Contemporary Art
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
Find a collection of Contemporary prints, photography, paintings, sculptures and other art on 1stDibs.
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Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013 - Animal Portrait Photography
By Brad Wilson
Located in Paris, FR
'Rhinoceros #2, Albuquerque, NM, 2013' is a limited-edition fine art photograph by American photographer Brad Wilson. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Paper, 2013...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pommier fleuri dans un ciel bleu
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
Louis Danicher vous présente ses peintures inspirées de la végétation des bords de chemins, une nature si proche de nous et si changeante avec les saisons.
Elle est intime, fragile, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Sin título (Ceiba y semillas)
By Jan Hendrix
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
Pieza realizada por Jan Hendrix y Javier Hinojosa.
La fotografía ese de J, Hinojosa; la serigrafía de J. Hendrix
Pieza perteneciente a la carpeta Respeto y Tolerancia.
Impresión digi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Pulpit in Room Limited edition fine art print signed by the artist
Located in BORDEAUX, FR
Born in 1990 in Cartagena, Jose Sierra Vega is a prodigious young Colombian photographer. Employing photography as an instrument to explore the human ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cape Cross - Studio Portrait, Stallion, Champion, Equine Art Print Unframed
Located in London, GB
Cape Cross (13 March 1994 – 21 April 2017) was an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse. He is a son of the July Cup winner Green Desert and Cheveley Park Stakes, winner Park Appeal who ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Bla...
"Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on Their Roof in NYC" framed photo
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie on Their Roof in NYC 11/28/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text to the right of the photo...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Festive Day
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
"Festive Day" is by an up and coming Romanian painter named Stefan Mocanu. He finds the incredible in the everyday and transforms it into a pictorial joy. His use of thick paint ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Gaze
Located in Oslo, 03
Edition 3
Six-color silkscreen print, custom engraved frame
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" photo by Allan Tannenbaum
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"The Cure Gets Caught on Columbus Ave., NYC 4/11/80" black and white photograph by Allan Tannenbaum. Image size: 9 x 13 inches. The text reads: "The Cure New York City 1980. In 1978, the Sussex ensemble led by Robert Smith changed its name from Easy Cure to the name that would follow them into the pages of music history - the Cure. Their debut album, 'Three Imaginary Boys...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
PROJECTED SPECIMEN – DEER
Located in Seoul, KR
About PROJECTED SPECIMEN Series
… in Projected Specimen series (2014), Han positions multiple screens placed around the exhibition space showing the shadows of a dog, rabbit, deer, e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
L'origine de la civilisation (the origin of civilization)
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. This work shows a dreamy scenery. Looking from a distance, it seems like a huge coral reef in deep sea, and there are some shiny jellyfishes around it. Taking a closer look, we can see some more meaningful signs, like Oracle bones, and some animals on the coral reef. At the same time, there is also a woman with traditional Chinese clothes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil, Acrylic
GREG LOTUS - Wagon Wheel
By Greg Lotus
Located in PARIS, FR
The female nude becomes a canvas on which to paint with shadows and light. The curvature of the woman’s body is accentuated by the spiralling circular forms cast over her body. The f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Trinetra VI
Located in Singapore, SG
Trinetra VI in her blood-coral form, dives down to the bottom of the ocean to push back the putrid oil spills, the reeking sludge and the rotten waste generated by petrification and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Rick Savage Def Leppard" guitar photo by Lisa S. Johnson from Hard Rock Hotel
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Original photo of a Rick Savage Def Leppard guitar taken by Lisa S. Johnson for her book, "108 Rock Star Guitars." "Rick Savage Def Lepard" printed on lower left front margin. "Photo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Blossom Moon Jar Drawing 12
Located in Seoul, KR
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Cut-outs on black paper/ Collage work for Blossom Moon Jars Series.
About Moon Jars
The characteristic of the method of making moon jars is the technique of making...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper
"Dove Diptych" Black and White Diptych Painting, Watercolor on Board, Framed
Located in New York, NY
Annika Connor is a modern-day Renaissance woman. Primarily known as a Contemporary Romantic painter, her work uses strong symbolism and passionate imagery to ignite the imagination. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paint, Board
The Story of a Forest - IV
Located in Stamford, CT
"The story of a Forest" presents a biographical account of a forest in a series of six charcoal drawings.
The story moves from the lush green forest in the first drawing to the dark ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
#114, 1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Rare Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
CLARA
Located in Miami, FL
Roby Dwi Antono
CLARA, 2022
Individually signed and numbered by the artist
25-layer silkscreen with curable UV inks, printed on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper.
