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.
Style: Contemporary
Color: Green
Korean Contemporary Art by Shin Seung-Hun -Fantasy Jejuisland, Island Girl Story
Located in Paris, IDF
Shin Seung-Hun is a South-Korean artist born in 1979 who lives & works in Jeju Island, Korea. He is considered by critics as the new Korean Takashi Murakami.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
VHF Iceland
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
Irrational behavior, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Irrational behavior, oil on canvas 5/6ft :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Green Bunch Rustic Flowers Painting Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Teal
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Green Bunch Rustic Flowers Painting Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Teal
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction
Each limited ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
"Untitled, " Abstract Oil Pastel on a Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Untitled" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece upper right. This piece features a variety of abstract marks and line...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Found Objects
Watercolor 7
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: watercolor on Arches paper
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Marriage - Original Lithograph by Adam Moussa - 1980
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 29 x 21.7 cm.
Marriage is a beautiful color lithograph on paper, realized around the 80s by the artist Moussa Abdayem.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin a...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pretty Boy
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print
Signed and numbered, verso
16 x 24 inches
(Edition of 10)
20 x 30 inches
(Edition of 7)
30 x 45 inches
(Edition of 3)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
While working as a Guggenheim fellow to document Vietnamese war amputees in 2012, Pipo Nguyen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mer Rouge Aqaba, Jordanie
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Through photography, Michel Piquette creates captures of time, animated by a paradoxical quest for an image preceding any technique. By weaving together aspects of geometry and abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
Green Painting Art Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Good Dreams
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Green Painting Art Hand Textured Giclee on Canvas 45x45" Good Dreams
State-of-the-art HAND EMBELLISHED ∽ MUSEUM QUALITY ∽ DISPLAY READY Giclee Reproduction
Each limited edition G...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
String, Cloth, and Kite 05- abstract green photograph landscape
Located in New York, NY
The series 'Trespassing' explores encounters between human and nature. Human-made objects are placed into a landscape, where their interactions with the natural elements are recorded...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Lincoln 1860, acrylic, resin, and sumi ink on canvas over panel, 36 x 24 inches.
Located in New York, NY
Jongwang Lee's paintings challenge a dormant potential he believes lives within all humans. Inspired by Buddhist philosophies of space, Korean ideas of communication with the soul, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Sumi Ink, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Aqua White Flower Bright Painting Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas 60W x 40H
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Aqua White Flower Bright Painting Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas 60W x 40H
Collector's Edition Embellished Art Canvas Giclee With Brushstrokes and rich ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Digital, Inkjet, Giclée
Frenched
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print (Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on label, verso
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Frances F. Denny'...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lands End 2004 No. 9 / watercolor, beautifully framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious electric green Land's end watercolor from William Stanisich, whose provocative Land’s End series was painted over a 40-year span with a force and directness that reflects th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Salsa Steps, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
My paintings are fueled by my love of abstraction. The practice of making them involve appropriating from many schools of art and diverse art movements from the early 1900s to the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Wave (Emerald Green)" Contemporary Mixed Media Rice Paper Painting on Panel
By Lee Ok-nam
Located in New York, NY
A truly immaculate work done with Korean Rice Paper to create a wave-like pattern. Artist Lee Ok-nam folds Korean rice paper and meticulously forms intrica...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Rice Paper
Conductor
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This composition is informed by meditation or contemplative practice, applied to studio practice. The first layer of linework is drawn freehand, improvising energy lines to create a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Polyester, Wax, Oil, Alkyd, Panel
NEAR WILD HEAVEN
Located in Tulsa, OK
Near Wild Heaven by artist Douglas Witmer is a grey and green contemporary minimalist abstract painting made of black gesso on canvas that measures 30 x 22 and is priced at $3,500.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
organics 2, Mixed Media on MDF Panel
By Phil Stein
Located in Yardley, PA
ink jet & plexi collage :: Mixed Media :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Hatton Garden Snooker Club, London, UK
By Neal Slavin
Located in New York, NY
24 x 19.25 inch digital chromogenic print
Edition 15 + 3 AP
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided
Neal Slavin, a native New Yorker, began photographing gro...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
"Vase of Flowers Green" After Jan Davidsz. de Heem Tulips photograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Claire Clarkson's "Vase of Flowers Green" After Jan Davidsz. de Heem is from a series of photographs exploring the replication of the cyanotype photographi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
"boat in quiet sea " oil cm. 50 x 40 2016
Located in Torino, IT
Boat,sea,green
Birgitte LYKKE MADSEN (Odense, Denmark, 1960)
1981-86, Educated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Odense
First solo exhibition in 1983
Artist statement:
“I am a painter. I am fascinated by the difference in cold and warm colors and the different atmospheres that it creates in our mind. My hereby presented oil paintings are describing people in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
In The Green
Located in Berkeley, CA
Chris Brown
In The Green
Color soapground and spitbite aquatints with softground.
