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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.

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Style: Contemporary
Pinocchio & Jiminy Cricket
By KAWS
Located in Bristol, GB
Painted cast vinyl Edition of 500 (reported) 26 x 13.5 x 12 / 5.7 x 3 x 2.5 cm (10.2 x 5.3 x 4.7 / 2.2 x 1.2 x 1.1 in) Not signed or numbered Excellent, very minor scratch to Pinocch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Plastic, Vinyl

"Pink Chiffon" Contemporary Landscape Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This colorful contemporary landscape painting by Carol Young features a warm, vibrant palette and captures a rural scene. A cool blue-violet barn sits in a yellow-gold field and cast...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Madeira Peaks, morning Light, black white photography, limited edition landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Madeira's mountain peaks in morning light, Fanal, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

BEARDEN Early Carolina Morning Serigraph African American Art
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction silkscreen poster features Romare Bearden's vibrant work Early Carolina Morning, published by American Vision Gallery Inc. The piece has ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Open Arms - 21st Century Contemporary, Nude Woman Sculpture, Bronze
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Andries Velting is a new artist at Gallerie Bonnard. His moving sculptures of dancers are a special addition tot our existing collection. Velting say...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Soft Autumn Shades in Bunny Wood No. 2, original painting, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
This work comprises two panels (diptych) depicting an autumn woodland. Although the paintings could be available separately, they form a continuous landscape when hung side by side, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Midcentury Modern Shapes in Red Coral, Vivid Tones Abstract Triptych on Beige
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Coral Curves II" is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, and 70...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil Crayon, Acrylic, Rag Paper

Trinidad Caribbean Humming Birds Jungle Forest Birds Verandah Blue Green
Located in Norfolk, GB
View from a Verandah, acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 23cm, 2021 Even in his most realistic images, there is a beautiful exaggeration in the paintings of Peter Rodulfo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Romare Bearden, Dreams of Exile (Green Snake), 1971, by African-American, signed
Located in New York, NY
A North Carolina native, the African-American Romare Bearden spent most of his career in New York City. For several decades he was a social worker in Harlem. But of course he traveled widely, read and studied with great care, and created a phenomenal body of work. This 1971 lithograph is a good example of his oeuvre -- far reaching though it may be. It speaks to his skill and knowledge of contemporary printmaking while featuring a complex subject representative of his interests. A lush jungles is packed with flora and fauna. 'Green Snake' is part of the title and there is a particularly winsome reptile showing up so well on the sand-colored border between the dense forest and the aquamarine water. There are of course many other land and sea animals showing themselves -- even a curious ginger cat...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Clouds - Contemporary Atmospheric Landscape Oil Pastel Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

Bayou Casino
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Bayou Casino Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 48" x 48" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Unique
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Zon, Wolken en Wind Sun, Clouds and Wind Modern Trees River Nature New In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Peter Bol, born in 1947 in Eindhoven, is a Dutch painter renowned for his colorful and expressive landscapes and still lifes. As the son of the esteemed painter Kees Bol, he was imme...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Black Leftovers, Wavebreaker, minimalism photograqph, limited edtion seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink

''Tendresse'' Contemporary Oil Painting of a Mother and Child on the Beach
Located in Utrecht, NL
The Polish artist Ewa Rzeznik reflects reality in her colorful paintings: Fishermen along the French coast, families walking towards the Mon Saint-Michel, children playing in the sur...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Dark Horse' Dutch Contemporary Fresco Painting with a Horse
Located in Utrecht, NL
The pronounced technique is the first thing that strikes you when viewing the works of Jan Grotenbreg (1946). It is innovative and unique. The result of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Day by Daybed" 2023
Located in New York, NY
Justin Pollmann "Day by Daybed" 2023 Inkjet Transfer Collage, Monotype 25"x27.5" inches The inkjet transfer images are made by collaging transfers of inkjet prints to the paper’s ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Inkjet

