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.
D2-1B Alpinist
By Peter Doig
Located in Bristol, GB
Giclée print on cotton smooth rag Edition 74 of 250 136 x 92 cm (53.5 x 36.2 in) Framed dimensions (136 x 92 x 3 cm / 53.5 x 36.2 x 1.2 in) Signed, numbered and dated on the front N...
Giclée
Woman - Etching by Bruno Caruso - 1980s
By Bruno Caruso
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed and numbered in pencil. Edition of 100. Very good condition.
Etching
$240Sale Price|20% Off
Signed Hand-Printed Cyanotype Photograph: Moonlight Magnolia, 24x18 inches, 1/10
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a hand-printed photograph using the 170-year-old cyanotype process. This is a negative (reversal of the dark and light tones) of the original photograph of a branch of a magn...
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$1,831Sale 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
$560Sale Price|20% Off
L'Imagination Prend Le Pouvoir Poster, Offset Print, 1968
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This rare original poster by Pierre Alechinsky is a powerful artistic and historical document from the May 1968 Paris student protests. Printed on billboard paper using a home press,...
Offset
Orange Horizon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Orange Horizon- The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco...
Oil, Canvas
$1,648Sale Price|20% Off
Snow-Covered Central Park, New York City, Black-and-White Fine Art Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 18081 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Corpheum XVII - contemporary, geometric abstract, Corten steel outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, geometric abstract, Corten steel outdoor sculpture is by Quebec artist Claude Millette. Millette has been creating compelling sculptures for more than four decades...
Steel
$3,880Sale Price|20% Off
"Recitals, Signed Mixed Media Print, Abstract Color Collage Design, 38x20"
By Sam Gilliam
Located in Union City, NJ
RECITALS is mixed media limited edition print by the renowned African American artist Sam Gilliam, created using Archival Inkjet, Relief, and Stencil techniques. This vertical, rainb...
Mixed Media
$2,930Sale Price|20% Off
Lavender Field with Tree Panorama, black and white photography, art landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21213 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,518
One Way Panorama Study 1, Black and White Fine Art Photography, Florida, USA
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11769 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$130,483
Monumental Bull I by Pierre Yermia - Animal Art, Outdoor Sculpture, Bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Monumental Bull I is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 197 × 250 × 120 cm (77.6 × 98.4 × 47.2 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered,...
Bronze
Neighborhood
Located in Atlanta, GA
"I grew up as the middle of five kids. We would yearly visit my grandmother in Alabama and later in Tennessee. She was an artist and her house was full of paintings, which was format...
Canvas, Oil
$1,648Sale Price|20% Off
Attracted by the Sea, Kannesteinen, Norway - Minimalist Black and White Seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21327 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Titan - contemporary, abstract, totem, bronze, outdoor sculpture
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This tall, blue, green, abstract, totem, bronze, outdoor sculpture was created by Viktor Mitic, a Canadian sculptor known for his inspired work. Intricately designed abstract shapes ...
Bronze
$3,433
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
Cygnus A - contemporary, abstract, bronze, outdoor sculpture
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian sculptor Viktor Mitic looked to the stars for inspiration in creating this striking contemporary sculpture. The elegant and ethereal abstract form of Cygnus A is intended to...
Bronze
Atunbi (Rebirth) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women
By Oluwatimileyin Tega Adegbenjo
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Reborn, renewed, a soul reborn, A life renewed, a path to adorn. Memories of a past life remain, Haunting, yet freeing, like a chain. A new life, a new chance to grow, To learn, to ...
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
$2,472Sale 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
$1,685
Pure Wodaabe by John Kenny. Black and white portrait. Africa. Acrylic Face-Mount
Located in Coltishall, GB
A portrait of a young Wodaabe man from a town called Bororo in Niger. Bororo is often regarded as the ‘capital city’ of his people. The name Bororo is also commonly used to describe ...
C Print
"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
Night Light, Oil Painting
By David Thelen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This contemporary oil painting explores the quiet poetry of interior spaces. With a carefully considered composition and layered brushwork, artist David Thelen ...
Oil
Golden Yellow Orange Sunset in New York, Contemporary Cityscape Painting Framed
Located in Preston, GB
Golden Yellow Orange Sunset in New York, Contemporary Cityscape Painting Framed by British Urban Landscape Artist Angela Wakefield. This original is part of the New York Series, a bo...
Canvas, Linen, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
'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
Glass, Lake Landscape, Figure Standing by Water, Mountains, Sage Green, Yellow
By KK Kozik
Located in Kent, CT
A tall, fair-haired figure wrapped in a light blue towel stands on the bank of inviting, calm water. Dark green trees in a forest, and mountains in the dist...
Linen, Oil
$1,648Sale 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
$425
"Landlocked (Swim with the Fish)", Contemporary Landscape, Mixed Media Print
Located in Franklin, MA
Patty deGrandpre’s “Landlocked (Swim with the Fish)” is a 11 x 16.5 inch unique mixed media print represented on Awagami Bamboo Japanese paper utilizing both printmaking and creative...
