e...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Carbon Pencil
¿Por qué me llaman artista?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed #ambar
JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
Onda energética de siete colores
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone #color #energy #seed
JUANA MARTÍNEZ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
¿A qué te invita la estela?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Michoacán, 1953) Lives and works...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
El proceso del sol
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #clay #sun #energy
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalp...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Magazine Paper, Clay
¿Qué hay más allá de la materia?
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #stone
JUANA MARTÍNEZ
(Tlalpujajua, Mic...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Stone
La música de los canes I
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#fantastic #zoology #texture #piano #keya #sound #music #color #dog #animal
miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, litirature, editorial.
the work as...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
La música de los canes II
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#fantastic #zoology #texture #piano #keya #sound #music #color #dog #animal
miguel villafuerte (Quito 1991) graphic designer and visual artist, litirature, editorial.
the work as...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Wood, Oil, Acrylic
Escala
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
Intervalos
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
Ritmo
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
Caligrafía arrítmica
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
Sin título, rhythm, pins,
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
Arrítmico
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
Sin título, rhythm, pins,
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
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.