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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
Le Petit Chien Sur Le Fauteuil (framed hand signed lithograph)
Located in Aventura, FL
Le Petit Chien Sur Le Fauteuil (The Little Dog on the Armchair). Lithograph in colors on paper. Hand signed lower right by Rene Gruau. Hand numbered 139/300 lower left. Sheet siz...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Hengifoss, Waterfall, Iceland, black and white photograph, limited edition 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

Early Morning at the Harbor large format limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Early Morning at the Harbor, Portugal - no. 21322 Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 8. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sidewalk Cafe
Located in London, GB
Sidewalk Cafe, 2016; Giclée print in colours on 350gsm Hahnemühle Museum Etching wove paper signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 295 printed by GTZ Fine Art Editions, New York, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Mainbocher Corset. Paris. Printed later
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This captivating black-and-white photograph, titled Mainbocher Corset by Horst P. Horst, masterfully blends elegance and geometry. The composition features a woman seen from behind, ...
Category

1940s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Sausalito Landscape -- Golden Gate
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge landscape oil painting by Calderon (Spain, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Calderon" lower right. Image size, 30"H...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Row of Trees in Rapeseed Field
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

Digital Pigment

Breakwater Pier Atlantic Coast black and white photograph limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Breakwater Pier Study 1, France - no. 21127 Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Pathfinder 4 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Black Women Face
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Pathfinder is Inspired by portraying the struggles, aspirations, and joys of women in my society, and to encourage viewers to connect with these experiences on a personal and emotion...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Le Yaouanc DLM No. 176 Study 10, 11, 12 Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking triptych lithograph by French artist Jean Le Yaouanc appears in Derrière le Miroir No. 176, published in 1969. The work spans three ...
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

110.01.98 by Klaus Kampert - Dancer Photograph, black & white, male nude
Located in Paris, FR
110.01.98 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Klaus Kampert. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions: *50 cm × 3...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Dream Portal" Extira wood with automotive paint sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Automotive Paint

The Philosophy of Tea - Still Life Landscape Pink Flowers Table Forest, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this landscape oil painting on canvas, a cheerful outdoor scene is set with a still life arrangement of bright pink gladiolus flowers in a clear glass vase beside a smaller orange...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artis cm. 61x46. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo...
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Tempera, Paper

Palm Beach, Palms, Florida, USA, black and white photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Large Format Photography. Palm trees, beach, morning mood, Florida, USA. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by arti...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Place to Linger, Deserted Beach, minimalist landscape, monochrome, limited
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

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ruben. From Searching a Mother Series. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color

BEYOND EARTHS BEAUTY Signed Lithograph Island Landscape Tropical Plants, Beach
By Eileen Seitz
Located in Union City, NJ
BEYOND EARTHS BEAUTY is an original hand drawn lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the American woman artist Eileen Seitz, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper 100% acid free. BEYOND EARTHS BEAUTY depicts a lush, brightly colored island landscape bursting with colorful tropical plants...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pomegranate Ripe Red Pocket Painting 2
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate 2 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 baroq...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

FATHER & SON Signed Lithograph, Horseback Riding Lowcountry SC, Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
FATHER & SON is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the African American artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. FATHER & SON is a beautifully simple composition depicting a refreshing Lowcountry South Carolina landscape...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tree in Lavender Field Panorama, black and white photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography. Single tree in stony lavender field in Provence, France. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Way to Nowhere, Route 66, Street, Arizona, USA
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

Digital Pigment

Dog Walkers On The Beach, Original Painting, Coastal Painting, Beach art
Located in Deddington, GB
I love to paint big skies, particularly on the coast . The blues in this piece are calming and serene, the small figures adding interested scale . This piece is on a deep stretched c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brigitte Bardot with cigar - Spain, 1971 - co signed by Terry O'Neill and Bardot
Located in Chicago, IL
French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "The Ballad of Frenchie King" in Almeria, Spain, 1971 Co signed by Brigitte Bardot and Terry O'Neill 40 x 60 inches Edition Size: 50 +...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

THE LANTERN Hand Signed Lithograph, Collage Portrait, African American Heritage
Located in Union City, NJ
THE LANTERN is an original, handmade limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors from hand drawn lithography plates using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Somerse...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Earth
Located in Dallas, TX
After a tour of duty in the US Navy, Miles Cleveland Goodwin earned a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, in 2007, and eventually returned to coastal Missi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Balance - underwater nude b&w photograph - archival pigment 35 x 24"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white nude photograph of young woman and her reflection in the water surface. Original digital archival pigment print signed by the artist. Limited edition o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Abandoned Hut, desert, California, USA, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Abandoned Study 2, CA, USA - no. 11625 Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certifi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Olympics of Sarajevo - Vintage Poster - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage poster realized after Piero Dorazio in occasion of the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984. Offset print. Good condition.
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Offset

Drowned Island, Scotland, monochrome 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

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Evening Song. Series "Vibrations of the Earth"
Located in Zofingen, AG
In "Evening Song," everything breathes with the warmth of day's end — a gentle light that envelops nature just before nightfall. Two birds, perched among fiery red and golden foliage...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Daffodilly Diptych, Original Painting, Landscape, Nature, Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
A woodland of wild daffodils in Wales, dappled with spring sunshine. The light creates contrasting shades of bright and darker green which is almost turquoise blue in the shadowy spo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Detached Island, Coastline, Black Sand Beach, Iceland
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

