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
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
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
Surreal Moment, Cliffs, Island, Scotland, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine Art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography print. The Cliffs of Scotland during a storm with a small island. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 15....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Victorias Secret, Empire State Building, New York City, black & white photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity includ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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
Black Rage, Conceptual and Black Art print with COA signed by Glenn Ligon Framed
By Glenn Ligon
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
Elegant Movements 194 - contemporary, abstract, forged stainless steel sculpture
By Kevin Robb
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
SAVING SALVADOR - Original Framed Artwork
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
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'Saving Salvador' by Laura Mass is a flip portrait of the one and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
"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
"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
"Sunset Soiree, a Sunset Walk" woman donning baskets walking into sunset
By Janice Frame
Located in Edgartown, MA
"As an African-American artist in today’s world, I embody the vast differences found in our collective backgrounds. I view them as cultural assets. We are always self discovering and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Board
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
Stars 3, 2014 - Limited Edition Digital C-Print Photograph on Fuji Paper
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Stars 3 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available in this size from a Limited Edition of 7 + 2 Artist Proofs.
Ellie has been working in the forests of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, C Print
Untitled (self portrait) By Billy Childish
Located in London, GB
Untitled (self portrait)
By Billy Childish
Billy Childish is a British artist, musician, and writer known for his raw, energetic, and often provocative approach to art and culture....
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital, Paper
Amancio Man Boat ."el hombre y el mar·". original sculpture iron bronze
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Sculpture by the Spanish artist AMANCIO GONZALEZ
Artist well known for his large format works on the street.
Iron and bronze. 7 copies
AMANCIO Gonzalez ( Leon 1965 )
Amancio Gonzále...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Illumination, mountain lake, black and white long exposure landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Long Exposure Waterscape - Landscape Photography. Amazing landscape photo with beautiful lighting of mountains with lake at sunrise. Archival pigment ink pri...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Harness Racing, lonely beach, black and white photograph, limited landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art minimalist landscape photography. Harness racer on deserted beach in Normandy, France. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gera...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Silver Hand.
By Dora Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Each image by photographer Dora Franco is accompanied by a detailed, visual description of the moment, light, and colors of the scene. Franco always observes how light touches thing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
Hot Air Balloon, Championship, minimalist 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 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Night Pueblo, black & white, landscape, lithograph Dan Namingha Hopi
By Dan Namingha
Located in Santa Fe, NM
hand pulled lithograph edition 100
signed and numbered by the artist
unframed
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Nevaeh - Original Silver Leaf Floral 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
Gathering Clouds, Casoli, Abruzzo, Italy
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Abruzzo, located in southern Italy, is known as the ‘green region of Europe’ because of the system of parks and nature reserves covering more than one-third of its territory. It has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fremont East District, Las Vegas, USA, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital 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
City Lights - large scale photograph of the light reflections at Night
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large scale original art photography from a series of dramatic abstract observations of City Lights and Reflections
City Lights by Frank Schott (2023)
40 x 30 inches / 102cm x 76cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
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
Daniel Arsham, Heinz Tomato Soup Can, 2019
Located in Manchester, GB
Daniel Arsham, Heinz Tomato Soup, 2019
Ltd edition of 3,000
Excellent Condition
4 1/4 × 3 × 3 in (10.8 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
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
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
Stabile by Franck K - Painted stainless steel sculpture, outdoor, colourful
Located in Paris, FR
Stabile is a unique painted stainless steel stabile and base sculpture by contemporary artist Franck K, dimensions are 250 × 200 × 200 cm (98.4 × 78.7 × 78.7 in).
The sculpture is s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Scorpio, zodiac digital collage print, surreal, astrology, metallic gold edge
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Scorpio, digital collage print, zodiac, surreal figurative, astrology, metallic gold edge, on glossy heavy card stock with pink art deco design on reverse
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
5 Abstracted Figures, Acrylic on Canvas, Heatwave by Rebecca Jack
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack
"Heatwave"
Acrylic on Canvas
48 x 80 in.
