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: Purple
Phalluses
Located in New York, NY
Vuk Vučković was born in 1986 in Pančevo, Serbia. He graduated 2010 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he started his doctoral studies in painting. Vuk has been an inde...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas
Amanda Horvath, Midnight Silver, Original Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Amanda Horvath
Midnight Silver
Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Acrylics on canvas
Image size: 41cmx41cmx3.5cms
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WILL THIS POISON MY EYES? - Portrait Painting w/ Smooth Gradients
By Jason Stout
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Commentary portraiture and the vacuous shell that currently holds the human condition and the relationship between internal spirit and external exhaustion.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Purple and violet exotic flower, by Italian fine watercolourist
Located in Milan, IT
Petrea subserrata
Watercolour cm72.5 x 100.5. Contemporary Art
Botanical watercolourist. Born in Bergamo in 1974. She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1997...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor
High Hat Motel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Born and raised in Houston, KRISTIN MOORE began attending art classes at the Glassell School at a young age. She moved to Austin in 2009 to obtain her BA in Art from St. Edward’s University. Soon after graduating, Moore moved to Los Angeles to pursue her MFA at Otis College of Art + Design. Moore’s first solo exhibition, Rear Window, was unveiled during the culmination of her participation in the MFA program in 2016.
Upon moving back to Texas, Moore continued to explore contemporary landscapes through painting. The juxtaposed architecture of LA, the smoggy atmosphere, and unique characteristics of the city became source material for her work. Upon moving back to Texas in 2016, Moore viewed Austin through the same lens; the architecture is quickly changing, a new atmosphere is emerging, and the skyline is directly reflecting those elements. Oscillating between these two bustling cities of Austin & LA, lies the open space and peaceful landscape of Marfa. Texas. Often a favorite pit stop during the long road trips back and forth from Texas to California, Marfa holds space as a source of continued inspiration for Moore.
Her Texas roots and California influence have culminated into her current body of work. Often inspired by Ed Ruscha’s work Every Building on the Sunset Strip and A Few Palm Trees, Moore sources the images that influence her paintings from her many car rides, walks, and hikes up to overlooks. A homage to Hollywood, Moore also finds visual influence for her work in the world of film; particularly from visionaries such as Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as Turbulent Landscapes at Modified Arts in Phoenix, AZ, Excavations; Shindig at Mantle Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Night Bridge II - Colour Rich Urban Landscape, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Claire's work is inspired by light and colour on the landscape, and the abstract qualities they create. Her work places the viewer in a dreamlike landscape of pure light, texture and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Italian Contemporary Art by Marco Santaniello - Hoc Chi Minh Dinner
Located in Paris, IDF
Ed. 1/1
Marco Santaniello is an Italian artist born in 1981 who lives & works in Cosenza, Calabria in Italy. He started his path doing Pop Portraits and in front of his “rainbow wal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Digital
Abstract Painting Mixed Medium on Canvas 48x48" Rhythm of the violinist
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
One of a kind Mixed Medium on Canvas
Artwork: Original abstract mixed media work on canvas, which combines new media - digital original hand painting, printed on canvas, then hand p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Kangol
By TF Dutchman
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Kangol", is a unique stained glass shadowbox handmade by TF Dutchman, contains an acrylic and paint marker painting on canvas set in a stained glass box...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Statue of Liberty
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Pink Vogue - Marilyn Monroe" Colorful Contemporary Mixed Media Portrait Collage
By Jim Hudek
Located in Houston, TX
Pink, orange, and blue toned pop art mixed media collage by Houston, Texas artist Jim Hudek. Digital print of Marilyn Monroe in black and white with Ben-Day dots against a background...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Figurative Art - 'Nude Woman' - Contemporary Painting - Oil on canvas
Located in Carmel, CA
Abstract Figurative Art - 'Nude Woman' - oil on canvas painting by Frida
The artist mentioned that the painting can be hung horizontally or vertically.
