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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
Limones con Cuchara and Mandarinas con Libro, Diptych. From The Bodegones 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

Untitled - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Orange Yellow Green Stripes, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract painting in acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered blocks of color in bright orange, yellow, red orange coral and sage green ar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Magnolia 11 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Drypoint, Paper, Etching

Black Poppyseed Capsule No 3 - contemporary, handcrafted, ceramic sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary ceramic vessel was inspired by nature and rendered in black. As a masterful ceramicist, Loren Kaplan has been intrigued by the concept of containers; the idea that...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic

Heated skin Cool water - Contemporary Architecture Pool House Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth's architectural paintings transport viewers on a visual journey to a different world, where imagination knows no bounds and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Orchid-Signed limited edition fine art print, Black White Nature, Still life
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Orchids by Ian Sanderson Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1991 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file wh...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Vibrant K Dorfman Portrait of a Black Woman
Located in New York, NY
K. Dorfman Untitled (Portrait of an Unknown Black Woman) Oil on canvas 36 x 28 in. Framed: 37 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 2 in. Signed lower right: K. Dorfman
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Georgian Contemporary Art by Nino Tolomashvili - 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on paper Nino Tolomashvili is a Georgian painter born in 2003 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. After completing her schooling, she pursued her studies at the Tbilisi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Untitled - Lithograph by Antoni Tapies - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
This original artwork by Antoni Tàpies is one of the 10 colored lithographs of the “Berlin Suite”. Tàpies realized this portfolio in 1974, each lithograph is on Arches wove paper. ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Tigers Animal Paradise Tropical Jungle Painting Surrealist Art Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
Original Painting tigers in jungle by river with reflection, tropical jungle setting. Titled "Paper Boat". Hand signed recto and titled verso. Framed 25.5 X 21.5 Canvas is 24 X 20 Gustavo Novoa, Born 1941 in Santiago, Chile, He attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Novoa made his debut as an artist in the early 1960¹s selling oil painting, watercolors and crayon drawings on the streets of Paris, France, principally Montmartre. His first one-man show was sponsored by the Chilean Ambassador at the Maison de L¹Amerique Latin in 1961. The late Queen Victoria Eugenia...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Portrait de Nadia - Lithograph after Fernand Léger - 1959
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized after Fernand Léger in 1959, on Moulin Richard de Bas paper. Monogrammed in the plate. It belongs to the suite "Contrastes", printed by Daniel Jacomet and publi...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Russian Contemporary Art by Yuriy Demiyanov - Phloxes sur Rouge
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Yuriy Demiyanov is a Russian artist born in 1964 who lives and works in Zadonsk, Russia. He is graduated from the Lipetsk State Pedagogical Institute. He frequently ex...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Donald Sultan 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' - Limited Edition Silkscreen
Located in New York, NY
Donald Sultan's 'Seven Silvers Jan. 24, 2024' is a masterful color silkscreen featuring enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like textures, limited to an edition of 30. Donald Sułtan Seve...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a  vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s. The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s. 
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

"Dear Prudence" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Dear Prudence" first released as on The White Album by the Beatles in 1968 . It was written when Len...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Other Medium

Deep Red glossy ceramic balloon sculpture handmade for wall, ceiling
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
ArtArsouf Contemporary handmade Glossy Red ceramic balloon sculpture. These handmade balloon sculptures can be easily installed on the wall or from the ceiling and are beautiful when...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Coating, Glaze

Ode to Wyeth's Christina's World
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 3, 2APs Large Size: 24 x 36 inches STATEMENT: e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the h...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ultramarine Male Nude - Contemporary Abstract Ecolina Painting, New Expression
Located in Salzburg, AT
Grażyna Rigall is a painter, illustrator, author of stage designs and music videos. - The artist is interested in the merging of the world of fauna and flora with the world of man, p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Strawberry Tree and Mount Tahoma
Located in London, GB
Billy Childish Strawberry Tree and mount Tahoma, 30.5 x 38.3 cm, edition of 200, 2022 hand-signed and numbered by the artist Billy Childish is a prolific British artist, musician, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jo - Signed limited edition fine art print, Black white, Nude, Square photo
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Jo - Limited edition archival pigment print, 1982 - Edition 2 of 5 This image was captured on film in 1982. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...