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

A Space for Two original blue ultramarine nude by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"A Space for Two", Space for love and passion. Part of "Nude in Interior" series. Original work on colored paper, with blue ultramarine tempera on red colored paper, inspired by Mat...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Tempera

Untitled 5 - Modern Abstract Landscape Painting, Joyful, Colorful
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter. Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Art - Diploma in painting and lithography and obtained a scholar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pink Flamingo Venus
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Pink Flamingo Venus, 2020, watercolor, ink, and salt on Arches paper. Venus of Willendorf, fertility goddess, pink, black, and white.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Hot Air Balloon, Championship, monochrome landscape, limited edition, print
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 Pigment

Blackbird's Egg Greenish Pocket Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Greenish Blackbird's Egg 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 bar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1987 'Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the Beanstalk' Animation Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of the film feature Disney's Mickey Mouse and the Beanstalk, published in 1987, showcases vibrant colors and high-quality printing. Created using offset lithography...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Self Touches #10. Black and White Male Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
All about narcissism. The series, which he started during the exhibition of the Don't Tell Mama photography series at the European Nu Photo Festival (Europeen de la Photo de NU) held...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Woman Abstracted Figure, Palm, Acrylic on Canvas, Desert Oasis by Rebecca Jack
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack "Desert Oasis" Acrylic on Canvas 36 x 60 in. __________________________ Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works that highlight the beaut...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Jungle Mermaid - underwater ocean nude photograph - archival pigment 43" x 63"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This evocative underwater fine art photograph captures a naked woman swimming through a golden kelp forest, creating a dreamlike atmosphere where human and nature intertwine. The ima...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Studio
Located in London, GB
A hand painted three dimensional, Reverspective print, inspired by his own popart & books laid out in the studio. Produced in 2023. This print comes housed in a bespoke perspex displ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Still Life with Lemons and Peer - Oil Painting by Franco Marzilli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition. Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first artis...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled 4. From Searching a Father Series. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color

Male Bust - Bronze Sculpture by Igor Mitoraj - 1991
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing male bronze bust with a black patina. This work is the 6th from an edition of eight. Its creator, Igor Mitoraj, is a polish sculptor deeply rooted in the classical tradition....
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Born to be Wild' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Born to be Wild' - 2018 signed in front, not mounted. 1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid. Pol...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Blood and Milk VIII - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 46x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This dramatic underwater nude photograph of a young woman transforms the aquatic environment into a canvas of intense crimson and coral tones. The composition captures fluid movement...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Monkey Parliament (with Original Museum Tube)
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Gorgeous Banksy Monkey Parliament lithograph. Released at Banksy’s exhibition Banksy vs. Bristol Museum in 2009. The original tube that this ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Color, Lithograph

Heather - Limited edition nude photo, Charismatic erotic woman, Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Heather' Naked woman with shiny skin swa...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...

Lapis 286 - white 3D abstract floral geometric ceramic composition
Located in New York, NY
Marie Laforey is a self-taught artist based in New York, US who maintains a sustainable art practice using primarily organic material. Laforey enjoys the tactility of working with organic mediums and learning how to craft preserved moss, clay, feathers and other natural elements into beautiful abstract compositions. Primarily inspired by nature, repetition, patterns, texture and geometry are essential elements that are omnipresent in her works. About Lapis and Flos series: Laforey recent ceramic works are unique pieces that alter in patterns to give an illusion of movement and depth by using clay’s potential for building sculptural dimension. The repetitive use of a unique element, the circle is centered to her work. The circle has often been associated with the female and to Mother Earth. It has no beginning and no end, it is the whole, the essence of things. It symbolizes the ongoing energy found in nature. Laforey’s Lapis mural ceramic series...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Clay

Virtud by Francisco Jimenez - Mixed Media, Abstract Nude Figurative Painting
Located in DE
Francisco Jose Jimenez paints abstracted nude paintings using a range of materials, such as fabric, concrete, pieces of plastic etc. His portraits tell stories of imperfect beauty, i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Raw Linen, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Balloon Milkweed/Memories", Contemporary, Botanical, Black and White Photograph
Located in Franklin, MA
Vicki McKenna’s “Balloon Milkweed/Memories” is a 8 x 10 inch (image size), 14 x 16 inches (matted), handcrafted, platinum/palladium, photographic print. The contemporary black and wh...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Black and White

The receiving End - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Receiving End - 2018, 20x24cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid. Signature label with certificate. Artist inventory PL2018...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Arbus, The Junior Interstate Ballroom Dance Champions Yonkers (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Notes: From the folio, Diane Arbus, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1979. ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

It Started With A Kiss
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen and Archival Pigment in Colour on Deckled Edge Somerset Satin 410gsm Paper floated on a frame with 3mm Float Glass 44 3/10 × 30 7/10 in 112.5 × 78 cm Edition of 195 hand-...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Archival Pigment, Screen

Bent Tree in the Fog, Monochrome Photograph, Landscape Print, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Curved tree in fairy forest in mystical fog, Fanal, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 8. Signed, titled, dated and numb...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Hunt Slonem "Bayou La Fouche" Bayou Landscape
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Bayou La Fouche Date: 2021 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 13.5" x 20" Framed Dimensions: 15.5" x 22" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Champagne Paradise, Vineyard, Tree Landscape, limited edition photography print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white 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 ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pink Granite Coast, Rock, monochrome photograph, limited edition landscape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Huge Rock on the pink granite coast beach in Brittany, France. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Geral...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

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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