The painting comes with a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mary Scott, Love Letters to Cornwall (I), Original Painting, Affordable Art
By Mary Scott
Located in Deddington, GB
Love Letters to Cornwall (I) [2021]
Original
Landscapes and seascapes
Acrylic and oil on wood panel
Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm
Framed Size: H:44 cm x W:44 cm x D:3cm
Sold Framed
P...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
CANVAS 121, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
original acrylic painting on the canvas inspired by African and contemporary art directions. Inspired by music I listen when I paint, usualy fresh italian music...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Commanding Warriorcat : Blu Eternal Vigil
By Hiro Ando
Located in PARIS, FR
2006, edition of 20
resin fiberglass painted & varnished
39 2/5 × 47 1/5 × 23 3/5 in - 100 × 120 × 60 cm
The artwork is signed by the Artist , carved with edition number and date und...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin
Charmaine Chaudry, Rock Pool, Original Landscape Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rock Pool [2021]
Original
Landscape
Acrylic on Canvas
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:3.75cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Elongated Figure”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a original sculpted marble elongated figure by the artist Joseph L. Rotella. Signed on the bottom back of the sculpture as well as the underside of the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Marble
Blue And Orange Relaxing Nude 1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Original contemporary figurative painting on heavy textured paper, unframed. Colourful and textured painting in blue and orange acrylics layered with the palette knife. Part of a se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Confinat - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Versus Abstract, Oil Painting
By Tomàs Sunyol
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Tomàs Martínez Sunyol was born in Dieulefit (France) in 1964 and was surrounded by art from a young age. Both his father, Joaquim Martínez Lerma, and uncle, Álvaro Sunyol, were pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You #2 – Jung Lee, Neon, Text, Installation, Symbole, Nature
By Jung Lee
Located in Zurich, CH
Jung LEE (*1972, South Korea)
You #2, 2019
C-Type Print, Diasec
Sheet 185 x 148 cm (72 7/8 x 58 1/4 in.)
Frame 188,5 x 151,5 x 3,7 cm (74 1/4 x 59 5/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
Edition of 5, plus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
"The Water Garden in Deep Royal Blue" Acrylic Painting In the Style of Monet
Located in New York, NY
An abstract expressionist acrylic painting on canvas with wonderful color combinations of deep royal blue, yellow and effortless lines and shapes. Inspired by Claude Monet's Lilly Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Water life 2 - Contemporary Abstract, Acrylics, Bright colors, Vibrant
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANNA MASIUL-GOZDECKA
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. She studied painting at prof. Krzysztof Wachowiak`s atelier, photography under the guidance of prof. Rosław S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Indian Mother, MDF, Brass & Stone by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Naman Mahipal - Indian Mother
MDF, Brass & Stone, L 24 x B 15 x H 24 inches
* Delivery will take upto 20 days after placing the order.
Naman expresses h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stone, Brass
Janssen
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Building on a series of exhibitions titled Panorama of the Anthropocene which examined the ecological impact of human activity through an array of paintings, digital prints and video...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Abdala
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Building on a series of exhibitions titled Panorama of the Anthropocene which examined the ecological impact of human activity through an array of paintings, digital prints and video...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
NOMAD VIII (Film Rebate), New York - Conceptual Architectural Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'NOMAD VIII (Film Rebate)', New York. Richard Heeps has photographed the iconic Empire State building in the mist. The NOMAD sequence of photographs capture the art deco architecture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
NOMAD V (Film Rebate), New York - Conceptual Architectural Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'NOMAD V (Film Rebate)', New York. Richard Heeps has photographed the iconic Empire State building in the mist. The NOMAD sequence of photographs capture the art deco architecture il...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Pegasus
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed in pencil on print margin.
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Inkjet
Plate No. 113 - Print, Landscape, Nature, Space, Astronomy
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Giclée print on Archival Matte Paper with Archival Pigment Ink.
Alternative print sizes available:
24 x 18" - £342
36 x 24" - £480
Based in New York, American illustrator and collagist Johanna...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Dream On
Located in New York, NY
Together Wonderful is a Brooklyn based artist collaboration using togetherness as a catapult towards creativity. Each work is constructed by merging imagery from our day to day lives...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
NOMAD IV (Film Rebate), New York - Conceptual Architectural Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'NOMAD IV (Film Rebate)', New York. Richard Heeps has photographed the iconic Empire State building in the mist. The NOMAD sequence of photographs capture the art deco architecture i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
Stawomir Mrozek - Vintage Poster - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Stawomir Mrozek - Poster is a vintage offset print realized in the 1970s.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions except for some cutaways on the margins.
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
CANVAS 125, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
acrylic painting on the canvas, inspired by African and contemporary art directions. Influenced also by fresh contemporary music which I listen when I create. Shipped stretched on bl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled - Screen Print by Lucio del Pezzo - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled
Colored screen print on paper, 32 x 32 cm
Signed and n° example lower center: Del Pezzo 74/100
Good conditions
Frame, glass
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
NOMAD V (Film Rebate), New York - Conceptual Architectural Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'NOMAD V (Film Rebate)', New York. Richard Heeps has photographed the iconic Empire State building in the mist. The NOMAD sequence of photographs capture the art deco architecture il...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
"Hong Kong Jour #78", photography by Didier Fournet (39x39'), 2020
Located in Paris, France
"Hong Kong Jour #33", photography by Didier Fournet.