Edition of 20
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching
Green Field, Busch Road, Whitman County
Located in New York, NY
C-print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
(Edition of 10)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
About the artist:
Christopher Harris’s devastati...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Human Hand, Acrylic in Green & Black, Young Santiniketan Artist Bilasendu Sil
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Bilasendu Sil - Untitled - 15 x 11 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Paper
( ALL IN DOOR DELIVERED FRAMED )
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Past the decisive Moment (triptych) digital C-Print based on 3 SX-70 Polaroids
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Past the decisive Moment - Stranger than Paradise (triptych) - 2006
3x20x20cm, 20x70cm installed.
Sold out Edition of 5, this is Artist Proof 2/2.
3...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Minimalist Color Field Painting in Dark and Lime Green (C16-2)
By Ginny Fox
Located in Hudson, NY
Acrylic on 3 wood panels
Each panel measures 6 x 24 x 2 inches
Suggested installation is 1-2 inches between panels, which can be oriented in any direction
Overall measurement for pic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Automatic (green, red, orange)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (pthalo green and beige)
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Mountain Paradise
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I wanted to capture the feeling you get when you look out onto a breathtaking view. That moment when everything is bursting with life and vibrancy and you feel connected to the Earth. I also enjoy the reflection of the mountain which makes a mirror image. I have updated the landscape idea a bit with some metallic silver and gold drawing overlapping the acrylic paint. I have also used a few collaged photos of flowers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
On the Threshold
By David Row
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An oil and alkyd on canvas depicted in abstracted geometric shapes of glossy black, yellow green and yellow red by David Row. Signed verso, "#400, 1996, Oil/Alkyd/Canvas, an arrow up...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Alkyd, Canvas, Oil
"Motel Bel-Air" Type C Metallic Print
By Jen Zahigian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Frida by Denise Cummings, Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Naples, FL
Denise Cummings is an abstract collage artist currently working out of New York City. Her work comes from a passion for botanicals and organic forms. After obtaining professional hor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Green Apartments
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
South Miami is probably the best example of Art Deco in the country. Of course there's the great hotels along the waterfront, but behind those there are humbl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
New Suburbia, Hayward (Weed Wacker), from New Suburbia
By Bill Owens
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 5
Signed, titled, and numbered in black ink on print verso.
Series: New Suburbia
Bill Owens was born and raised in California. After volunteering in the Peace Corps he pi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Picknicky
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Demise The subject is the conflation of woman and home. The woman is camouflaged among her domestic objects, activities, and obsessions. The still-life narratives co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Tamalpais Motel" Type C Metallic Photo Print
By Jen Zahigian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jen's love of photography began as a child, when her grandfather, a photographer, gave her a camera. However, it wasn't until she graduated from UC Berkeley that photography became a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Tante Tilly
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her chi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Fantasia per violino
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 200 ex.
Signed by the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Adami is the maestro of the unadulterated line,” writes the Swedish poet Lasse Söderberg i...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
"Expedition 1", expressionist, whimsical, green, oil painting
By Anita Loomis
Located in Natick, MA
The paintings, "Expedition 1" and "Expedition 2" by artist Anita Loomis were conceived as expressionistic interpretations of the hopeful aspirations of people traveling to a new part...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Like Ice in the Sunshine No. 08
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print, framed to 34.5 x 34.5 inches
Signed, titled, dated and editioned on label verso.
