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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
Ponder - Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Nude, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Ponder - 2019 20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL219-673. N...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Black and White, C Print, Polaroid

Veranda
Located in Zofingen, AG
The veranda - the morning light, the silence and the feeling of absolute happiness, it's a special kind of zen that reminds me of my childhood when I used to step on the wooden floor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ancient Laurisilva Forest, bent Tree, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography print. Bent tree in fog in the fairy forest on the island of Madeira, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, title...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Waterfall, Ireland, black and white photograph, limited edition print, landscape
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 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Large Landscape Tree Nature Wildlife Photograph India Orange Green Yellow Forest
Located in Norfolk, GB
Aditya Dicky Singh, Untitled, Infrared photograph on fine-art Hahnemuhle archival paper, 64" x 42.7" *please note this artwork can be printed at any size so long as the ratio r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Fishing in the Itaya River
Located in Paris, FR
Fishing in the Itaya River is a painting by contemporary Spanish artist Calo Carratalá from the “Jungle” series. It represents two fishermen on the Itaya river in Peru. In the series...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Memories of Love III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signatur...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Glacial Stream, Iceland, long exposure, landscape photograph, limited edition
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

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Utopia
Located in Bristol, GB
Inkjet, glaze and foil block on Hahnemuhle photo rag satin paper Edition of 55 69 x 83 cm (27.2 x 32.7 in) (87.6 x 102.3 cm / 34.5 x 40.3 in) Signed and numbered on the front Conditi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Later
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Maggie Taylor creates evocative single-scene narratives in her whimsical and often elaborate photomontages. Working intuitively, Taylor combines 19th Century photographs, found objec...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Swan Dive (Aqua Culture Series)
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold and bright painting of a diver by Marc Foster Grant (American, b. 1947). Signed "Grant 2007" in the lower right corner. Presented in a simple sl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Laid Paper

"Fils: The Waves Whisper Secrets" Embroidered Abstract Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Fils: The Waves Whisper Secrets" is a framed mixed media work on canvas by Raul de la Torre, with vertical stripes of dripping paint in bright colors and embroidered organic shapes....
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Thread

Hutch 7 Bunnies
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Hutch 7 Bunnies Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 23.5" x 31.5" Framed Dimensions: 35" x 33" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Unique
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

The Currency Unique Prints H11-743
Located in Manchester, GB
Damien Hirst, The Currency Unique Prints H11-743, 2022 Archival Quality Giclée Reproduction on Heavy Weight Enhanced Matte Professional Stock 100 x 1...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Buongiorno Professore! - Mixed Media by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Pastel and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Very good condition. Hand signed in pencil lower right. Includes a contemporary wooden frame 108.5x84....
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Pastel, Watercolor

Serene, female nude linocut by Fernando Reyes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered linocut, from the Sensual Line series of 4 male and female nudes. Reyes attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he received a Bachelor of Fine...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Linocut

Virgo, 2018, collage, print, figurative, gold, tarot, horoscope, metallic edge
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Virgo, 2018, collage, print, figurative, gold, tarot, horoscope, metallic gold edge, on glossy heavy card stock with pink design on reverse.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital

Expressionist Portrait Oil Painting "Woman Seated in Yellow Armchair"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, abstracted portrait oil painting on stretched Belgian linen canvas, ready to hang. Framing options available on request.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

SWEETGRASS CARRIERS Signed Lithograph, Black Farmer Lowcountry Geechee Gullah
Located in Union City, NJ
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the renowned American artist JONATHAN...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Splash Of White - 5"x5" - Artwork On Paper, Delicate Flowers, Botanical Art
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
Splash Of White - This original artwork on watercolour paper captures a loose, expressive arrangement of delicate white flowers in a glass vase. Layering of acrylic and oil pastel wi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Chenille Variegated - Original Sculptural Copper-Tone Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal, Copper

