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.
$500
Village Motel Sunset (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Icons
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Village Motel Sunset (Stranger than Paradise) - 2005 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2 (the very last from this edition), Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, ...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$2,400
Woman Protestor, 1960s, Washington, Signed Gelatin Silver Photograph, 14x11
Located in New york, NY
American photographer Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and as a "concerned photographer" his photography demonstrated humanitarian concerns. Woman Protestor, March on Washington, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 14" x 11" gelatin silver photograph, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the estate, Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer). The photo is in Leonard Freed's book “This Is the Day: The March on Washington'' (p. 50). The photographer travelled to New York, Washington, D.C., and throughout the South, capturing the daily lives of African-Americans. Documenting the 1960s Civil Rights Movement from the East Coast to the Deep South, Freed’s photo essay culminated in the book Black in White America, which contributed to Freed's becoming a well-known documentary photographer of 20th Century America. After Freed’s death in 2006 his widow, Brigitte Freed was inspired to compile a book on the March on Washington from her late husband’s archive because she heard then-Senator former President Barack Obama remark to an audience of civil rights activists, “I stand here because you walked.” The March on Washington series is a powerful visual testimony, capturing protests that culminated in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream'' speech, delivered at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. Provenance: Freed estate *** Artist’s Bio: Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
"Pinky" Small Pac-Man Ghost Glass Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Pinky" - Small Glass Pac-Man Ghost Sculpture by Dylan Martinez. Size: 5" h x 4.5" w. Signed on the base by the artist. Each sculpture is unique. These whimsical Pac-Man Ghost scu...
Blown Glass
$9,867
Feline IV by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary animal sculpture, bronze, cat, elegant
Located in Paris, FR
Feline IV is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 24 × 90 × 20 cm (9.4 × 35.4 × 7.9 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part o...
Bronze
$4,000
Rome Details III, Italy Archival Pigment Print, Unframed, 40 x 40 inches
Located in New York City, NY
Giacomo da Prato Rome Details III, Italy, 2022 40 x 40 inches (100 x 100 cm) edition of 5 Archival Pigment Print Unframed Certificate of Authenticity included Framing available upo...
Archival Pigment
Chroma-Q- 21st Century Contemporary portrait Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Tania Rivilis Chroma-Q 41 x 29 cm framed (included in price) 44 x 32 cm Oilpaint on wood panel Tania Rivilis (b. 1986) 2022 winner of the 'William Locke Price' ( £ 30.000 ) from ...
Oil, Wood Panel
$210Sale Price|30% Off
CIRCUS Signed Lithograph, Big Top Tent, Animals, Trapeze Act, Acrobats, Clowns
Located in Union City, NJ
CIRCUS is a hand drawn original lithograph by the Argentine born woman artist Ivel Weihmüller printed using traditional hand printmaking techniques on archival paper 100% acid free. ...
Lithograph
$2,000
Silk and Stone Eight - Geometric Abstract Monotype Red Blue Yellow Coral, 2016
Located in Kent, CT
This is a monotype print, a unique print with no other editions. This monotype on delicate Asian paper layers geometric shapes in yellow, coral, red and blue on a soft blue gray back...
Archival Paper, Monotype
$1,902Sale Price|20% Off
Ancient Laurisilva Forest Study 5, Madeira – Limited Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21024 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$18,000
Soul Gate Eldorado - contemporary, ribbon, 24K gold, steel, wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This elegant and ethereal contemporary wall sculpture, by Stefen Duerst, is hot-formed steel, powder-coated yellow, and finished with a double layer of German 24-karat gold leaf. Ava...
Steel, Gold Leaf
$3,999
Office Party, New York, Gelatin Silver Photograph, Signed, 1966, 16x20 Inches
Located in New york, NY
Office Party, New York City, 1966 by Leonard Freed is a gelatin silver photograph, 16 x 20in, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. Photographer F...
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
$1,710Sale Price|20% Off
Road with Cypress Trees in Indian Summer, Tuscany – Colour Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21245 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,711Sale Price|20% Off
Palm Beach Study 6, Black-and-White Palm Tree Photograph, Florida, Limited Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 18132 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Drifting Between Light and Love - Contemporary Pool House Oil Painting
By Lilly Muth
Located in DE
Lilly Muth's architectural paintings transport viewers on a visual journey to a different world, where imagination knows no bounds and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur...
Canvas, Oil
Vibration n°2 by Martine Demal - Contemporary bronze sculpture, abstract
Located in Paris, FR
Vibration n°2 is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Martine Demal, dimensions including base (wood plinth, steel base) are 61 × 24 × 12 cm (24 × 9.4 × 4.7 in). The sculpture i...
Bronze, Steel
$15,000
Reflections on Water - tall, colourful, hand-blown glass, outdoor sculpture
By Susan Rankin
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Susan Rankin has captured the luminous colour of water—from pale blue and turquoise to ocean blue in her latest series of garden columns. These hand-blown glass outdoor sculptures ar...
