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.
Watch Series 1, Conceptual Color Etching by Les Levine
By Les Levine
Located in Long Island City, NY
Les Levine, Irish/American (1935 - ) - Watch Series 1, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Color Etching, Signed and Numbered in red pencil, Edition: 2/100, Image Size: 18 x 11.5 inches, S...
Etching
Highly conceptual mixed media wall sculpture Contemporary Cat charm rabbit foot
Located in Buffalo, NY
No Fear (Trapper Keeper) UV print on aluminum, chain, jewelry, keychain, sticker, Croc Jibbitz, rabbit’s foot, Tamagotchi 18x48” 2019 $975 Eternal Flame i...
Metal
City 36, Signed Abstract Screenprint by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 36 Year: 1968 Medium: Serigraph, signed and titled in pencil Edition: 300 Image Size: 25 x 20 inches Size: 30 x 22 in....
Screen
$2,350
"Untitled 4.21" Photography 35' x 24' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4.21" Photography 35' x 24' 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
City 84, Geometric Serigraph by Risaburo Kimura
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Risaburo Kimura, Japanese (1924 - ) Title: City 84 Year: 1968 Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil Edition: AP Size: 25 x 19 in. (63.5 x 48.26 cm)
Screen
The First $100, 000 I Ever Made
Located in New York, NY
It is hard to characterize John Baldessari’s varied practice—which includes photomontage, artist’s books, prints, paintings, film, performance, and installation—except through his ap...
Lithograph
Butterfly, Modern French Framed Photograph
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Landscape Medium: Photograph Country: France 16 X 22.5 without frame Animalia, Insect Butterfly Photograph Élisabe...
C Print, Color
Shapeshifter no22
Located in Vancouver, CA
Jennifer Latour Shapeshifter no22, 2025 Edition of 7. Signed in pencil by the artist. Archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, UV laminated, with cleat. Exclusive to ADDITION. Desc...
Archival Pigment
Source 3
By VIROCODE (Peter D'Auria and Andrea Mancuso)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original Inkjet prints, carbon and beeswax mounted to wood that was included in the artistic duo's exhibition at the world renowned Albright Knox Art Gallery. Virocode is compose...
Wood, Wax, Carbon Pencil, Inkjet
Iain Baxter& "Reaching Landscape" Conceptual Monoprint Painting
By Iain Baxter
Located in Surfside, FL
Landscape with Ranch Fence in bright vibrant colors. Iain Baxter& (the artist recently added the ampersand to his name) is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. ...
Mixed Media, Monoprint, Monotype
Night Species
Located in Vancouver, CA
Jennifer Latour Night Species, 2025 Edition of 7, 2 APs Exclusive to ADDITION Available Formats Lead time for all formats is approximately two to three weeks. All Dibond mounted ar...
Archival Pigment
Surrender Your Fantasies For Something Better
By Kevin Kegler
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original conceptual sculpture by Kevin Kegler. This work is currently featured in the artist's solo exhibition inside The Corridors Gallery at Hotel Henry.
Copper
$5,250
The Son
By Tina Barney
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Tina Barney is an American artist renowned for her photographs of friends and family in domestic, yet often highly-charged, settings. Her images evoke both the spontaneity of documen...
C Print
$2,674Sale Price|20% Off
Russian authorities. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Russian authorities. 2002, oil on canvas, acrylic, collage, 60x40 cm Igor Leontiev (1957) - one of the leading independent painters in Latvia Born in Riga, Latvia. Studied in the A...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
What's Old is New - Found Objects Abstract Sculpture
By Gwen Samuels
Located in Boston, MA
What's Old is New 18.0 x 20.0 x 4.0, 2.0 lbs Mixed Media Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "What’s Old is New is part of series called: Mind Springs that all started wit...
Mixed Media
Cosa Mentale (Abstract Photography)
Located in London, GB
Cosa Mentale (Abstract Photography) Archival Pigment Print on Ilford Smooth Pearl paper — Unframed. Edition 6 + 2 AP This work is part of the "Humanistic Reciprocity". This series...
Paper, Archival Pigment
Sculpture, abstract record player: 'Kristallo'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday ar...