Symbiotic Growth - Floral Abstract Painting By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Symbiotic Growth - Floral Abstract Painting By Marc Zimmerman Cool rhythms flow in and around each other in a lively supported composition.Just at the right place a hot accent colo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gloriette, Schloss Schoenbrunn, Vienna, black and white photograph, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography print. The Gloriette is a Viennese landmark in the park of Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria. Archival pigment ink print, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Haybales, Late Summer Landscape Collection Pocket Series, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Haybales, Late Summer, Landscape Collection is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Esplanade, Beach, France, black and white photograph, limited edition landscape
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

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Broadway- 21 st Century Contemporary Painting of the city New York (USA)
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Gineke Zikken Broadway 115 x 100 cm Oil on canvas ( not framed but if you would like a frame, please contact us) Gineke Zikken likes to paint everywhere she goes. This painting she...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Neon Valley - Abstract Colorful Original Landscape Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elisabeth Grace, a visionary artist based in Denver, CO (USA), is renowned for her immersive large-scale paintings, collages, murals, and installation art. With a BA in oil painting ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Canvas

A La Mode (Fashionable)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Fashion is a term that is given to enhancing the personal style of clothing. People these days no longer want to dress up casually but they want to add an element of fashion in their...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Purple Flowers in a Bouquet
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph in colours, on smooth wove paper Edition of 300 71 cm (D) (28 in) Signed and numbered on front Artwork in excellent condition. Only visible under raking lighting mi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Foggy Morning, single Tree, black & white gelatin silver art photography, framed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited Edition 3/9 Silver Gelatin Prints, Selenium Toned, Printed 2019 Signed, numbered, dated by Artis. Handmade wood frame, da...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Reflections on Water - tall, colourful, hand-blown glass, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Susan Rankin has captured the luminous colour of water—from pale blue and turquoise to ocean blue in her latest series of garden columns. These hand-blown glass outdoor sculptures ar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Steel

Cows on the foggy Pasture, fairy 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 7. Signed, tit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Push Play" Contemporary Figure on Swing Framed Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Baltimore, MD
“Push Play” is a framed oil on canvas painting by Sherri Belassen, depicting an abstracted figure on a swing. The artist’s technique of applying layers upon layers of paint over expr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil

Ora by Ramon Enrich - Contemporary painting, landscape, architecture, red, vivid
Located in Paris, FR
Ora is a unique acrylic on canvas painting by contemporary artist Ramon Enrich, dimensions are 40 × 30 cm (15.7 × 11.8 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a cer...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Wood Pier, lake, storm, long exposure, black and white, photography, landscape
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

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Water Shell", Abstract Ceramic Sculpture with Dynamic Composition, Porcelain
Located in St. Louis, MO
Aya Mori was born in Aichi Prefecture in Japan in 1989, and lives and work in Aichi. She studied at Aichi University of Education and completed her M.F.A. in 2014 under her mentor, H...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze

June Breeze (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 18 x 36 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual blades of fresh-cut native Californian wild grass. The species of tall marsh grass is called Gray Rus...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Fourth Balloon, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Hot air balloons floating over green hills. Can you find the fourth balloon? :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

FALLING STAR Signed Lithograph Black Woman Portrait, African American Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FALLING STAR is a limited edition color lithograph printed using traditional hand lithography methods on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free, by the renowned African American artist Romare Bearden. FALLING STAR presents a visual memory from Bearden's childhood in Mecklenburg County North Carolina expressed as a modern collage portrait depicting a black woman set in a nostalgic Southern domestic interior. FALLING STAR's main focus is a black woman standing on the right drinking from a blue and white teacup...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Black Rage, Conceptual and Black Art print with COA signed by Glenn Ligon Framed
Located in New York, NY
Renowned contemporary conceptual African American artist Glenn Ligon Black Rage (back cover), 2019 Silkscreen and digital print Accompanied by an official Certificate of Authenticity...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital, Screen

