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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
Rocks on the Shore, Great Rock, Sand Beach, color photograph, limited edition
Rocks on the Shore, Great Rock, Sand Beach, color photograph, limited edition

Rocks on the Shore, Great Rock, Sand Beach, color photograph, limited edition

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Color 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 on Hahnemu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Quiet Companion No. 1
Quiet Companion No. 1

Quiet Companion No. 1

Located in Zofingen, AG

Series: Quiet Companions A quiet, grounded image of a dog composed of soft color segments in a restrained neutral palette. The warm ivory background and muted antique gold create a s...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Werner Bronkhorst - Tiebreak
Werner Bronkhorst - Tiebreak

Werner Bronkhorst - Tiebreak

Located in London, GB

Werner Bronkhorst TieBreak, 2025 Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photorag paper with ready-to-hang heavyweight solid oak frame. From the artist's acclaimed Wimbledon series. Accompanied b...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Blazing (Glass sculpture - Pineapple sculpture)
Blazing (Glass sculpture - Pineapple sculpture)

Blazing (Glass sculpture - Pineapple sculpture)

By Layne Rowe

Located in Manchester, GB

Layne Rowe, Blazing, 2024 Freeblown glass H48 x W20 x D20 cm (18.9 x 7.9 x 7.9 in) Original artwork The pineapple sculpture is a profound symbol of hospitality and generosity. The ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Blown Glass

Dove’s Dream . Series "Vibrations of the Earth"
Dove’s Dream . Series "Vibrations of the Earth"

Dove’s Dream . Series "Vibrations of the Earth"

Located in Zofingen, AG

"Dove’s Dream" is a delicate, almost translucent composition that captures a state of complete trust in the world. The central figure — a sleeping bird nestled in a nest of warm oran...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pointing the Way, Wavebreaker, Scotland, black and white photography, landscape
Pointing the Way, Wavebreaker, Scotland, black and white photography, landscape

Pointing the Way, Wavebreaker, Scotland, black and white photography, landscape

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape photography. A wooden wave breaker extending into a calm body of water, with a circular marker at the end. Archival pigment ink print a...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Kerry James Marshall - Keeping the Culture, silkscreen and linocut, Signed/N
Kerry James Marshall - Keeping the Culture, silkscreen and linocut, Signed/N

Kerry James Marshall - Keeping the Culture, silkscreen and linocut, Signed/N

By Kerry James Marshall

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...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Pencil, Linocut, Screen

"Home Plate 14" Figurative Sculpture by Lauren Rinaldi
"Home Plate 14" Figurative Sculpture by Lauren Rinaldi

"Home Plate 14" Figurative Sculpture by Lauren Rinaldi

By Lauren Rinaldi

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Home Plate 14" is an original artwork made from oil paint and acrylic on panel by Lauren Rinaldi. This piece is freestanding and measures approx. 7.25"h x 2.5"w x ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Ewa Ola (Beauty of Nobility -21st Century, Figurative, Mixed Media, Africa Women
Ewa Ola (Beauty of Nobility -21st Century, Figurative, Mixed Media, Africa Women

Ewa Ola (Beauty of Nobility -21st Century, Figurative, Mixed Media, Africa Women

By Bakare Abubakri-sideeq Babatunde

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Ewa Ọlà (Beauty of Nobility) is a tribute to the strength and quiet confidence found in many African women. She sits calmly, but there’s power in her presence, a kind of beauty that ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Amazon framed giclee Paula Craioveanu 3/20
Amazon framed giclee Paula Craioveanu 3/20

Amazon framed giclee Paula Craioveanu 3/20

By Paula Craioveanu

Located in Forest Hills, NY

“ Amazon “ giclee print On Hahnemuhle paper, edition 3 of 20 Artist Statement "I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These s...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Beach Rock Panorama, Shoreline, France, Seascape, Landscape, Limited Edition
Beach Rock Panorama, Shoreline, France, Seascape, Landscape, Limited Edition

Beach Rock Panorama, Shoreline, France, Seascape, Landscape, Limited Edition

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist beach seascape. A rocky shoreline with a large prominent rock formation in the water. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Bananekürbis. Still life Painting
Bananekürbis. Still life Painting

Bananekürbis. Still life Painting

By Christopher T Terry

Located in Miami Beach, FL

When an artist works with more conventional still life subjects, they focus primarily on the formal properties of the painting, such as color relationships, form, proportions, and ot...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees
Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees

Topiary II - large format photograph of ornamental shaped sidewalk trees

By Frank Schott

Located in San Francisco, CA

large scale photogaph from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and whimsical botanical art of topiaries' green minimalism TOPIARY II by Fran...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Flora Italiana ( Anemone Rosso ) - large format botanical still life photograph
Flora Italiana ( Anemone Rosso ) - large format botanical still life photograph