Didier Fournet is a contemporary "painter" thanks to photography: he chose pixels instead of brushes and reveals the beauty of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color
Massimo Listri, Castello di Friedstein, Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha Germany 1999
Located in London, GB
C-Print mounted on aluminum and framed.
Edition of 5
Signed, numbered and titled on label.
Various sizes available.
120 x 100 cm (47,2'' x 39,3'' Inches) - € 12.500
150 x 120 cm (5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Helio - blue, silver, violet, yellow, gestural abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Bright white and radiating heat, and somehow contentedness, Helio shines like the sun on a blissfully hot summer afternoon. Teichert's painterly line, like the smooth, continuous, os...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Wax Crayon, Acrylic
Sophie Berger, Flying Fish, Contemporary Art, Original Abstract Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Flying Fish [2021]
Original
Landscape
Oil Paint on Canvas
Canvas Size: H:100 cm x W:100 cm x D:2.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a pi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brigitte
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Toronto artist Sophie DeFrancesca has always been fascinated by vintage fashion. Pictures of her mother wearing gorgeous frocks from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s served as a connection to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Brutalist Symphony II, London - Conceptual, architectural, color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Brutalist Symphony', photographed on London's Barbican Estate. There is a subtle beauty in the light and colour of this conceptual architectural photograph of the famous Brutalist l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
VOL-13B
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Nick Schleicher received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011, where he focused on painting and sculpture. His work ranges fro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Mixed Media on Woven Fabriano Painting "Crossing the Threshold"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This unique artwork is created through interweaving strips of painted fabriano paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The artwork is framed and floate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Dog Fight II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
'Paradise Remembered'. Botanical environmental tropical painting
Located in Penzance, GB
SOPHIA MILLIGAN
'Paradise, Remembered'
Original Artwork
___________________
Late August sun breaks joyously through the low morning cloud, an easterly breeze rustling through the st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Photogram
Dave Matthews Band, encore, Meo Arena, Lisbon, Portugal, 2015
By Rene Huemer
Located in New York, NY
Archival Print
Please allow extra production time.
Other sizes available.
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Dripping Dots - Gramercy Park" Colorful Gradient Abstract Oil Painting Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses gold leaf with thick textured oils and glass t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Mixed Media, Oil
Pisan. 1995, oil on canvas, 60x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Kaspars Zarins
Born in 1962
Professional training: Janis Rozentals Art School of Riga (1973 - 1980), Painting Department at the Latvian Academy of Arts (1980 - 1986) under the sup...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spray Can 27
By Ivan Butorac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
UltraChrome Epson Print on aluminum with plexiglass facemount
Edition of 12 plus 3AP
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass
“I Know You Know I Love Yew” Blue and Gold Decorative Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Blue decorative sculpture with gold accents by Houston, TX contemporary artist Jude Rosemond. Sculpture is made from concrete, clay, stone with rosewater...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stone, Concrete
"Souperman" Superman & Campbells Soup Blue Background Pop Art Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Superman juxtaposed with Campbells Tomato Soup. With impasto painting, thrown paint and quick brushwork we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Valerio Adami Poster Exhibition - Offset and Screen Print - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Valerio Adami Poster Exhibition is a mixed colored offset and screen print realized in 1972
This print was realized on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the artist and he...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen, Offset
Mooncatcher
Located in Deddington, GB
Mooncatcher by Rebecca Denton [2018]
limited_edition
Etching and aquatint
Edition number /40
Image size: H:20.5 cm x W:20.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
NOMAD IV (Film Rebate), New York - Conceptual Architectural Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
'NOMAD IV (Film Rebate)', New York. Richard Heeps has photographed the iconic Empire State building in the mist. The NOMAD sequence of photographs capture the art deco architecture i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
In G-Major
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gerdine Duijsens’ spirited and evocative figures are instantly recognizable and unforgettable. Through lush, bold colors and energetic marks, her paintings emit a sense of pleasure a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Expectant, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this painting, artist Kristen Brown paints an ethereal translucent shape of a pregnant woman standing at a window. "Overlapping nature imagery merges with th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Venice California Multi Palms
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pete Kasprzak’s passion for city life is expressed in his dynamic urban artworks. Kasprzak’s artworks express energy and life with animated brush strokes. He adds dynamic movement an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil
67 Shooting Back #GDN232 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Woman, Bondage, Japan, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan)
67 Shooting Back #GDN232, 2007
RP Direct print
60 x 50.8 cm (23 5/8 x 20 in.)
Print only
– Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color
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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