Champagne Paradise, Vineyard, Tree Landscape, limited edition photography print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Julia" Framed Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Julia" first released on the Beatles "White Album" in 1968 and written about John's mother. This lim...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Other Medium

Flora Italiana (Waratah Red) - large format botanical still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Female Nude, Portfolio of Five Black and White Photographs from the Kate Series
Located in New york, NY
The Kate Series, 2002 by Leonard Freed came as a welcome reprieve near the end of Freed's life before which time the photographer tackled social-documentary subjects for which he bec...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Grand Central Station, New York City, black and white photography, cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Reynisdrangar, Iceland, Landscape Monochrome Print, Limited Edition, Seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Light Sail - Contemporary Bronze Figurative Table Sculpture Boat Travel World
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mireia Serra creates sensuous bronze and iron sculptures showing the beauty of snapshots caught in life which are full of emotions and feelings along the life journey. Her metal artw...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal, Bronze

The Swamp Landascape - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The swamp landascape is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, p...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Hot Air - Abstract Mountain Landscape Pink Yellow Stripes Resin, 2015
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract landscape, a sense of wonder and whimsy is conveyed, blending of fantasy and realism. Shane McAdams' unique ballpoint ink process layers striations of b...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Oil, Panel, Ballpoint Pen

Louise Bourgeois "Be Calm" Limited Edition Ceramic Dish MOMA
Located in New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois Be Calm Butter or Trinket Dish, 2017 Screenprint on Ceramic 6 × 4 × 1 inches Unframed Stamped by artist's estate, bears printed copyright and name stamp of The Easto...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic, Screen

We Grow When We Know Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authent...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Gerhard Richter-Victoria I plate signed Limited Edition
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of a 1986 painting, published in 2003, as a gift for the employees of the Victoria-Versicherung Insurance company. This is an offset lithograph of “Victoria I” which has...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

"Imagine Self Portrait" Limited Edition Drawing
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's most famous self portrait. originally drawn in 1968, this limited edition was released by Bag One Arts (The Lennon Estate) in 1995, a...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen, Other Medium

"Gestural Study of Presence and Absence I" Abstract Framed Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Gestural Study of Presence and Absence I" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Meredith Pardue, depicting organic, overlapping shapes in vibrant hues of yellow, blue, pink, gr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Osage Sheep State II
Located in Kansas City, MO
Theodore Waddell Osage Sheep State II Year: 1994 Color Lithograph Edition: 30 Papers: Arches Cover, Black Paper Size: 22.5 x 30 inches Image Size: Same Signed and numbered by hand CO...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Chase Me - Original Colorful Retro Inspired Abstract Artwork
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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Elizabeth Taylor with Lasso
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning colored image features the lovely Elizabeth Taylor spinning a lasso on the set of the 1956 film "Giant". Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and ...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment

Apple Red Very Very Pocket Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Very Very Red Apple is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Feasible -21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanie...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Sandbar Trilogy - gay beach, figurative acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Sandbar Trilogy is a brilliantly colorful pop art painting, an ode to the popular gay beach scene in Miami, Florida. Three panels of male figures are seen lounging, sitting and stan...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic

Clara Bow: The Roaring 20s' "It Girl"
Located in Austin, TX
Stunning black and white promotional portrait of Clara Bow gazing into the camera. Clara Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and ...
Category

1920s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Figure Drawing by Mark Beard (Stoic, Muscular Male Nude Charcoal Life Drawing)
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic life drawing of male nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper 30 x 19.5 inches unframed Signed, lower left Strong f...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite

Iceberg, silent morning, Iceland, black and white fine art landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

''Sunday Afternoon'' Contemporary Oil Painting of Family on the Beach
Located in Utrecht, NL
The Polish artist Ewa Rzeznik reflects reality in her colorful paintings: Fishermen along the French coast, families walking towards the Mon Saint-Michel, children playing in the sur...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Undo - signed fine art photograph with pre-order copy of 'Solace' book
Located in London, GB
This limited-edition signed photograph by Ugnė Pouwell is a timeless exploration of light, shadow, and texture, capturing the themes explored in her debut photography book, Solace. E...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