__________________________
Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works that highlight the beauty of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Greeting - surrealist, abstract, figurative, male, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This indoor figurative bronze sculpture is made by Canadian artist Roch Smith.
The imaginative sculptural work of Roch Smith often takes a playful approach to more serious themes. H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men on Beach, Painting by Mark Beard
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men on Beach is a painting by the artist Mark Beard which depicts two men in speedos standing on a beach.
n.d.
Signed i...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Mini Glass Water Bag - Hyperreal glass sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal mini water bag glass sculpture - solid and hollow glass by Dylan Martinez.
Martinez's hyperreal sculptures are hot sculpted glass hand-molded entirely by the artist. The p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
"Water Shell", Abstract Ceramic Sculpture with Dynamic Composition, Porcelain
By Aya Mori
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
Early Marks No. 4
Located in Columbia, MO
Lita Kenyon was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. She attended Columbia College for her BFA, and earned her MA from Northern Illinois University 1982. She’s been featured in Empty Mirror...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Charcoal, Wood Panel, Archival Paper, Acrylic
Peter Andrew Lusztyk - Alabama Highway, Photography 2020, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Alabama Highway
Digital C-Print / Archival Pigment Print
Available sizes:
40 x 60 in - Edition of 10
60 x 90 in - Edition of 5
Locations from around the world.
This photograph will...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Digital, Pigment, Digital Pigment
The Rose 7
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: The Rose 7
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 26" x 22"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
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
The Bridges of Venice, Italy, black and white, fine art cityscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Bridge on a quiet morning in a small canal in Venice, Italy. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge, Tower, San Francisco, monochrome cityscape, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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
Assembly - soft, landscape, forest, contemporary, acrylic and resin on panel
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This romantic painting from the Berlin studio of acclaimed Canadian painter Peter Hoffer is lush, rich with color, and has the surrealism of being in the interior of the forest. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Resin, Wood Panel
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
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
Another world - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Another world - 2021
50x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1076.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Cherry Trees and Dark Sky, Austria, black and white, art photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Landscape Photography. Row of trees at the field with big clouds, Weinviertel, Austria. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Church - Etching by Giovanni Stradone - Mid-20th Century
By Giovanni Stradone
Located in Roma, IT
Church is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Stradone in the mid-20th century
Black and white etching
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin
Edition of 19/70
Includes frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching
"Visions of the Metropolis #4" - Original Surrealist Oil on Canvas 1996
Located in Soquel, CA
"Visions of the Metropolis #4" - Original Surrealist, Oil on Canvas 1996
Original oil painting from Bay Area artist Travis Flack (American, 20th Century) from the series "Visions of...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Crystalized Pikachu
Located in London, GB
Cast resin and aluminium oxide
13 × 6 in 33 × 15.2 cm
Edition of 500
Holographic artist sticker, with edition number on the box is the COA.
The "Blue Crystalized Pikachu" exemplifi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin
Gaze Big Green - large, colorful, geometric abstract, contemporary oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Geometric passages in painterly red-orange frame a central green field in this bold abstract painting by David Sorensen. Through his painterly modern compositions, celebrated Canadian painter David Sorensen (1937-2011) sought to “give voice to the inner reality.” In the paintings from his last years, Sorensen offers solutions to the nature of abstraction – wresting nature and the horizon from pure form and brilliant colour.
Born in Vancouver, Sorensen studied at UBC and the Vancouver School of Art under Arthur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golling Falls, Waterfall, Landscape, Limited Edition, monochrome fine art print
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
Digital Pigment
Storms - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Storms- 2024 -
25x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-32.
Not mounted....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
FAMILY IN BLUE Signed Lithograph, Black Family Portrait, Azure Blue, Warm Brown
By Geoffrey Holder
Located in Union City, NJ
FAMILY IN BLUE is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the Trinidadian-American artist, Geoffrey Holder an actor, dancer, choreographer...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
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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