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: Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (DuPont Percodan)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Metronidazole)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Fioricet)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Gilead)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Watson 387)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled (Frosst 67 Necklace)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled (1 Charm Necklace, Sulfamethoxazole-Trimethoprim)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Hembinda (19), Himba, Namibia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a young woman of the Himba tribe in Namibia. She's carrying her baby on her back. You can see the little Baby feet on each side of her body.
Silver Gelatine, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Namesek (50) Turkana, Kenya, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait from the back of an old Massai warrior in Kenya. He's holding a spear.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium boa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Untitled pendant (Warfarin)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Acetaminophen-Codeine)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (2083 V - Allopurinol)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (M 775 - Benazepril Hydrochloride and Hydrochlorothiazide)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (54 343)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Vasotec)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Fluvox)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Modafinil)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Apo-Metoprolol)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Trimethoprim / Sulfamethoxazole DS)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Timolide)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Glumetza)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Deplin)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Bayer)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (codeine, and caffeine)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Tylenol 4)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (Tylenol 3)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled pendant (aspirin / butalbital / caffeine)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled (3 Charm Necklacem Mixed)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled (1 Charm Necklace, Acetaminophen)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I have been taking impressions of pills and creating a pill archive where pills are cast in silver and/or gold since 1995. At that time I was given pills as an answer to something th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Minhphu, Turkana, Kenya, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait from the back of a very young boy of the Turkana tribe in Kenya. He's holding two fishes on a line over his back.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Azizi, Rendille, Ethiopia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a woman of the Rendille tribe in Ethiopia.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board, signed and numbered
Also available in:
64 x 77 cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Nakoro (13), Suri, Ethiopia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a young boy of the Suri tribe in Ethiopia. He's holding some baby birds in his hands.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board, signed a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Tunzala (65), Turkana, Kenya, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of an old woman of the Turkana tribe in Kenya. She is holding a stick and a fish in her hand.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board, sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Olekibo, Suri, Ethiopia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a young girl of the Suri tribe in Ethiopia. Her face is white painted and she holds a feather.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board,...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Ekri (41), Kara, Ethiopia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a warrior of the Kara tribe in Ethiopia. He's holding a spear in his hands and has some feathers on his head.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Biwa (44), Kara, Ethiopia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a warrior of the Kara tribe in Ethiopia is wearing a crocodile on his shoulders.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board, signed and nu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Leboo (52), Massai, Kenya Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of an old Massai warrior in Kenya. He's wearing a hat of fur and holds a spear.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm alum...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Mukangumbi, Himba, Namibia, Silver Gelatine, Photography, Contemporary
Located in Munich, DE
"Essence"
A portrait of a man of the Himba tribe in Namibia. He's holding a cow skull with big horns in his hands.
Silver Gelatine, partly toned. Mounted on 1 mm aluminium board, sig...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Neil Young, 1971
By Henry Diltz
Located in New York, NY
16x20“
Limited Edition
Signed, Titled, and Numbered by Henry Diltz
Please allow extra production time.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Matrix Index 5 / Silver
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Colleen Wolstenholme’s interest in the brain has flowed from her longstanding practice of making meticulous impressions of pharmaceutical drugs, such as Xanax, Prozac and Adderal, cr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Polystyrene
Otra vuelta por el universo
Located in New York, NY
Otra vuelta por el universo, 2018
Silver ink on paper and magnets unframed
17.72h x 16.14w in
Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 2018
Silver ink on paper, collage unframed
15.35h x 15.75w in
Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal academic training at th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Sur-Norte
Located in New York, NY
Sur-Norte, 2018
Silver ink on paper, collage unframed
12.60h x 14.17w in
Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal academic training at t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Una vuelta por el universo
Located in New York, NY
Una vuelta por el universo, 2018
Silver ink on paper
44.49h x 20.28w in
Miriam Peralta was born in 1957 in Buenos Aires, where she also received her formal academic training at th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Converse, Silver Hi-Tops - Michael Schachtner, Contemporary, Fashion Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Converse, Silver Hi-Tops is a dynamic C-Type print, sold in this size in an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Converse, Silver Lo-Tops - Michael Schachtner, Contemporary Photography, Fashion
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Converse, Silver Lo-Tops is a dynamic C-Type print, sold in this size in an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper
Hibernation, mixed media painting on canvas, abstract, pink and grey
By Tracy Silva Barbosa
Located in New York, NY
Tracy Silva Barbosa, Hibernation (2015), Acrylic and silver leaf on canvas, Diptych, 60 x 24 inches each; 60 x 48 inches overall
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Dollar Tree US Dollar & Silver - contemporary mixed media money concept artwork
Located in London, GB
In 2004 Gemma was a finalist in the B.P. Portrait Awards in a year of record entries, and exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Gemma has specialised in the human form...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver
Silver Beach
Located in New York, NY
2008, direct to plate photogravure and aquatint, 27 x 22 inches, edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photogravure
The Silver Rope - Original Abstract Painting on Canvas
By Ricky Hunt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s work is influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphs, graffiti and his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the canvas with unique imager...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Silver Laced Polish
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
All photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper with natural deckled edges and contact printed. Since platinum, like ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
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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