Palm Beach, Palm Tree, Florida, USA, black and white photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mandarinas con Libro. From The Bodegones still life color photography series
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 in history. The photographer ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Frances Swan - Backyard Garden Painting Patterned Quilt Trees Green Grass, 2023
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary, lush garden landscape oil painting on panel, a large, colorful patterned quilt in red, black, pink, white, blue and yellow hangs on a clothesline in front of tr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1968 Saul Steinberg 'Louisiana'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 29 x 21.75 inches ( 73.66 x 55.245 cm ) Image Size: 29 x 21.75 inches ( 73.66 x 55.245 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additi...
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Large Abstract Landscape Acrylic Painting on Canvas "Cross Pollination"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Robertson focuses on creating paintings that move beyond portraying reality. Driven by a synthesis of gestural brushstrokes and expressive smears, he offers viewers a liminal space o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic

Elegant Movements 194 - contemporary, abstract, forged stainless steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
They appear to dance in mid-air. This is Kevin Robb. His graceful, curved abstract sculptures are hand forged from stainless steel. The highly polished surfaces of the three intersec...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

"The Sheriff" Contemporary Black & Grey Toned Western Cowboy Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract figurative painting by Frisco Pete, The Wild West Art Wrangler. The work features a grey toned sheriff figured dressed in a hat peering out of a grove of limble...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Dripping Dots - Lights of Cannes" 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

Gold Leaf

SAVING SALVADOR - Original Framed Artwork
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
*New Year Inventory Renewal Sale - 90 Days Until April 30th* *This Price Won't Be Repeated Again This Year* 'Saving Salvador' by Laura Mass is a flip portrait of the one and...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Rock Fishing, Great Cliffs, black and white landscape photo, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art seascape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 20. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity includ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Nevaeh - Original Silver Leaf Floral Sally K Figurative Artwork
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

Pre-Columbian Series: Uxmal (Verde) - contemporary, modernist, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary abstract painting by David Sorensen explores a green palette. An important Canadian artist David Sorensen first discovered colour field painting in the 1950’s. He...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sargy Mann, Studio with standard lamp
Located in Harkstead, GB
Sargy Mann (1937-2015) Studio with standard lamp Signed, upper right Inscribed with title to the reverse Oil on board 48 x 60 inches Provenance: Cadogan Contemporary Private Collection Exhibited: Sargy Mann and Graham Giles, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, 1991 A truly beautiful work but also highly significant within Sargy's oeuvre. The painting dates to the late 1980s when Sargy and his family were living at 58 Lyndhurst Grove, SE15. Sadly by this time, Sargy's eyesight had greatly deteriorated to ‘“a very little, blurry, peripheral vision” in his left eye, (he was registered blind)....(he) found it a struggle to paint from direct observation and began to rely on short term memory and tape recordings. Working on a large scale, he taped canvas to the living room wall of the family home on Lyndhurst Grove, “rather as Bonnard had pinned primed canvas to his studio wall”’. The space depicted had initially been a dark, depressing attic space but this was transformed by the addition of some French windows. The painting has an almost abstracted quality with the two light sources creating pools of cool, luminescent energy radiating throughout the picture space. Peter Mann describes the paintings from Lyndhurst Grove as, ‘in some sense a precursor to the very late work, The little sitting room paintings...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Boundless Flight I - Original Minimalist Blue Landscape Mountains Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The organic aesthetic and textures of Peter Kuttner’s original boho minimalist artworks are the result of patient layering and unique uses of media. Through a combination of collage ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Mom Rat With Babies - Unique Handmade Glazed Ceramics Sculpture, Animals
Located in Salzburg, AT
The sculpture is signed below. Monika Zadurska-Bielak, Graduated from the studio of Prof. Franciszek Duszeńko at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Acade...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic

Zephyr Monumental SS 2/7 - abstract, polished stainless steel, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Jeremy Guy's new sculpture series are available in Mirror Polished Stainless Steel, Gold Finish or Painted in Black or White. This Zephyr sculpture can be ordered in multiple sizes, ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Rocky Peaks, landscape photograph, limited edition, black and white fine art
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 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Notre Dame, Paris, France, black and white minimalism landscape art photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art minimalist cityscape - landscape photography. Notre Dame Cathedral the soul and the heart of Paris. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled,...
Category

2010s 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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