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: Red
No Charges - American Flag Painting over Vintage Newsprint Photo Collage
By Patrick Burns
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Burns
No Charges
original newsprint, acrylic, polymer, resin on panel
32h x 48w in
81.28h x 121.92w cm
PB0004
Patrick Burns
b. 1987, Cleveland, OH
Bio
I like to explore t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel, Newsprint, Polymer
Red Polka Dot Dress, Goodwood Revival - Vintage Fashion Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
This stylish artwork, 'Red Polka Dot Dress' taken at the glamorous retro event Goodwood Revival, perfectly captures feminine sophistication with a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Manuela 2 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Harmony Couple on Red 1/50, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Two small figurines sit together as a couple, waiting in harmony, happiness, and love," says artist Yelitza Diaz. The Small Beings in this mixed media sculpt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
"Red Nude" Large abstract style brightly coloured nude figure framed oil
Located in ludlow, GB
"Red Nude" by Minos Zakarian, Armenian (Born 1955)
Oil on Canvas, Signed and Framed.
Minos Zakarian was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1955. He studied at Terl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Red Roses Pink Roses Romantic Bouquet of Flowers - Timeless Love by Robert Funk
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Hundreds of Red Roses, Pink Roses, and Yellow Roses in stacked blocks flank a 19th Century nude marble statue of a nude young girl. In a sense, the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Painter - Acrylic by A.M. Caboni - 2014
Located in Roma, IT
Painter is a unique mixed-media painting on cardboard (made of acrylic paint and newspapers) realized by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni in 2014.
On the lower right corner of t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Poppy
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Richard Lilley
Medium: Oil on canvas, 2022
Dimensions: 3 x 3 ft
This feature is from our recent gallery exhibition by artist Richard Lilley.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rock Face/Zion Canyon
By Susan Louise Shatter
Located in New York, NY
Susan Louise Shatter painted landscapes in both oil and watercolor, preferring the earth tones of volcanic canyons or rocky coastlines rather than the green pastoral settings more tr...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Breaking Changes - Painting by Adriano Bernetti da Vila - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Braking Changes is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Adriano Bernetti da Vila in 2021.
Hand-signed oil and acrylic on canvas 80 x 80 cm. The artwork is a considerat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Les Voiles. Limited Edition Photograph
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Les Voiles
H 35.5 in. x 27.5 in. W
Edition 6
Unframed.
Les Voiles Series
Uwe Ommer wanted to try a series that revealed less of the body using different wet ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Ikuko 2 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ikuko 1 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Untitled
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Wax Crayon, Paper
Ikuko 3 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ikuko 4 - Photograph By Roberto Vignoli - 2006
Located in Roma, IT
Light painting technique, realized in a completly dark photographic studio, where the photographer manually "paint" by torch with light of different colours, the subjects and the ba...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
The Power of NOW [Black, Red, Acrylic, canvas, Abstract, Line]
Located in Seoul, KR
Lynn Yang
Art Students League of New York
Fine Arts, Hanyang Woman's College, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition
2021 The Other Side, LYNN Fine Art Gallery, Seoul
2018 The Gallery next, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
![The Power of NOW [Black, Red, Acrylic, canvas, Abstract, Line]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/lynn-yang-paintings-the-power-of-now-black-red-acrylic-canvas-abstract-line-for-sale/a_15492/a_94602121642063235520/KakaoTalk_20220113_172924464_master.jpg?width=240 "Lynn Yang - The Power of NOW [Black, Red, Acrylic, canvas, Abstract, Line]")
Furniture, from The Papercut Portfolio
By Ai Weiwei
Located in London, GB
Papercut, 2019, signed by the artist in pencil recto, from the edition of 250 (there were also 24 artist’s proofs), published by Taschen, London, 60 x 60 cm. (23.6 x 23.6 in.)
Ai We...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Birth - Acrylic by A.M. Caboni - 2014
Located in Roma, IT
Birth is a lovely painting realized by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni in 2014. The artwork is an acrylic painting unframed.
The artwork is hand-signed and hand-dated "AMC 14" ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Primal Force - Painting by Adriano Bernetti da Vila - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Primal Force is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Adriano Bernetti da Vila in 2021.