Ink, Mixed Media, Gouache, Bamboo Paper, Digital
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
"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
Yoshitomo Nara 'Hazy, Humid Day' Original Exhibition Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b. 1959) Hazy, Humid Day, 2022 Offset lithograph Printed in Japan Official exhibition poster print based on the painting of the same name debuted at the Tai...
Offset
$3,021Sale 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
$4,400
Cloud Study VII - large scale photograph of dramatic cloudscapes in summer sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale original art photography from a series of dramatic cloud atlas and abstract sky scapes observations above the Pacific Ocean Cloud Study VII by Frank Schott 60 x 48 inc...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
$1,098Sale 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
$100Sale Price|20% Off
The Path Home, cyanotype, 6 x 11 in., Ed. 1 of 3, Contemporary Landscape
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Giant oak reach across a shady path in the woods, soft morning light glowing in the distance. These are the woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. The phot...
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
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
A Bigger Book Art Edition 'Untitled, 468' Signed Inkjet Print
Located in Bristol, GB
iPad drawing 8-colour inkjet print on cotton-fiber archival paper, with full margins, with the illustrated 680-page chronology book and stand designed by Marc Newson Contained in the...
Archival Paper, Inkjet
Los Angeles Olympics Poster (Signed)
Located in Manchester, GB
The colour offset lithograph on Parsons Diploma Parchment wove paper. Published in 1982 for the LA Olympic Games in 1984, David Hockney was one of the fifteen artists invited to create a poster for the Games. Hand signed by the artist in pencil lower right, un-numbered from an edition of 750, although there are said to be less than 200 prints in existence. Not to be confused with the unsigned LA Olympics poster...
Offset
Clarice. Contemporary Figurative Painting 40 inches by 24
Located in Brecon, Powys
Acrylic on canvas Signed
Acrylic
Struggle of the strongest
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this work, power appears not as aggression, but as the primordial energy of life. Even in the struggle there is beauty, the birth of the new, the cyclical nature. This is not a ba...
Canvas, Acrylic
$25,753
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
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
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ilia Menabde - Sunny Day in My Village
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on cardboard Ilia Menabde is a Georgian painter born in 2003 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. His practice explores the relationship between memory, time, place, and con...
Oil, Cardboard
Move Like Water, Contemporary Oil on Canvas, Framed, 21st Century
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Ocean, shore, water, movement, neutrals. 41 x 41" oil on canvas, maple frame Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas. ...
Canvas, Wood, Oil
$2,500
Eridanus
By Beth Moon
Located in Sante Fe, NM
As night falls over the Makgadikgadi Pans, giant trees stand starkly against the horizon. Leafless branches reach for the light. On the opposite side of the sky, Earth’s shadow is ri...
Archival Pigment
$1,648Sale 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
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
$1,648Sale Price|20% Off
Relaxing Point Study 1, Minimalist Black-and-White Fine Art Photography, France
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21136 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,563Sale Price|20% Off
Wave Watcher Study 1 – Minimalist Colour Beach Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21278 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
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
Mini-Caryatid Bronze Sculpture, Contemporary, Signed, Edition of 9500
Located in Roma, IT
Nickel Plated 24 Element Puzzle Sculpture, 1968-1969, realized by Miguel Berrocal. Signature and number engraved. Edition of 9500 pieces. Ref. Catalogo General/Obras Recientes,197...
Bronze
$67,301
Psyche by Franck K - Stainless steel sculpture, outdoor, reflections, painted
By Franck K
Located in Paris, FR
Psyche is a unique mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture on a concrete base by contemporary artist Franck K, dimensions including the base are 300 × 170 × 80 cm (118.1 × 66.9 × 3...
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Manhattan Henge New York City Dramatic Sunset by British Urban Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Manhattan Henge New York City Dramatic Sunset by British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Painted using strong blue, red and yellow primary colours, this striking original f...
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
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
$8,091Sale Price|25% Off
Horseplay, Giclée Print, Contemporary Art, Signed Edition of 33, Framed
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst Horseplay, 2026 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks. Hand-stretched over FSC-cer...
Giclée
$1,648Sale 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
Dancer “Attraction” II by Yann Guillon - Contemporary Bronze sculpture
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Danseur Attirance II is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 35 × 23 × 9 cm (13.8 × 9.1 × 3.5 in). Height of the sculpture with the metal base: 51 c...
Bronze
$2,747Sale Price|20% Off
Row of Trees in Yellow Field Panorama - Large-Scale Minimalist Colour Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26001 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Grace Weaver – Untitled Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
Grace Weaver (American, b. 1989) Untitled, 2024 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Dimensions: 69 × 57 cm (27 1/5 × 22 2/5 in) Edition of 30: Hand-signed and numbered Condition: Excellent
Lithograph
$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
$2,060
Black Stone Beach, Madeira, Portugal, Monochrome Seascape Photograph, Limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 21082 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment