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.
$860
Untitled - Blue Landscape With Trees, XX Century Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Hallein, AT
Alina Dobrowolska - artist from Gdańsk; graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the Faculty of Painting. She took part in collective and individual exhibitions in Poland...
Canvas, Oil
$1,928Sale Price|20% Off
Ancient Laurisilva Forest, Madeira Portugal, Limited Black and White Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21017 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Titulado "Ausencia" - Óleo sobre tela - Sin enmarcar - 130x130cm.
By Isabel Cid
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado y titulado por la artista en la parte trasera El estado de la obra es bueno Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra Medidas obra: 130 cm altura x 130 cm ancho ::::::::::::::::::...
Oil
$1,652Sale Price|20% Off
Rocks on the Shore, Limited Edition Black and White Coastal Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21116 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$943
American Cowboy Head and Torso, Salton Sea, California - American Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic American icon, the roadside giant Cowboy "Muffler Man", captured on Richard Heeps' road trip between Mecca and the Salton Sea. Part of a series of pictures by Richard Heeps...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Ricqlès Pour Une Sorcière, Oil Painting, Figurative, Contemporary Realism
By Jade Boissin
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork and Unique Work. Medium : Oil painting on naturel wood panel. Artist : Jade Boissin Subject : Ricqlès pour une sorcière (FR -Title) Ri...
Oil
NEW DREAMS Original Lithograph, Black History, African American Women
Located in Union City, NJ
NEW DREAMS is an original limited edition lithograph by the Harlem Renaissance, social realist African-American artist ERNEST CRICHLOW (1914-2005). NEW DREAMS was printed from hand d...
Lithograph
$2,123
Untitled 1 - Contemporary Atmospheric River Landscape, Modern Nature Painting
Located in Hallein, AT
A few words of the artist about his art: When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$1,836Sale Price|20% Off
White Cliffs of Étretat Study 2, France, Limited Edition Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21308 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$25,822
Horizon, contemporary, wildlife, black and white photography, Leopard
Located in München, BY
Edition of 5 more sizes on request signed and numbered on front in lower corner A Portrait of big majestic leopard in the tree. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleri...
Archival Pigment
$1,652Sale Price|20% Off
Dancing on Ice, Manhattan Skyline, New York, Black and White Photograph Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11787 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,000
Folded Moon, large 3/20 - detailed, photography, shaped tondo wall relief
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As a child, Ryan Van Der Hout owned a telescope and was fascinated by the sight of the moon in the night sky. This iconic image of the moon as viewed from earth is re-imagined when V...
Mirror, Plexiglass, Digital
"First Blooming" colorful birds, herons, mushrooms, flowers, surreal, joyful
Located in Edgartown, MA
“First Blooming” is a bright and vivid painting with blue herons and colorful, chipper songbirds placed among patterned mushrooms, orange flowers, pink blooms and green leaves. Fram...
Canvas, Plaster, Acrylic, Board, Color Pencil
Lightness of Being / Freedom Edition (Queen)
By Chris Levine
Located in London, GB
A laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel. Produced in 2021. An image derived from the sittings for Equanimity, which depicts Queen Elizabeth II with her eyes closed. Edi...
Giclée
$3,029Sale Price|20% Off
Black and White Mountain Lake Winter Panorama Photograph Print – Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21052 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
NASA Apollo 14, US Flag, Vintage Chromogenic Photograph, Alan Shepard, 8x10"
By Nasa
Located in New york, NY
NASA Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard stands by the US flag on the moon with the shadow of Edgar D. Mitchell, module pilot, taking the picture. This is an 8" x 10" vintage chromog...
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
$4,407
M.160302 by Toshio Iezumi - Contemporary glass sculpture, green, abstract, light
Located in Paris, FR
M.160302 is a glass sculpture by Japanese contemporary artist Toshio Iezumi, dimensions are 29 × 12 × 8 cm (11.4 × 4.7 × 3.1 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of...
Glass
$480Sale Price|20% Off
Ancient Trees Cyanotype Print, Contemporary, Ed. 1 of 5, 30 x 20"
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The paths are crowded with towering eucalyptus, bay laurel and madrone tr...
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Donald Sultan "Reds, Dec. 2, 2020" Floral
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Sultan, Donald Title: Reds, Dec 2, 2020 Date: 2021 Medium: Color silkscreen with over-printed flocking on Rising, 4 ply museum board Unframed Dimensions: 25" x 25" Frame...
Color, Screen
$3,443
Drangarnir Sea Arch, Faroe Islands – Minimalist Long-Exposure Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21269 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Signed Electric Chair Screen Print, Contemporary Edition of 250, 1970s
By Andy Warhol
Located in Bristol, GB
Screen print in colours Edition of 250 90 x 121.5 cm (35.4 x 47.8 in) Signed, numbered and dated on the back Condition on request Printed by Silk Print Kettner, Zürich, published by ...
Screen
Chronos by Romain Langlois - Rock-like bronze sculpture, golden
Located in Paris, FR
Chronos is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Romain Langlois, dimensions are 64 × 66 × 50 cm (25.2 × 26 × 19.7 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a lim...
Bronze
Ink in the Room Screen Print, Contemporary, Signed Edition 37/68
Located in Bristol, GB
23-colour screenprint on Arches 88 paper Edition 37 of 68 + 14 AP's Signed, numbered, dated and blindstamped by publisher on the front (Gemini G.E.L.) Excellent, with minor loss of s...
Screen
Spiral Circle of life - bronze figurative sculpture, 130 cm high
By Tolla Inbar
Located in New York, NY
"Spiral circle of life" is a sculptural meditation on connection, movement, and the invisible bonds that unite us. Individual human figures join hands to form a flowing spiral - an a...
Bronze
$2,662Sale Price|20% Off
Esplanade with Chestnut Trees – Black-and-White Fine Art Photo – Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21115 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
French Contemporary Art by Paul Gallaud - Acrylic Osmose 04
By Paul Gallaud
Located in Paris, IDF
Glossy acrylic glass & inkjet print Paul Gallaud is a French visual artist born in 1984 who lives and works in Croix, near Lille, France. After graduating with a BAC STI Applied...
Acrylic, Inkjet
'Hydrangeas' watercolor on paper, professionally framed in light wood
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Hydrangeas' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and size. Inter...
Watercolor, Paper
Tennis, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 - Lithograph by Fabio Mauri
By Fabio Mauri
Located in Roma, IT
Tennis, Olympic Games Beijing 2008 is a wonderful colored screen print realized by Fabio Mauri in occasion of the Olympic Games held in Beijing in 2008. This artwork is a part of t...
Lithograph
$1,101Sale Price|20% Off
Heart Antelope Canon, Arizona, USA, minimalist black and white print, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11873 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
The Logic Within
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor (born 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and is represented within...
Archival Pigment
St Ives, Walls and Shadows, Original painting, Abstract Floral art
Located in Deddington, GB
This large abstract canvas is part of my St Ives collection. It is inspired by sketches down by the harbour with its old fishermen’s cottages and narrow alleyways. When the sun shine...
Canvas, Oil
Abalone Shell with Pearl
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Sea Within — Shells & Pearls. Abalone Shell with Pearl explores the ocean’s luminous beauty through a sophisticated, jewel-like palette of turquoise, aquamarine, cobalt and u...
Canvas, Acrylic
Slide, Colorful Abstract Pattern Upcycled Collage Textile Mixed Media Wall Art
Located in New York, NY
Linda Kamille Schmidt’s Slide transforms humble remnants of fabric into a compact, exuberant abstraction. Strips of translucent, fluorescent, and industrial textiles are layered, sti...
Fabric, Thread, Acrylic, Pins
Let's Clay - Werner Bronkhorst - Tennis
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst Let's Clay, 2026 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks. Hand-stretched over FSC-ce...
Giclée
Anita, Lady Fen, Welney - Vintage Fashion Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Anita, part of Richard Heeps autobiographical series, 'A View of the Fens from the Car With Wings', a journey on the roads of his childhood. Unusually for Richard this is a staged ph...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$1,652Sale Price|20% Off
Deer in Fairy Forest, Mystical Tree, Madeira – Black and White Landscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 21073 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,101Sale Price|20% Off
Cypress Trees Along the Road, Tuscany – Black and White Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 18214 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$161,249
Viga 1, 2, 3 & 4 by Tom Price - Abstract sculpture, wood, steel, resin, column
By Tom Price
Located in Paris, FR
Viga 1, 2, 3 & 4 is a group of sculptures by contemporary artist Tom Price. These sculptures are made of resin, tar, steel, wood. Overall dimensions are 242 × 180 × 45 cm (95.2 ×...
Steel
$2,203Sale Price|20% Off
Sea Stack, Bay of Biscay, Spain – Limited Edition Long-Exposure Colour Seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25004 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,479Sale Price|20% Off
Small Rocky Island with Trees, Norway, Limited Ed. Colour Fine Art Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21325 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$960Sale Price|20% Off
FRAMED Louis XVI #7 original painting by Paula Craioveanu 27.5x19.5in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Louis XVI #7 Part of "Mixed Moods" solo show, until September 29. Original painting. Size 27.5x19.5in / 70x50cm . Acrylic on canvas. The period armchair, style Louis XVI, become th...
Acrylic
Shared Vision Oil Painting on Canvas, Contemporary, 1990s, Unframed
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Shared Vision," a captivating artwork by Abiodun Nafiu Azeez, beautifully encapsulates the idea of unity and collaboration. In this piece, Azeez skillfu...
Canvas, Oil
Untitled IV - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Impasto, Impressionism
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure 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 Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Canvas, Oil
Marfa - 21st Century, Polaroid, Landscape Photography, Color, Contemporary
By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Marfa 2019, 20x24cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proof. Digital C-print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2019-704. Kirste...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Couple by Delphine Brabant - Abstract bronze sculpture, diptych, column
Located in Paris, FR
Couple is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Delphine Brabant, dimensions are 54 × 22 × 16 cm (21.3 × 8.7 × 6.3 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a lim...
Bronze
Landscape - Oil Paint - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by an italian painter in 1990s and hand signed "De Silvestri". Very good condition.
Oil
Ignite2
Located in Zofingen, AG
In my work, I explore how inherited emotional distance turns into a lifelong search for intimacy. I am interested in moments in which connection does not require justification, where...
Canvas, Oil
$2,019Sale Price|20% Off
Wave Watcher, France – Minimalist Colour Fine Art Photograph of Surfer on Beach
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21280 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Kerry James Marshall - Keeping the Culture, silkscreen and linocut, Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall Keeping the Culture, 2011 Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges 20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front Published by Africa House International, Chicago Unframed In September, 2025, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This major exhibition was the largest presentation of Marshall's work in the United Kingdom and Europe, and featured more than 70 works by the the artist, including a large number of paintings and a selection of prints, drawings and sculptures. Highlights of the show include a new series of paintings that explore the transatlantic slave trade, along with Knowledge and Wonder, a mural commissioned in 1995 by the Chicago Public Library that is the largest painting Marshall has produced. The exhibition at the Royal Academy will then travel to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris. Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier, which is featured in the Royal Academy Exhibition. In 2013, an original painting, upon which this work is based, sold at Christie's auction. Below is the Christie's Lot Essay for that painting: ..." Set in a revolutionary apartment in the cosmos, Kerry James Marshall's Keeping the Culture optimistically anticipates a future that pays homage to the past. Ushering in a new stage of the artist's output, Keeping the Culture shifts focus from the failed utopia of urban renewal and the commemoration of civil rights era heroes in favor of a more technically refined meditation on the preservation of the traditional and spiritual values that shaped a culture. Placed in an ultramodern environment, two siblings marvel at a projection of the earth--in which Marshall has aptly positioned the African continent toward the viewer-while their affectionate parents dance in the foreground. Overlooking the milky way, Marshall's space-age flat is decorated with earthly relics-wooden tribal sculptures...
Mixed Media, Pencil, Linocut, Screen
Breed Street Shul, by Frank Romero
By Frank Romero
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and titled by the artist from the edition of 69. This print feature a small a small Jewish Shul in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles where Romero grew up, Romero was fea...
Screen
Fancy! WTF (Hers) - Pink & White Glass Pill Sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Fancy! (WTF) Her"- Limited edition pink and white glass pill sculpture by Edie Nadelhaft. Edition of 9. Signed and numbered on the back by the artist. The piece is equipped with ...
Glass, Mixed Media
"What Are We?" Figurative Color Pencil and Ink Drawing, 100x70 cm
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
This drawing (100 × 78 cm) brings together human, animal, and botanical forms within a single composition, where overlapping figures create a continuous visual field. The work is bui...
Ink, Color Pencil, Paper, Pigment
Space for Giants: Contemporary Black and White Photography, Framed
By David Yarrow
Located in London, GB
David Yarrow SPACE FOR GIANTS, 2020 Fuji Archival DP II Matt photograph 61.8 x 76.2 cm - sheet 70.4 x 84.7 cm - Framed with 3mm ArtGlass Lifetime Museum Acrylic edition 216 of 599 p...
Photographic Paper, Photography
"Stories We Tell Ourselves" Illustrative Photography
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This archival illustrative photography pigment print on cotton rag by Andrew Pinkham measures 20in x 16in and is signed and numbered. This piece is part of a small edition of 10. ...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Morning at Lawson Park, Contemporary Landscape Oil Painting by Millie Gosch
By Millie Gosch
Located in Atlanta, GA
Morning at Lawson Park by Millie Gosch is an original contemporary landscape painting executed in oil on linen board. Measuring 14 x 18 inches and presented in a 16 x 20 inch frame, ...
Linen, Oil, Board
Contemporary Mixed Media Painting on Canvas, Signed, 21st Century
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Meditate" by Oluwafemi Akanmu is a thought-provoking artwork that captures a moment of introspection and contemplation. The central figure, a man seated with his hand supporting his...
Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$4,400
Cloud Study IV - large scale photograph of dramatic momochromatic cloudscape sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
An homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Pacific Ocean, from a series of dramatic cloud atlas observations and abstract skyscapes above the winter sea, c...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Too Many
Located in New York, NY
image size: 8 3/4 x 8 inches William Wegman is a renowned photographer famous for his unique and artistic photographs of Weimaraner puppies. His approach to is far from convention...
Pigment
Chill Out: Fragment
Located in Zofingen, AG
Size: 90×90 cm (overall size with stretching 100×100 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled Series: Chill Out «Chill Out: Fragment» This painting is about findi...
Canvas, Acrylic
$3,672
Eiffelturm Fontaine du Trocadero Paris + Pavillon de Flore, Paris, France
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited edition of 9. Archival fine art pigment print. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white ...
Digital Pigment