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.
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Style: Contemporary
Hope Echoes
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
More Please - Figurative Mouse Painting on Paper
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, Color Pencil, Acrylic
Rose & Ripple, original painting, abstract, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Mixed Media Painting on Canvas. This abstract painting is a celebration of energy, passion, and bold creativity. The theme is based on vibrant colours of red, orange, pink, and green...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Casablanca Iconic Scene
Located in Austin, TX
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her and her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt...
Category
1940s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Plate No. 143 - Landscape, Portrait, Print, Autumn, Winter, Snow
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
Giclée print on Archival Matte Paper with Archival Pigment Ink.
In 2017 she w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
Garden Spirit no. 17, original painting, contemporary, abstract, portrait
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting by Agnese Negriba. Female figure is depicted in a reclining position and is enjoying a moment of contemplation and relaxation in a fragrant and blooming space. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Rondo (Blue and Yellow) - Contemporary Art, Artist Plate
Located in London, GB
Rondo (Blue and Yellow) (1965) by Carmen Herrera - Artist Plate
Fine Bone China
Edition of 250
Printed signature and edition details on verso
comes wit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic
Can a Phone Call Change Your Life?, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A solitary patron in a bar abandons his untouched drink and heads to a phone booth, carrying crucial papers in hand. The cigarette he leaves behind continues ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Tree in golden Grass, USA, limited edition photograph, monochrome landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Single tree in Golden Field, California, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
100% Art Plate
Located in London, GB
Fine bone china
21 cm in diameter
On the reverse is the classic Grayson Perry stamp, depicting the Crown, Anchor and 'W'. This is his pottery hallmark.
This work was developed in c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic
Autumn Drift (The Last Picture Show) - Polaroid, analog, landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Autumn Drift (The Last Picture Show) 2005
20x20cm,
Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and signature label.
Artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"The Wait" 2020 signed original limited edition silkscreen 12x18in abstract
By Ray Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Ray Smith (United States, 1959)
'La Espera', 2020
Silkscreen on paper. Edition of 50
11.7 x 17.8 in. (29.5 x 45 cm.)
Ref: SMI-101
Ray Smith (American, b.1959) Born in Brownsville, T...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Screen
Bull Pocket Painting, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bull 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 still life pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Chick Close Self Portrait hand signed Vintage Screen-print
By Chuck Close
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This signed and numbered self-portrait by acclaimed artist Chuck Close is a striking piece created to benefit the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Known for his me...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Abandoned Cars, junkyard, California, USA, black and white landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Classic US car in a junkyard in California, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
NOAH MEANS - A NEW DAY 1985 Lithograph Art Poster, Black Women, Purple, Green
Located in Union City, NJ
ROMARE BEARDEN
NOAH MEANS - A NEW DAY
Year published - 1985
Commemorative Poster - Hofstra University - Noah Program
Poster size - 34.5 x 21 inches, unframed, unsigned
NOAH MEANS -...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Not my shadow - 21st century Contemporary landscape Painting of a landscape
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Marein Konijn
Not my shadow
10 x 10 cm (Framed, included in price 15 x 15 cm)
Large monumental landscapes without color, small landscapes with countless shades of green, figurative ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Guoqiang Ning Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Snow Mountain"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Snow Mountain
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23.5 x 23.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bayou Teche
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Bayou Teche
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 16" x 20"
Framed Dimensions: 21.5" x 25.5"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Cy Twombly Exhibition Leaflet - Galleria La Tartaruga 1960
By (after) Cy Twombly
Located in Roma, IT
Ultra rare and precious exhibition leaflet of Cy Twombly's Exhibition at Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, 1960. Lithograph on ivory colored cardboard.
Invitation of the American master exhibition at the La Tartaruga Gallery in Rome from the 26th April 1960.
Dimensions closed: cm. 15x17.5.
The cover is an original lithograph after Cy Twombly...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Favola - Soft, dreamy abstract landscape painting
Located in Broomfield, CO
Mothers don't have favorite children, right? Painters don't have favorite paintings, no? Every single painting I offer up to the world touches me and is a piece I would hang in the c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
1 Stefanie Schneider's Mini 'Male Nude' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
1 Stefanie Schneider Mini 'Male Nude' - 1999 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Digital Color Photographs based on a Polaroid.
Polaroid sized open Editions 1999-2016
10.7 x 8.8cm...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Arbus, Composition, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
By Diane Arbus
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. Published by Unite...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Stragglers- 21st Century Contemporary Mountain Landscape Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Dutch Painter Michiel Schrijver lives and works in the center of the Netherlands.
The paintings originate from his memory. The first step is to mak...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rattle my Heart - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rattle your Heart - 2024 -
40x48cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-12.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Point of Entry, Canal Grande, Venice - Limited Photograph by Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 20. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to ord...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sameness, 150x100cm, oil on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
In my paintings, I chose the main character
Gestalt wooden figurine of a man)
and trying to "animate"
his\her
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paste, Canvas, Oil
Iron Drops - Oil On Canvas by Tommaso Cascella - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Iron Drops (Gocce di ferro) is a contemporary artwork realized by Tommaso Cascella in 1991.
Mixed media painting (oil painting on rough canvas; copper inserts and base).
Hand signe...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Madeira Peaks, Sunrise, Shadow Mountains, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art 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 Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Raquel Welch 1966 LIFETIME silver gelatin b/w photograph
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
BANKSY ONE CUT Cut Commander (Record)
By Banksy
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Onecut
Cut Commander
Hombré – MEX 006
Vinyl, 12", EP
Cover art design: Banksy
Released in 1998,
Printed with “Cover and title art by Banksy” on back cover as well.