Flora Italiana ( Anemone Rosso ) - large format botanical still life photograph

By Linda Rosewall

Located in San Francisco, CA

Original large format botanical still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's botany study series "Flora Italiana", an intensively beautiful body of works...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Pedal Boat - Lake Balaton - color photography - landscape - limited edition
Pedal Boat - Lake Balaton - color photography - landscape - limited edition

Pedal Boat - Lake Balaton - color photography - landscape - limited edition

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Gerald Berghammer - Color Long Exposure Waterscape Photography. Colorful pedal boats floating in calm water under a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited editi...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Bearden 'School Bell Time' Serigraph African American
Bearden 'School Bell Time' Serigraph African American

Bearden 'School Bell Time' Serigraph African American

By Romare Bearden

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This reproduction of Romare Bearden's School Bell Time has been officially approved and numbered by the Bearden Foundation, with the foundation's seal printed in the lower right-hand...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Ada - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
Ada - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork

Ada - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork

By Sally K

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Werner Bronkhorst - Birdie Chance

Werner Bronkhorst - Birdie Chance

Located in London, GB

Werner Bronkhorst, Birdie Chance, 2025 Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks. Hand-stretched over F...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Shepherd-'Roland Garros French Open' 2007 Vintage
Shepherd-'Roland Garros French Open' 2007 Vintage

Shepherd-'Roland Garros French Open' 2007 Vintage

By Kate Shepherd

Located in Brooklyn, NY

In 2007, Kate Shepherd, an American artist celebrated for her precise line work and bold color fields, was commissioned to design the official poster for the Roland Garros French Ope...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Shiver - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century

Shiver - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century

By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Sugar on my soul - 2021 - 24x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2021-1053. ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Monte Amiata I, Milan - Color Blocking Architecture Photograph
Monte Amiata I, Milan - Color Blocking Architecture Photograph

Monte Amiata I, Milan - Color Blocking Architecture Photograph

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

'Monte Amiata I', photographed in February 2020 for his ongoing series 'A Short History of Milan'. There is a reoccurring linear, structural theme throughout the series, capturing t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Paws and Stripes - Wild Cat Portrait Mixed Media Warm Tone Painting on Paper
Paws and Stripes - Wild Cat Portrait Mixed Media Warm Tone Painting on Paper

Paws and Stripes - Wild Cat Portrait Mixed Media Warm Tone Painting on Paper

By Kellie Newsome

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Columbus, Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and expressive animal portraits that radiate vitality and personality. Her unique style combines abstracted forms...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Quantum Leap 4
Quantum Leap 4

Quantum Leap 4

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Denver, CO

This double-bunny painting is an excellent example of Hunt Slonem's art practice, set in a frame hand chosen by Hunt himself. Hunt Slonem's artistic trajectory has always been chara...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood

1972 Porsche 911 Targa, 2020

1972 Porsche 911 Targa, 2020

By Nick Veasey

Located in München, BY

Edition 15, framed Chromaluxe Original 1972 Porsche 911 Targa A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside. Nick’s work with radiograph...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Pink Chiffon" Contemporary Landscape Painting
"Pink Chiffon" Contemporary Landscape Painting

"Pink Chiffon" Contemporary Landscape Painting

By Carol Young

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

Sensory Experience - original large nude art by Paula Craioveanu  39x27.5in
Sensory Experience - original large nude art by Paula Craioveanu  39x27.5in

Sensory Experience - original large nude art by Paula Craioveanu 39x27.5in

By Paula Craioveanu

Located in Forest Hills, NY

"Sensory Experience", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series. Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube, from Florida, US. See 1stDibs free shipping offer FREESHIP Artist Statement "I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now. As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space. My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair. Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Tempera, Pencil, Paper

Ballad (Bombay Beach) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women

Ballad (Bombay Beach) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Women

By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Ballad (Bombay Beach) - 2023 40x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist inventory PL2023-08. N...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

GOING TO CHURCH Signed Lithograph, Southern Landscape, African American Heritage
GOING TO CHURCH Signed Lithograph, Southern Landscape, African American Heritage

GOING TO CHURCH Signed Lithograph, Southern Landscape, African American Heritage

By William Tolliver

Located in Union City, NJ

GOING TO CHURCH is an original hand drawn lithograph (not a photo reproduction or digital print) printed on archival printmaking paper 100% acid free, using hand lithography techniqu...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Leopard Moth

Leopard Moth

By Kate Breakey

Located in Sante Fe, NM

For me, an artistic process is an act of investigation – a passionate attempt to establish an understanding of the natural world – a version that incorporates both intellectual and e...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Pastel, Pencil, Archival Pigment

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.