"Dripping Dots - Monaco" Multicolor Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
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 flakes with thick textured oils and glass...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Glass, Oil, Mixed Media

Da Vinci's Horse Galloping by Helle Crawford, Gold horse animal sculpture
Located in DE
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold, Bronze

Black Heritage 5 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, African, Woman, Hair
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Black heritage portrays the rich cultural, historical, and social contributions of Black individuals and communities throughout history. It encompasses the traditions, values, and ac...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Pink Dous
Located in Zofingen, AG
"DOUS" series. Sculptures of this series are created for your interior in different colors. It is always important to combine objects with each other. That is why I created a pair...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Copper

BACKYARD Signed Lithograph, Black Couple, African American Heritage, Quilts
Located in Union City, NJ
BACKYARD by the artist James Denmark is an original hand drawn, limited edition lithograph printed on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid free using traditional hand lithography techniques. BACKYARD is one of Denmark's colorful collage compositions of everyday African American life - a soulful Southern country folk scene featuring a standing woman wearing a red orange skirt, multicolored floral print top, and dark indigo print head wrap; her male companion dressed in blue denim jeans, dark indigo print shirt and denim hat sitting in the backyard as the patchwork quilts flutter on the clothesline. Vivid coloration and textures captivate the eye with variety - deep violet, reds, fiery orange, touches of yellow, dark black and shades of blue - a very strong impression and fine example of hand lithography! Print size - 38 x 23 inches, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed and numbered by James Denmark Edition size - 250, plus proofs Year published - 1996 Printer - J K Fine Art Editions Co., NJ Publisher - Mojo...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Eleven Trees in the snow Field, Winter Wonderland, Landscape, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Panorama Photography. Winter Landscape with trees in a row, minimalist art, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authen...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Tulip Fields 27 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, flowers
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 27 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 4 di...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized Minis - The Girl IV (The Girl) - signed, loose
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Mini The Girl IV (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016 signed in front, not mounted. Digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroids. Polaroid sized...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

"Night at the Palais Garnier" Gold Leaf French Haute Couture Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Cage: P19-4
Located in Bristol, GB
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel, based on the eponymous painting from Richter’s ‘Cage Paintings’ (2006) series Edition of 200 Num...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Silent Protest. Original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting conveys a moment of deep reflection and inner focus. It is a quiet assertion of its space and time, where there is no need for words. The subtle details of the setting e...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Interior Space#2 Sea, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The shimmering sea peeks through a beach house and offers a glimpse of its tranquil beauty. The floor, wall, and ceiling lead to the water, creating a seamles...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Close Up - large format photograph of conceptual billboard sign in landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of billboard sign with conceptual message in iconic landscape of the American West. A series of images capturing the unique infi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée

Geisha Skateboard Triptych(suite of three silkscreen skateboards numbered 55/150
Located in New York, NY
Nobuyoshi Araki Geisha Skateboard Triptych, ca. 2014 Set of (3) Skateboards of Silkscreen on 7 ply Canadian Maplewood Deck Signed in plate, Each signed on the deck and hand numbered ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Maple, Screen

Mexican Artist ¨Transición sepia¨ signed limited edition original art print
Located in Miami, FL
Juan Sebastian Barbera (Mexico, 1964) 'Transicion sepia (b/n)', 2004 engraving on paper Guarro Super Alpha 250g. 19.7 x 27.6 in. (50 x 70 cm.) Edition o...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint, Screen

Hero - African American Baseball Player, Boxer, Soldier, and Businessman
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus's "Hero" is a 24 x 48 inches mixed media work on canvas with collage. The work is partitioned in two distinct images. On the left side the artist depicted a baseball player...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Supercomb (Exhibition Poster)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Created by Jean Michel Basquiat for his exhibition at Yvon Lambert, Paris in 1988. Super vibrant colors with many interesting details of images and words combined in Basquiat's styli...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

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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