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color
Large Shelf Still Life
By Jonas Wood
Located in Manchester, GB
Jonas Wood, Large Shelf Still Life, 2017
Limited edition offset lithograph print In colour on wove paper by American contemporary visual artist Jonas Wood titled “Large Shelf Still ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beach Huts Panorama, black and white photograph, landscape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art panorama - landscape photography. Beach Huts, Panorama, Pier, Runner, France. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Monkey - Lithograph by Alberto Mastroianni - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Monkey is an original artwork realized by Alberto Mastroianni in 1970 ca.
Lithograph.
Hand Signed.
Edition of 150 pieces.
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of Boxing legend Muhammad Ali smiling with Malcolm X at an event.
In 1962, Ali met Malcolm X, who soon became his spiritual and political mentor. Ali first met Malcol...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Limones II. From The Bodegones still life color photography series
By Dora Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The bodegones are a pictorial interpretation based on a research project of the famous chef Juan Carlos Franco, on old food recipes of different periods ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Cows on the foggy Pasture, misty forest, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Fairy forest of madeira in the fog with cows and crooked trees, Fanal, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 8. Signed, tit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment
Landscape , Contemporary Paint on Cotton Canvas , Art By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Title: Landscape
Year: 2024
Technique: mixed media on Cotton Canvas
100x105 cm
Description:
This original work by Marilina Marchica explores the relationship between man, nature...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel
"green occupied 7" Suggestion of Greenery and Architecture in Abstract Cityscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "green occupied 7" is an original artwork by Miriam Singer and is made of pencil, marker, and acrylic on paper. The artist spends her free time biking around the ci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Ryewater Farm diptych left Panel, Original Painting, Landscape, Nature, Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
This is the left panel of what was originally a diptych, hence the name, but the right panel is no longer available. A new right panel will be made shortly. This painting in delicate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Sweetie Pie, Cyanotype, Flowers, Floral, Blue, Botanical, Work on Paper
Located in Riverdale, NY
Sweetie Pie is a Cyanotype by Cynthia MacCollum. It is 30x22 on archival paper. It is currently unframed. It is a beautiful botanical artwork filled with a range of blues. MacColl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
'Hamptons' Unique Painting
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
Hamptons’ is a signature gestural bunny painting by Hunt Slonem. The gestural bunny can be found throughout Slonem’s Neo-expressionist body of work. The background of the painting is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
160.07.11 by Klaus Kampert (Tribute to Modigliani series) - nude photography
Located in Paris, FR
160.07.11 is a limited-edition black & white photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert from the series entitled Tribute to Modigliani. In this series, Klaus Kampert pays tribut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
SCUDS
By Tom Huck
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tom Huck
SCUDS
Year: 2011
Woodcut from 2 blocks
Edition: 36
Paper: German Etching
Paper Size: 39.5 x 23 inches
Image Size: 35 x 19 inches
Signed and numbered by hand
COA provided
To...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Woodcut
Hypnosis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Drowned Island, Scotland, black and white landscape, limited edition photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Trees on a small island in the flooding meadow in Scotland. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Floral Invention #8 - Abstract Painting - Modern Art By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A floral, but instead of a vase it finds itself in a jungle setting. Rich reds weave amongst the large green leaves and white flowers creating fullness for this tropical jungle
Flor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Die
By GIFC
Located in Kansas City, MO
GIFC
Title: Die
Year: 2017
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Size: 11 x 8.5 inches
Signed and dated by the artist
COA provided
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Massimo Listri, Palazzo Borromeo II, Isola Bella
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Borromeo II, Isola Bella, 2018
C print
120 x 150 cm
edition 3 of 5
Signed and numbered on the verso label
The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Enchanted Forest
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Enchanted Forest" captures the dual nature of our deepest emotions, a symbolic landscape that draws us in with its beauty and yet instills a sense of caution. This piece is a metaph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Acrylic
Cups III (Suburbia) Contemporary, Polaroid, Analog, Color, Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Cups III (Suburbia) - 2004
50x60cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on verso with Certificate,
Artist inventory number: 2913.
Not mounted.
This pro...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Pavillon de Flore, Tree Avenue, Louvre, monochrome photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Way through the tree avenue to the Pavillon de Flore at the Louvre in Paris, France. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Just Snowboarders - Three Dimensional Textural Winter Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Langreiter’s "Just Snowboarders" is a vibrant and playful textured mixed-media artwork that brings the energy and thrill of snowboarding...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Wooden Boat House Panorama, Austria, black and white art waterscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of auth...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jimi Hendrix Palm Trees - Contemporary, Landscape, Polaroid, Photograph, Expired
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Jimi Hendrix Palm Trees' (Stranger than Paradise) - 2016
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label,
Not mounted.
"Jimi He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Portrait of Michele - Nickel Plated Sculpture by M. Berrocal - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait de Michéle -Opus 110, is realized by Miguel Berrocal (Villanueva De Algaidas 1933 - Antequera 2006), in 1969.
Multiple sculpture in nickel-plated Zamak dismountable into 17...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Wall 24-1- White porcelain abstract geometric organic style mural sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Artists Statement:
My interest is in exploring ways of building structural forms in ceramics. Many ideas for the forms come from architecture while the inherent organic quality of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Porcelain
Point de vue Panorama, Giant Rock, black and white landscape photograph, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Giant rocks on the sandy beach of the Atlantic coast in France. Archival pigment ink print as part of a lim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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.
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