Hand-signed oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm. The artwork is a representation of the pri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Dopaminum 6 - Large Format, Minimalistic Conceptual Oil Painting, Color Field
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
The Devil's in the details
By Mike Maxwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas
Georgian Contemporary Sculpture by Erekle Tsuladze - Red Bear
Located in Paris, IDF
Artificial stone & aluminium, red colour
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stone
City 4 - Acrylic by A.M. Caboni - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
City 4 is a fascinating acrylic painting on canvas realized by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni in 2016.
The artwork is hand-signed and hand-dated "AMC 16" by the artist in blac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
UP, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on canvas inspired by natural elements. My abstract paintings are all about creating excitement for the viewer through concentrated exploration. Each painting is inspired by natu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Volker Hildebrandt - "Connection Red/ Yellow" - giclée print - signed and dated
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Volker Hildebrandt - "Connection Red/ Yellow".
Giclée print on paper.
Hand signed and dated.
A beautiful artwork that looks good in every room and especially in the living room or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Once in a Vermillion
Located in Santa Fe, NM
acrylic, ink, mixed media on panel
In his current body of work, Tim uses large gestural drawings to create energetic abstractions. The layered process of his pieces creates a rich t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Spark - underwater photograph - from series REFLECTIONS - archival pigment print
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
“Spark” is a part of Alex Sher’s popular series REFLECTIONS - underwater photographs that could be almost mistaken for abstract paintings as they bring up recollections of masterpiec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Tape Collection, Ferric 60 (Tinted Red) - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Ferric 60 (Tinted Red), from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection.
The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal past...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
"LIPS - L8 GUCCI" Photography 50"D Edition 2/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Located in Culver City, CA
"LIPS - L8 GUCCI" Photography 50"D Edition 2/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Edition 2 OF 8
Year created 2017
Print size 50 Inches diameter Trim Bleed
Artwork finish size 50 Inches diameter
M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
"Perfect Empire #7", Classical Aphrodite Figurative Study on Red
Located in Soquel, CA
Contemporary figure study of classical Roman sculpture of Aphrodite of Menaphantos, depicted with expressive brushstrokes on a bold, deep red background, by UK-based Filipino artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Swimmingly Beautiful
By Chad Little
Located in Park City, UT
Capturing the unrehearsed compositions and offhand smiles between family and friends. A visual language that communicates more than the spoken word. Candid and sometimes intimate. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Crimson No 2 - large, bold, abstract shapes, marble dust, acrylic, wax on canvas
By Ivo Stoyanov
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Shapes of deep fuchsia move across passages of dove grey, moss green and black in this abstract composition by Ivo Stoyanov. Stoyanov's paintings have a fresco-like quality, the taut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - Totem
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
2020, red abstract painting
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
Acrylic
"Kate Moss Nr. 8" Photography 58 × 53 1/2 in Edition 1/1 by Kate Garner
By Kate Garner
Located in Culver City, CA
"Kate Moss Nr. 8" Photography 58 × 53 1/2 in Edition 1/1 by Kate Garner
Signed on the back.
High Quality Print on Hahnemuhle paper using archival ink with red full diamond dust bac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Glitter, Archival Paper, Stretcher Bars
One-of-a-kind "Carmine Red Bunny" blown glass bunny by artist Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Carmine Red Bunny" one-of-a-kind blown glass bunny rabbit by artist Hunt Slonem. Signed on back below tail.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Blown Glass
Whats Up II - Abstraction, Expression, Pop, Street Art, Energetic, Joyful
By Paweł Myszka
Located in Salzburg, AT
Paweł Myszka graduated from the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw. He holds a Master of Arts
degree in Graphic Design and Painting and graduated with hon...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ewelina Makosa - Leftovers - Original Painting
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Ewelina Makosa - Leftovers - Original Painting
Series: Leftovers
Dimensions: 186 x 135 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Ewelina Makosa was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1986. She has defended h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
REDS AND BLACKS, AUG 20, 2020
Located in Fairfield, CT
Silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and tar- like texture on Rising 4-ply Museum Board. Edition of 35.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Supreme Robotcat : Sanguine Cybernetic Maestro
By Hiro Ando
Located in PARIS, FR
2006, edition of 20
resin fiberglass painted & varnished
39 2/5 × 23 3/5 × 15 7/10 in - 100 × 60 × 40 cm
The artwork is signed by the Artist , carved with edition number and date und...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin
Cyclops - 21st Century, Painting, Pink, Orange
Located in Berlin, DE
Cyclops, 2011
acrylic on canvas
7 7/8 H x 7 7/8 W in.