19.7 x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Butterfly - Contemporary art, Portrait, Figurative
Located in Coquitlam, BC
Artist: Liang Li
Born in 1985 Henan China, and currently living in Beijing
In 2003, he joined the Basic Department of CAFA Modeling
In 2004, he joined the Second Studio of Oil Painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps - Landscape - Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
"Forest at the bottom of the Slagheaps", Walbrzych, Silesia, Poland, 1978
Silver Gelatin Print, Signed and dated in pencil on verso
Printed in 2008 by the Photographer, hand printed darkroom print.
17 3/10 × 12 1/5 in
44 × 31 cm
50 x 37 cm paper size with white border , 44 x 31 cm (image size)
"My fascination started when I first saw industrial centres of Upper and Lower Silesia,’ says Cała. ‘The landscape was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. It did not change for the whole period from the 19th century to the end of communism in Poland." - Michal Cala
Exhibition frame as seen on additional picture available upon request - please contact gallery for further details or purchase unframed print with a free shipping worldwide.
About the Artist:
"Cala become relatively well known in Poland but he is still little known in the West, despite the fact that his work bears comparison with masters such as Bill Brandt and Robert Frank."
- Bill Kouwenhoven, British Journal of Photography, 2007
Michal Cala was born in Toruń, Poland in 1948 and studied aircraft construction in Warsaw at the University of Technology in the early 1970's. From 1974 to 1983 he worked as an engineer in various companies in Silesia, and began photographing in the area. In 1977, he moved to Tychy in Upper Silesia, where he co-founded the photographers' association KRON and become a member of the ZPAF - the Union of Polish Art Photographers.
Relatively unknown outside of his native country, his work is in several museum collections in Poland; in the Silesian Museum of Katowice, the Silesian Library in Katowice, the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze as well as local government building in Duisburg in the Ruhr (Germany) and MAST Foundation (Bologna) and various international private collections. His work has received much acclaim and won numerus awards; among which are the Grand Prix at the Polish Landscape...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Steve Miller 'Gretsch Guitar'" photograph by Lisa S. Johnson from Hard Rock
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Steve Miller 'Gretsch Guitar'" framed color photograph by Lisa S. Preston taken for her book "108 Rock Star Guitars." "Photo by Lisa S. Johnson" printed on front lower right corner....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Memories of Future Fires, Study 4
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Plant-derived fibers, petrochemical-derived dyes and monofilament, mounted on archival paper, wood frame
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Intertwined
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Interwoven lampas jaquard weaving with tencel, linen, and silk
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Dark Flora #8, Skeletons of the Summer,
Located in London, GB
Even in deep mid winter there still stands, in sheltered places, the bleached skeletal remains of the summer past - delicate and intricate memories of the verdant life that just months before stood lush and green.
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Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Eye Fly
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline Multicolored Butterflies, Black Guardians. Multicolored
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Kissing Horses-Edition of 18
By Bob Tabor
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful shot of brown horses against black background. Diasec. Face mounted on acrylic.
About the Artist:
Known for his large format prints of equestrian portraits - commissi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Headdress" / X-Ray Print Native American / Photography
By Nick Veasey
Located in Greenwich, CT
Headdress
47 x 47 inches
X-Ray C-Type print with Diasec frame
Limited Edition 4 of 9
Acquired from artist's studio, signed recto
Available in a smaller size 23 X 23 inches
X-Ray print of Native American headdress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Garage
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
June 2001, J.T.
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Xiaoze Xie. "June 2001, J.T." is a contemporary painting, oil on canvas by Chinese photorealist Xiaoze Xie. The artwork is signed on the verso, "June 2001 Xie Xiaoze...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Teatro Cervantes, Tanger, Morocco
Located in AMSTERDAM, NH
Limited Edition
Material: Chromogenic Print mounted on dibond and framed with art glass
Since 2002, photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have been united by their shared pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Bathers
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Escorpión - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Complete title: Escorpión Negro
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Russian Drone Painting No. 6 (Ferris Wheel at Pripyat, 2016)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
William Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Patrick Hughes - Hanging on a hook, rainbow, gloss, moon, contemporary, painting
Located in London, GB
Patrick Hughes (b.1939)
Hanging on a Hook
1978
gloss paint on board
91 x 91 cm
Price:
£19,000 GBP
Provenance:
Private collection, UK (acquired directly from the artist in the late ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Board
Megalopolis Lights - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Metropolitan II
Located in PARIS, FR
It is certainly the most appropriate translation of Pascale Hémery’s work, which takes a look at the places visited on a daily basis and during her travels abroad. This look is the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Linocut
Headdress/ X-Ray Print / Photography / Radiographic Imaging / Edition of 9
By Nick Veasey
Located in Greenwich, CT
Headdress
47x47 inches
X-Ray C-Type print with Diasec frame
Limited Edition 4 of 9
X-Ray print of a Native American feathered headdress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
"Purrpalala" Aboriginal Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Biddy Long Yulngarri
Located in London, GB
Biddy Long is a traditional woman bringing years of bush living and travelling to her painting. Her early life was with other Warlpiri on Mt Doreen cattle station when her family was...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Gemini" oil painting on panel figurative two women female red hair
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Gemini, 2020
oil on panel
17.5" x 12" unframed
21” x 15.5” framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that ble...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Seascape VII - large format photograph of cloud formations and reflecting sea
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of dramatic cloud formations and reflecting sea
SEASCAPE VII by Frank Schott
58 x 58 inches ( 147 x 147cm )
signed edition of 7
48 x 48 inches ( 12...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Giclée, Archival ...
