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
Un alto
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
Milagro 15
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
Copyright
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over 25 years, they made a significant contribution to po...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Nova
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over 25 years, they made a significant contribution to po...
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1970s Conceptual Art
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Graphite
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
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Paper, Ink, Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
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Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Wildfire #32, Witch Creek Fire, Rancho Bernardo, CA, 2007" color photograph
Located in New York, NY
Wildfire #32, Witch Creek Fire, Rancho Bernardo, CA, 2007 (25"x30") Edition 9 + 3 artist prints, signed by the artist, Sasha Bezzubov
The photographs in the Wildfire series were made...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Nicaragua, " from the series "We are the Kings and Queens of Narnia"
Located in New York, NY
From the series "We are the Kings and Queens of Narnia." This is a series of photographs about Bezzubov's family's somewhat unconventional way of traveling around the world - by wal...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
C Print
"The Clandestine Traveler, " Ink, watercolor, graphite on paper
Located in New York, NY
Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer and inner geographical regions in this piece. The finished work is a d...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Graphite
El paseo de la niña
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
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Color
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered witha work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
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Oil
Eva al desnudo
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
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1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
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Ink
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1960s Conceptual Art
Materials
Lithograph
They grey square
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
What Ecstatic Danger
By Alex Gingrow
Located in New York, NY
graphite, flashe, ink and gesso on paper, 22"x30" signed by the artist
Alex Gingrow creates text-based paintings and drawings that are at turns witty, sardonic, poetic, self-deprecat...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Gesso, Ink, Graphite
Monet Cane
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
General Idea was formed in 1967 in Toronto and over the next nearly 30 years, the trio made a remarkable contribution to post-modern art.
With their subversive approach and intere...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Lluis Barba
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Leftist Hemisphere Disintegration Study Gerrymandered Version
Located in New York, NY
Ink and watercolor on paper, signed on reverse.
Presented floated in a finely crafted hardwood frame.
Titled as: "Plot Plan No. 178521 Leftist Hemisphere Disintegration Study Gerry...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Dual Chamber Confinement Study" watercolor ink, text based conceptual painting
Located in New York, NY
Titled: For All Intents and Purposes Dual Chamber Confinement Study Plot Plan No. 10615, presenting framed in a natural wood shadowbox frame.
This is a finely rendered pen and ink ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Plot Plan No. 170519
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 170519 Full-Dress Protectionist Pad With Knotted Entrance Strategy
This ink and watercolor, work on paper is from Patricia Smith's newly released series: "Shelter in P...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Plot Plan No. 13821
Located in New York, NY
Plot Plan No. 13821 For Proposed Positive Aspect Containment Strategy, watercolor and ink on paper, signed on reverse by the artist and presentd framed in a high quality shadowbox fr...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Plovers" Conceptual painting of birds and moon rocket engine
Located in New York, NY
In this conceptual painting, New York artist, Thomas Broadbent presents five portraits of Plovers in 2 rows with a finely detailed rendering of a moon rocket engine...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Traveling Landscape (Sunseeker)
Located in New York, NY
This sculptural installation incorporates running water and and interior light which activates the scene of a streambed along a grassy knoll.
Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated.
With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes with running streams and rivers inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Generalized Self Management
Located in New York, NY
graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper
30"x22"
available framed
Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art
Materials
Graphite, Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Witching Hour
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas. Dramatic. Female centric. Nighttime. Mysterious.
About the artist:
“There's a dry ironic twist to Paul’s paintings that give the work — while realistic — a postmodern feeling of reflection, observation and cultural critique. Somewhere between the Cohen Brothers...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-070
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 18,1 x 13,2 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/4 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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 6-9-23
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 23 x 16,5 cm (9 x 6 1/2 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, practic...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 3-8-236 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-10-51
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 16 x 8,4 cm (6 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pra...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-11-31
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 18 x 13 cm (7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, prac...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 10-1-54
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 23,4 x 14,5 cm (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 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...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic)
Untitled, MT Inv. No 7-3-11
Unknown, ca. 1970-1990
Silver Gelatin Print
Sheet 22,9 x 17,1 cm (9 x 6 3/4 in.)
Unique
Print only
Tichý, pract...
Category
Late 20th Century Conceptual Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
We Now Have All The Data
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual piece. Commentary on life. Humorous but impactful. Acrylic on canvas.
About the artist:
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Stephen Hall moved to New York in 1978 and began...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Conceptual Photographer Mitchell Funk created a Sci-Fi image 2 years before the iconic Close Encounters of a Third Kind was released in 1977. Funk's work is really two images combine...
Category
1970s Conceptual Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Emergency Broadcast
Located in New York, NY
Figurative piece with a fun, simple narrative. The beauty of the piece lies in its simplicity. On 3/4 canvas.
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Looming Loss
By Stephen Hall
Located in New York, NY
Conceptual and powerful commentary on the oil industry harming our waters and creatures of the sea. Featuring a whale and a bird and can of oil. Acrylic on canvas.
About the artis...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Miracle : mixed media collage
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary collage by Stacy Bergener.
In Bergner's own words, she approaches her work as taking something close to chaotic and creating order from it almost like putting together ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Canvas, Board
Up on Blocks Commission
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
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