20 H x 20 W cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait - Drawing by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Leo Guida in the 1970s.
Good condition.
Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Sensitive to current issues, artistic movements ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - Discorde
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
LSD : Digital Psychedelia or Navigating the Infinite Code
Located in PARIS, FR
2009, Unique Artwork
Oil on Canvas
41 7/10 × 39 2/5 in - 106 × 100 cm
The artwork is dated and signed by the Artist & stamped with the logo of the studio of the Artist crazynOOdles o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Porn Carnival no. 4)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Untitled (Porn Carnival no. 4), 2019
This story documents the book launch for writer, activist, and sex-worker legend Rachel Rabbit White’s first collection of poetry, Porn Carnival...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Digital Pigment
Chinese Contemporary Art by Jia Yuan-Hua - Sightseeing No.8
By Jia Yuan-Hua
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork sold framed: 76 x 76 x 5,5 cm. The Great Wall of China is well known in the world. Tens of millions of tourists from all over the world...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Tarp
By Cig Harvey
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Blue Violet is a celebration of the natural world and the senses. Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in everyday life.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chinese Contemporary Art by Luo Yi - Serie Red No.4
By Luo Yi
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen
Luo Yi was born in 1965 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. She is an artist specialised in oil painting and contemporary art creation. Luo Yi started learning painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
French Contemporary Art by KEJ - Un Monde Cahotique
By Kej
Located in Paris, IDF
KEJ is a French artist born in 1959 who lives & works in Paris, France. He is considered to belong to the movement of Figuration Libre & Outsider Art. His works are referenced in the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Album No 6 (II)
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 150 ex.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Free shipment worldwide.
Vladimir Velickovic was born in 1935 in Belgrade.
He graduated from the Faculty of ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jello Mello
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed by Patty Carroll
Paper size: 30 x 30 in., Image size: 22 x 22 in.
From the series, Anonymous Women
Frame not included.
Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is characterized as vivid and boldly colored. Where her earlier works include typologies and portraiture, her new work symbolically expresses the domestic roles of women, via the series, Invisible Women.
She earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois and in 1972, she graduated with a Master of Science in Photography from the Institute of Design at IIT, Chicago. Since receiving her MS in Photography, Carroll has been teaching photography at universities worldwide. She has been a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and the Royal College of Art in London, among other schools. Carroll’s photography has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, The Art Institute in Chicago, White Box Museum in Beijing, and The Photographers Association in Ningbo, China.
Her work has received many merits, publications, and grants. In 2014, she was listed in Photolucida’s “Top 50...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pride Home
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 15
Signed by Patty Carroll
Paper size: 30 x 30 in., Image size: 22 x 22 in.
From the series, Anonymous Women
White frame: 31 3/4 x 31 5/8 x 2 in.
Patty Carroll is an Amer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Garden Camellias
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Garden Camelias' original watercolor painted in 2021 in beautiful shades of pink, green with hints of blue and yellow from Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik who has lived in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Untitled, Red Painted on Fiber Glass by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By DVS Krishna
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
DVS Krishna
Red Painted on Fiber Glass - 14 x 13 x 15 inches, 2019
Born in 1973 @ Nellore Town Andhra pradhesh completed his graduation in painting from JNTU Hyderabad in 1996 worke...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Fiberglass
Kuanhou-Summer
By Su Xiaobai
Located in Tbilisi, GE
Etching, aquatint and spite bite
Signed
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching
Tape Collection, Ferric 60 (Tinted Red) - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Ferric 60 (Tinted Red), from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection.
The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, personal past...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Appolo
Located in Miami, FL
A. Laurenti has been exhibiting since 1984 universal, visionary and contemporary paintings.
His images bring back to us through his colors, landscapes and personalities that have exi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil, Pigment
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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