"Dioscuri" oil painting figurative female portrait stockings
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Dioscuri, 2019
oil on Dibond
18" x 12" unframed
21.5 x 15.5" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Bleary" 35 MM Ilford black and white photograph by Sofia Malamute
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Bleary" 35MM Ilford black and white photograph by fine art and fashion photographer Sofia Malamute. Photograph of model Jamie Bochert shot for MAD Fall/Winter 2014. Image size 25 x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Twin Greek Temples (Night), After Dark in Central Park in New York City
Located in New york, NY
A contemporary black-and-white photograph by Roberta Fineberg who captures the San Remo building and New York City skyline after dark from the urban oasis Central Park.
Focusing on the beaux-arts building towers or twin Greek temples...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...
Stratosphere I - large format photograph of abstract liquid water cloudscapes
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photography of mesmerizing color compositions of liquid cloudscape painting in water, hypnotizing abstract liquidscapes from the bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Boombox
By Nick Veasey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nick Veasey
Boombox
47 x 47 inches
Edition 9
Digital C print
Diasec Framed
Signed and numbered
Also available in the following size
23 x 23 inches / Edition 25
Nick Veasey X ray Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
No. 13
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Piccillo is a skilled draftsman, and his nuanced use of shadow and scale highlight this ability. Joseph Piccillo’s signature graphite and charcoal drawings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Chris Harris, Los Angeles, 21st Century, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography
By Greg Gorman
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 25
Also available in 76 x 101 cm / 30 x 40 inch, Edition 25
Black and white portrait of Chris Harris.
From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rome, Italy
Located in New York, NY
45 x 55.5 inch pure pigment print (framed size)
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on label verso
Edition 15 (includes all sizes)
Framed in a charcoal gray frame
Luca Campigotto us...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chanel Vertical, 1990
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print.
Edition 1 of 15.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through September 4th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after September 4th. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT: Since the early ‘90s, gallerist Robin Rice and designer Antony Todd...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Silver Gelatin
Reach Out and Touch Faith - Neon
By Chris Bracey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chris Bracey
Reach Out and Touch Faith
48 x 22 inches
Neon mounted on aluminum
Edition 3
Wall mounted
Neon Artwork
Reach out and touch faith
Depeche Mode
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Aluminum
Censored II
Located in Boca Raton, FL
48 x 48 inch framed + $2,000
New York-based, Armenian-born artist, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, is especially interested in how people interact in this new era of technology and social media. His “Mirrors” series suggest a close examination of self, and yet hands held to the face shield...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Colour print of Anthurium flower in red green and yellow
Located in London, GB
“Nature creates nothing without the purpose” - Aristotele
Anthurium - flower study, originally taken on medium format Fujichrome transparency colour film in the studio setting, in 1...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
23042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Martí Bofarull’s work fits in with renovation of the urban landscape that has characterized Catalan painting of the last twenty years. Among our artists who have remained loyal to f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Jasmine and Clove" oil painting woman female portrait black dress
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Jasmine and Clove, 2017
oil on Dibond
10” x 8” unframed
13.5" x 11.75" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Storm, Portugal 1999 /Gelatin Silver Print/ Signed
Located in Coimbra, PT
Street Photography /1999. Portugal / Analog camera photo / B&W 35 mm film. 400 iso / Gelatin Silver Print,
Signed, titled, negative date & print date on verso.
Ana Maria is visual artist. She had a formal education in Fine Arts. Since 2000 she also is interested in photography and she started by doing theater photography...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Caïn and Abel II
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES
(Born in 1966, France)
Caïn and Abel II
Painting on wood
120 cm x 90 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint
TRIMMED TREES - Contemporary Landscape / Realism / Nature Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Landscape painting by New Jersey artist Anita Mazzucca.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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 Stefanie Schneider, Tyler Shields, Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde, and Richard Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary art, so small editions measuring 0.02 inches across are also available.
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