In the latest series by Simone Rosenbauer, entitled Like Ice in the Sunshine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"English Meadow- Adlington, U.K."
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dragonfly Pond
Located in Lyons, CO
Color woodcut with pochoir, Edition 30
In all of Morinoue's work there is a compelling sense of place--the ocean shoreline, lava flows and Japanese gardens. He is a patient observ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Woodcut
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mountain View, CA, 1992
Located in New York, NY
16x20”
Premiere Archival Print
Limited Edition
Next available edition printed upon purchase. Other sizes available. Please allow 4 weeks for production.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Party, Dan McDermott, Original art, Figurative Painting, Oil on Linen
Located in Deddington, GB
Dan McDermott' painting 'Party' is an original oil painting on linen.
This artwork is sold unframed, measuring at Size : H 50 cm x W 70 cm x D 3 cm.
Dan McDermott’s dynamic painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Cloth, string and Kite #5- Large abstract landscape green water landscape photo
Located in New York, NY
The photographic series called 'Trespassing' explores encounters between human and nature. Human-made objects are placed into a landscape, shot with a long exposure in order to recor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Splinters, Lumens
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
2017
Acrylic, enamel, pencil, paint pen and collage on panel
20” x 48”
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel
Spiegel
By Antje Dorn
Located in Kansas City, MO
Mixed media
Year: 2009
Signed and dated by hand
Size: 23.0 × 16.4 on 28.3 × 20.3 inches
COA provided
Solo exhibitions (selection)
(K)=catalogue (B)=artist book
1992 GO -TO, WMF-Haus/Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin
1995 ÖL,ÖL,ÖL, Croxhapox, Gent, Belgium
1995 COOKIE PARK, Wiens Laden, Berlin (B)
1997 QUIT, Museumsakademie, Berlin (B)
1998 HEAVEN HAS HOLES, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 QUALITY STREET, Eine Vitrine, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (B)
1999 HEAVEN HAS HOLES, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
1999 0,0 TOTAL, Museum Folkwang, Essen (B)
2000 0,0 TOTAL, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
2001 DOSENZIMMER/BERNSTEINZIMMER (room of cans / room of amber), mit Friederike Feldmann, Galerie Station, Mousonturm, Frankfurt a. M.
2002 MOTORGIRLS, Kunstbank, Berlin
2003 MOTORGIRLS, Galerie Thomas...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Jeremy Scott (Smiley Face)" - Abstract Fashion Photography - Winogrand
Located in Atlanta, GA
Landon Nordeman is inspired by the work of Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston.
Described by New York Magazine's The Cut as their "backstage photographer extraordinaire," Nordeman...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
8
Located in New York, NY
This aerial photograph was taken by Klaus Leidorf from an airplane (which he also flies). It was not staged or manipulated and can be custom size.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fraternal Obsidian
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Graphite, Linen, Oil, Panel
Plant Leaf Detail, Color Nature Photography by Geoffrey Baris, Close-up, Green
Located in New York, NY
Plant Leaf Detail, Color Nature Photography by Geoffrey Baris
Archival pigment print on museum fine art paper
Edition of 7
Includes certificate of authenticity. Signed and numbered by artist.
Custom sized print available upon request.
Framing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
"Up North Wisconsin Series--Cows in Green Acres, " Mixed Media by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Up North Wisconsin Series--Cows in Green Acres" is an original watercolor, ink, and rubber stamp artwork. The artist signed and dated the piece in the low...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Art Visions #2
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Among others, she has had solo exhibitions in Dallas at The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
The Bird's Nest
By Cig Harvey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
GARDENING AT NIGHT is Cig Harvey’s latest body of work, and explores notions of time, family, nature and home. While Harvey’s previous work, You Look at Me Like an Emergency, focused on defining Home, GARDENING AT NIGHT celebrates the growth and discovery of building a life once you’ve arrived.
Far from literal and linear, Harvey crafts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Red corner - landscape color photography
Located in New York, NY
This aerial photography by Klaus Leidorf was not manipulated or staged and it can also be custom size.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Linked (green and black)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Anastasia Pelias was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary art for sale on 1stDibs.
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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