Steel
Between Dreams, Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas, 21st Century, Unframed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for contemporary paintings of water that bridge realism and abstraction. At close range, her surfaces appear loose and ambiguous, but from a distance ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$19,000
Alchemia #3 (Indoor/Outdoor) - glossy red, contemporary, painted steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The elegant abstract sculptures of Stefan Duerst are characterized by clean, flowing lines and minimal form hand forged from steel. This piece is a single ‘ribbon’—a contemporary tow...
Steel
$1,320Sale Price|20% Off
State of Mind 13 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Our mindsets dictate our product and output. The mind presides over our endeavors The Power of mindsets should be trained and nurtured towards achieving the best and making great i...
Canvas, Acrylic
Lost in Time
By George Condo
Located in Manchester, GB
By George Condo 2024 22 colour silkscreen with spot colours on 600gsm Somerset Tub Sized Radiant White paper 80 x 81 cm Edition of 150
Paper, Screen
El mar. By Inna Panasenko. 2007. Oil on canvas. 200/300 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Inna Panasennko is one of the most successful and best-selling contemporary artists in Germany. One of the central themes of Inna's work is monumental images of bulls in all their na...
Canvas, Acrylic
Light and Laughter - Gold Leaf Contemporary abstract family painting
Located in DE
Katharina Hormel creates minimalistic landscape paintings featuring everyday scenes of life. Her art often portrays people engaged in their daily activities, such as taking a leisure...
Gold Leaf
$1,800Sale Price|20% Off
Beauty in Her Space, Contemporary Oil on Ankara Fabric, 21st Century
By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Beauty in her space was created by Tunde Bakare. Tunde created the painting with Oil paint on Ankara Wax Fabrics of 32W by 33H. Beauty in Her Space depic...
Oil, Fabric
$2,969
To Leave or Stay: Contemporary Figurative Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
This sophisticated contemporary figurative painting examines the psychological atmosphere of civilian life during the war in Ukraine through a carefully orchestrated symbolic interio...
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$120Sale Price|20% Off
After Robert Motherwell-Art Chicago, 1981, FIRST EDITION
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exceptional poster, featuring an image copyrighted in 1981 by Robert Motherwell, was presented at the Navy Pier in Chicago during the 1981 art show. Printed by Tyler Graphics Lt...
Lithograph
At One with Nature
By Jacob Burda
Located in Zofingen, AG
At One with Nature is a contemplative landscape that explores the quiet harmony between human presence and the natural world. Figures appear gently integrated into the greenery, not ...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,800
Bay
By Bradley Kerl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bradley Kerl creates paintings that merge lived experience, memory, and invention, transforming familiar subjects into images that balance the recognizable with the uncanny. Drawing ...
Canvas, Oil
Walk the Line Photography, Limited Edition, Africa, People, Landscape, b&w
By JJK
Located in München, BY
Walk the Line Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist A man walks along the shore of the coastline in Ghana. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo...
Archival Pigment
South Head, February, Original painting, Contemporary artist
Located in Deddington, GB
An expressive palette knife oil painting of South Head hill, painted en plein air in the Peak District . The thick, textured application of paint brings the landscape to life. The pa...
Oil, Board
$910Sale Price|35% Off
After Botero Bronze Sculpture of Man on Horse, Dark Patina, Edition 50 beautiful
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This AFTER BOTERO sculpture is a very beautiful, faithful reproduction in the style of BOTERO'S work that has sold very well here on 1st Dibs. Please give us up to 10 working days to...
Marble, Bronze
"I'm So Tired" Framed Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
By John Lennon
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "I'm So Tired," first released on the Beatles "White Album" in 1968. This limited edition was release...
Other Medium
Desert Sunflower - Modern Warm Abstract Folk Art Inspired Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker’s "Desert Sunflower" is a luminous original painting that bridges abstract symbolism and folk art tradition through radiant color and bold composition. This unique ac...
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
$675
Calm Mood #2 - Abstract 'I LOVE YOU' Graffiti Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
Canvas, Latex, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
$2,257
St. Nectans Glen, Waterfall, England, monochrome photograph waterscape limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21370 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Donald Sultan "Yellow Poppies" Floral
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Sultan, Donald Title: Yellow Poppies Series: Poppies Date: 2018 Medium: Color silkscreen with enamel inks and flocking on 2-ply museum board Unframed Dimensions: 39" x ...
Color, Screen
Exploring - contemporary, figurative, hand-crafted, ceramic wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary ceramic wall art was created by Heather Allen Hietala. The finely crafted wood-fired ceramics of Heather Allen Hietala are designed to tell a compelling story. Usi...
Wire
$2,377Sale Price|20% Off
Row of Cypress Trees, Tuscany – Limited Edition Colour Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21255 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$8,800
Wolf Kahn - Ocean Cove, unique signed pastel on paper landscape painting, Framed
By Wolf Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Wolf Kahn Ocean Cove, 1996 Pastel on paper painting Hand signed and dated by Wolf Kahn on the lower right Frame included: elegantly matted and framed in a museum quality hand made wo...