Brass, Steel
Bob Seng, Exit 350, 2002, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Plastic
Bob Seng, Exit 326, 2000, scraped, collaged, EXIT signs, 8" x 12"
By Bob Seng
Located in Darien, CT
Robert Seng was born and raised in Seattle, served in the US Navy in Vietnam, and finished his BFA and MFA on the GI Bill. He was a founder of Artech, Seattle’s premier art services company, to support his art career. A New York resident since 1986, Seng has worked at Artforum, the Guggenheim Museum and taught at Fairfield University while continuing his studio practice in painting and sculpture. In the mid 1990’s Seng moved into site-specific installation work with collaborator Lisa Hein. Together they have made more than 40 projects with moving light...
Plastic
Vibrant Heritage - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
Fritz Horstman, Formwork for a Rectangle, 2015, Plywood, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
While working on a large building project several years ago the artist, Fritz Horstman was struck by the poetry in the unfinished state of the construction site. He was drawn specifically to the space between the plywood walls that were raised as formworks for the pouring of cement. That space could only exist for a few hours before the cement truck...
Wood, Plywood
$11,500
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_ASOG, 2010, Enamel, Latex, Ink, Graphite
Located in Darien, CT
Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound. This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting. Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...
Enamel
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Mixed Media
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Mujo Gold
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Cardboard, gold leaf, gilder’s bole This work was created for an exhibit as part of the artistic unit SHIKŌ, a collaborative effort between sculptors Kanji Hasegawa, Isaji Yugo, and...
Gold Leaf
$21,000
Shaman
By John Petrey
Located in Rye, NY
John Petrey’s Shaman is a striking mixed-media sculpture that merges mythology, ritual, and contemporary artistry. The figure wears a robe of richly patterned patchwork, assembled fr...
Ceramic, Leather, Fabric, Found Objects, Mixed Media
RIC: Random Internet Cat #4
Located in New York, NY
Random Internet Cats Robotically-fabricated drawings on paper, these series formally deal with mediation from screen image to ‘drawing’ while using a computer-controlled pen plotte...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Aguas Baldias (White), Conceptual Etching by Manuel Piña-Baldoquín
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aguas Baldias (White) by Manuel Piña-Baldoquín is a 1997 etching with chine collé and embossed letterpress that represents the culmination of the artist’s exploration of T.S. Eliot’s...
Etching
7000 Oak Trees - Original Vintage Photo by Buby Durini - 1984 ca.
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Roma, IT
7000 Querce (7000 Oaks) is an original b/w photograph representing the indoor of the Marino Gallery (in Mignanelli Square, Rome) where Joseph Beuys' exhibition was held in the Eighty...
Photographic Paper
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Lithograph
Quiet Matriarch - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
Studio Muse - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
Stallion Portrait: Slickly - Mane - Champion Horse's hair portrait print
Located in London, GB
Slickly was a world champion miler and leading French sire. Series: Studio Portraits, Slickly - 'Mane', 2009 by John Reardon Archival Pigment Print on Ha...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Col...
Abstraction About Subtle
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Abstraction About Subtle Royal blue with gold leaf on carved wood panel. Krzysztof (Chris) Sokolovski born in 1985 in Eisiskes in Lithuania. Visual artist creating neosacral art: pa...
Gold Leaf
Glimmer of Hope - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
Ascending Joy - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,960Sale Price|20% Off
Steadfast Gaze 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Girl
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
Triptych - Political debate, Conceptual Glazed Ceramic by Artur Balder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artur Balder, Spanish/American (1984 - ) - Triptych - Political debate [mostly peaceful], Year: 2022, Medium: Glazed Ceramic, Edition: 7/9, Size: 13 x 11.8 x 11.8 in. (33.02 x 29...
Ceramic
Christo, Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings (Monuments) - Signed Print
By Christo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo (American-Bulgarian, b. 1935) Lower Manhattan Packed Buildings (2 Broadway and 20 Exchange Place, from Monuments), 1968 Medium: Offset and screen print on Bristol board Dimen...
Offset, Screen
$1,200
Large Contemporary Annette Lemieux Photo Etching Aquatint Censor Abstract Print
Located in Surfside, FL
Annette Lemieux (American, 1957-) Date: 1994 Medium: photogravure, aquatint (photo etching) and stencil Hand signed and dated lower right. Editioned lower left. Dimensions: Sheet: 22...
Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure
Untitled, Mixed Media Oil Painting Figures Contemporary Female Artist
By Mil Lubroth
Located in Surfside, FL
This Contemporary female artist overlays stenciled figures using vibrant colors. Some of the figures are rendered with detail while others are left in abstraction. Mil Lubroth (1926...