Oil Pastel, Pastel
$2,565Sale Price|20% Off
Wine Press House, Study 3 – Limited Edition Black-and-White Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21059 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Odysseus. Limited Edition 1/5 - Bronze Sculpture
Located in Riga, LV
Dimensions: 21 W x 43 H x 19 D cm Weight: 9 kg Material: Bronze, patina Edition: 1/5 + 1 AP, signed on base Condition: Excellent, certificate Free worldwide shipping in a branded box...
Bronze
Vetyver Pool, Poovar, Kerala - Tropical Palm Print Indian Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Vetyver Pool, photograph from Richard Heeps India series, The Ambassador's Window. On a journey through India, a pilgrimage from Kerala in the South, to his Grandfather's birthplace ...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$1,711Sale Price|20% Off
North Atlantic Basalt – Black and White Seascape Photograph, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21237 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Robert Longo 'Frank & Glenn' Hand Signed and Framed, 1991
By Robert Longo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lithograph in colors on wove paper. Artist proof signed and numbered in pencil out of 10 by Robert Longo, published by Brooke Alexander from the Men in the Cities. Frank and Glen st...
Lithograph
"Evanescent Poppies" 2025
Located in New York, NY
Marilla Palmer Evanescent Poppies, 2025 pressed foliage, 12K gold leaf, acrylic on Ampersand panel 16 x 12 in. (pal248) Marilla Palmer lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has shown...
Gold Leaf
$200Sale Price|20% Off
Still-Life with Pink Cat Offset Print, Contemporary, Unframed, 1990s
By Walasse Ting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 37.75 x 54.5 inches ( 95.885 x 138.43 cm ) Image Size: 27.5 x 54.5 inches ( 69.85 x 138.43 cm ) Framed: No?Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Shipping...
Offset
$2,444Sale Price|44% Off
Kurt Cobain Journals #11
By Kerry Smith
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kerry Smith Kurt Cobain Journals #11 Mixed Media on torn canvas Year: 2022 Size: 27x18in Framed: 32x24in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1619 -----------------------...
Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Perseus. Limited Edition 1/5 - Bronze Sculpture
Located in Riga, LV
Dimensions: 42 W x 34 H x 15 D cm Weight: 33 kg Material: Bronze, patina Edition: 1/5 + 1 AP, signed on base Condition: Excellent, certificate Free worldwide shipping in a branded bo...
Bronze
Sanctuary
Located in Zofingen, AG
Artist: Olesia Miftahova Title: Sanctuary Series: Older than Memory Year: 2026 Medium: Acrylic on 100% cotton canvas Style: Contemporary Symbolism, Expressionism, Minimalism Subjec...
Canvas, Acrylic
$378Sale Price|35% Off
Park XVI (Berlin artist, Postwar, Contemporary, Abstract vs Figurative)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Barbara Keidel Park XVI Mixed media, pastel on handmade, toned laid paper 1997 Size: 29.5 × 21.25 inches (75 × 54 cm) Signed and dated in pencil Additionally hand-signed, dated, tit...
Pastel, Mixed Media, Laid Paper
$1,711Sale Price|20% Off
Little Rock Island Panorama, Spain, Long-Exposure Colour Seascape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21380 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Jim Dine, Self Portrait, American Artist, Harvard, Joel Grey
By Jim Dine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jim Dine (Born 1935) Harvard Self-Portrait with Glasses in Sepia etching, soft-ground etching, drypoint and photogravure printed in red-brown ink, 1978 Signed in pencil lower left (s...
Etching
Inside
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this work, the artist explores the mechanics of how we store and structure personal experiences. Instead of organic petals, we see a system of concentric circles reminiscent of tr...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,282Sale Price|20% Off
View of Venice, Panorama– Santa Maria della Salute, Italy, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25026 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,997Sale Price|20% Off
Ancient Laurisilva Forest Tree, Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Ancient Laurisilva Forest Study 4, Portugal - no. 21023 // Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Old trees in the fairy forest on the mystical island of Madeira, Fan...
Digital Pigment
Boy and the Blossom 2 -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait, Modern Men
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This painting invites us to see strength in a different light, not as something loud or forceful, but as something calm, grounded, and quietly powerful. There’s a gentle confidence i...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,600
She loved being in love 7/30 - playful, figurative bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The narrative of love takes many forms in this bronze Gillie and Marc sculpture. Sculpture weighs approx. 12.5 lbs. The artists' names and edition number, 12/30, are stamped into the...
Bronze
$6,000
OUT CHORUS( RHYTHM SECTION) Hand Signed Lithograph, Abstract Jazz Portrait, Sax
Located in Union City, NJ
OUT CHORUS(RHYTHM SECTION) is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free, in an editio...
Lithograph
$1,710Sale Price|20% Off
Eiffel Tower Stairs at the Trocadéro, Paris, Black-and-White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 18117 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Halong Bay, Vietnam – Limited-Edition Minimalist Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21367 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Horizon, Cabo Sardão - Abstract Landscape, Contemporary Painted + Woven Artwork
Located in Hallein, AT
‘Horizon. Cabo Sardão’ 2020 Handwoven painting, linen, woollen, silk, cotton yarn, acrylic textile paint, 135 x 65 cm Handwoven painting from the series ‘Horizons’, based on a portuguese landscape...
Textile, Linen, Yarn, Acrylic