Mixed Media, Oil
The Language of Birds, Conceptual Etching with Aquatint by Mel Chin
By Mel Chin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Mel Chin, American (1951- )
Title: The Language of Birds
Year: 1996
Medium: Etching with Aquatint and Lithograph on black German Etching paper, signed, titled,...
Etching
The Long Room V, Trinity College Library, Dublin Ireland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the The Long Room, an awe-inspiring vista into the Old Library at Trinity College in Dublin, Irelan...
C Print, Lambda
Reinhard Görner, Schussenried Abbey Library, Germany
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Schussenried Abbey Library Germany 50" x 59.9" Edition of 10 $6,000 60" x 71.9" Edition of 7 $9,000 70" x 83.8" Edition of 5 $11,000...
Lambda
$2,350
"Untitled 1.14" Photography 24' x 35' inch Edition of 10 by García De Marina
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 1.14" 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
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 678
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Lego, plastic model, gold leaf, noodle, resin, paper, wood Central piece: W95 × D95 × H195 mm Side pieces: W80 × D85 × H77 mm This collaborative work, which began with a common interest in Buddhism, explored the idea of expressing the sacred within everyday life. As artist and Zen monk...
Gold Leaf
Isaac Newton, Cambridge, England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large-scale interior architectural photograph by German artist Reinhard Görner depicts the bust of Sir Isaac Newton in the Trinity College librar...
C Print, Lambda
Cool Ducks
By Jim Molloy
Located in New York, NY
2 cool ducks floating. Fun. About the Artist: Jim Molloy is a studio and plein air painter. "I like to try to find and capture the beauty and simplicity of the world around u...
Canvas, Oil
Bapst Library, Boston
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bapst Library Boston 50 x 62.4 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 74.9 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.4 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Paper is trimmed to...
C Print, Lambda
Melancholy - Yuutsuna
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Yoshikuni Iida, Japanese (1923 - 2006) Title: Melancholy - Yuutsuna Year: 1973 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 39.5 x 79 in. (100.33 x 200.66 cm)
Acrylic
$5,000
Tree Diva
By Kat O'Neill
Located in New York, NY
Photograph of aged tree that is then brought to life through some acrylic touches. Photograph produced by Dye Sublimation - which means archival inks infused into aluminum. Abou...
Metal
"Why Are We So Cruel" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication. This series "Word on ...
Metal
Japanese Contemporary Art by Kojun - Kensho 2249
By Kojun
Located in Paris, IDF
Inkjet print of digtial photgraph on Kakejikuya kozo washi with origami backing paper Kojun is an self-taught multimédia American artist born in 1977 based in Tokyo, Japan since 199...
Paper, Mixed Media, Inkjet
$7,913
Chris Levine - EQUANIMITY_2022 20 Limited Queen Elizabeth II Photography Modern
By Chris Levine
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Chris Levine EQUANIMITY_2022 20 Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Screenprint on Somerset Satin paper Edition number: 3/5 Size: 47 x 38 cm Condition: New in mint conditions, never frame...
Satin Paper, Screen
Well Before….the Trusty S.C.O.R.E.* Crows
By Michael Beam
Located in Buffalo, NY
Peenemunde 1943—During World War II, German rocketeers developed Vergeltungswaffen or "V" weapons at the German rocket facility Peenemunde, built in 1937. The first civilian employee...
Canvas, Found Objects, Mixed Media, Oil
$7,000
Silver gelatin print from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, stamped on verso
Located in New York, NY
Untitled portrait from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print, artist print. This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic port...
Silver Gelatin
Far Rockaway Seascape, Conceptual Oil Painting by Vladimir German
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vladimir German, Russian/American (1940 - ) Title: Far Rockaway Seascape Year: 1988 - 89 Medium: Oil on Paper mounted on Board, signed verso Size: 18.5 in. x 26.25 in. (46.99...
Oil
$7,913
Chris Levine - EQUANIMITY_2022 70 Limited Queen Elizabeth II Photography Modern
By Chris Levine
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Chris Levine - EQUANIMITY_2022 70 Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Screenprint on Somerset Satin paper Edition number: 2/5 Size: 47 x 38 cm Condition: New in mint conditions, never fra...
Satin Paper, Screen
Abstract wood Sculpture: "Fortress'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday ar...
Wood, Paint
Mixed Media Planet with Roots: 'Fons et origo #3' (Source & Origin)
Located in New York, NY
Fons et origo, which in Latin means Source and Origin, includes 8 wall-sculptures. These circular shapes sprout long roots in delicate hand-cut formations. Some of the roots have tin...
Metal, Wire