"Remnant" abstract glass sculpture by Czech artist Josef Marek
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
In rich hues of clear blue, this vertical cast glass sculpture by Czech artist Josef Marek is like a miniature piece of ocean. The smooth vertical surfaces with sharp angles come to ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

Field Painting August 3 2020, Green Tree, Violet Blue, Lavender, White Flowers
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful summer scene with a tree with dark green leaves, its branches hanging over a delicately painted, green grassy field with white, pale periwinkle blue and lilac colored wild...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

American Contemporary Art by David Paul Kay - Aquamarine
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on paper + vintage frame Framed 36 x 30 x 2 in David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist born in 1982 who lives and works in New York City, USA. With a focus on vibrant...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink

Swim Stop (Image 60 x 60, Sheet: 70 x 70cm), Art Print, Seascape, Blue, Sailing
Located in Deddington, GB
Swim Stop – Large print by Gordon Hunt [2020] Image Size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Sheet/ Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:70 cm x D:.1cm This is the only size remaining of thi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Giclée

Poncho Jueves 26 de Mayo, Framed Drawing
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Poncho Jueves 26 de Mayo, "Requiem por la condesa Nubia Brashi", 2016 Pencil on archival paper Image size: 59 H in. x 40 in. W Frame size: 63 H x 42.5 W x 2 D in. On The back of th...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper, Pencil

Feast from the Deep, Dominica by Paul Nicklen -Contemporary Wildlife Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Feast from the Deep Dominica, 2019 36 in x 24 in (91.4 x 61cm) Edition of 20 46.5 in x 31 in (118.1 x 78.7cm) Edition of 15 60 in x 40 in (152.4 x 101.6cm) Edition of 10 90 in × 60 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Rich Thomson
Located in New York, NY
Rich Thomson c. 1959-1981 Signature stamp in black ink, verso Vintage silver print 7 x 5 inches $800 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Winged Horse Pegasus - Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962. From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone. Excellent c...
Category

1960s Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

"Nestled in Blue" by Chris Hong, Watercolor Painting of Happy Sleeping Cat
Located in Denver, CO
Chris Hong's "Nestled in Blue" is an original, handmade watercolor painting that depicts a nestled cat with overtones of blue. This piece is framed and ready to hang. Chris Hong i...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Fire
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Fire - 2017, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs Archival Print, based on aPolaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2017-108. Kirsten Thys...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper, Black and White

Invitation Only - Colorful Still Life Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Trinket Net No. 3, John Garrett, 2023, Wall Hanging Installation Sculpture
Located in St. Louis, MO
John Garrett was raised in southern New Mexico by parents who were both educators. They instilled in him an appreciation for the handmade with their collections of Native American a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal, Brass, Copper, Steel

I've got a secret - Atmospheric dramatic abstract round landscape painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
There is something about my imagination. Something expansive and wandering, a never-ending story. I live there so much of the time. I must say that I have often wondered if I am made...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

La Baronessa - Framed Original Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Alessandro Casetti's paintings metaphorically represent all the emotions, fears, and hopes that populate our daily life inside and outside of our own bodies. Through a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Mediterranean Villa with Flowers - Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Mediterranean Villa with Flowers - Seascape in Oil on Canvas Bold landscape overlooking the sea by J. Davison (20th Century). The viewer stands on the balcony of a Mediterranean hou...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

The golden Horse by Helle Crawford, Contemporary bronze horse animal sculpture
Located in DE
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold, Bronze

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Nude Man with Horse
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

SCOUT SERIES SET OF 6
Located in Washington , DC, DC
comes with original packaging
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Thread

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men Kissing Contemporary Painting by Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men Kissing Contemporary Painting by Mark Beard n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches $3,600 + $1...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Little Boodge (1993) after David Hockney
Located in London, GB
Offset lithograph Unsigned 11.02 x 16.54 in (28.0 x 42.0 cm) This is a vintage artist-authorised David Hockney poster print, printed in 1993. This is not a later reproduction. The ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Autumn Magnolia (Delicate Photograph on Rice Paper of Plum Colored Blossoms)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Autumn Magnolia No. 1" Abstract still life photograph of deep plum Magnolia petals and green leaves against a white sky background Photograph printed on Japanese Kozo paper infused ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wax, Encaustic, Archival Paper, Mulberry Paper

Ice Cream Sundae
Located in New York, NY
Sila Sehrazat Yucel is a talented artist based in Istanbul. Her background in landscape and interior architecture shapes her creative vision. With experience as an art director in ci...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (Sin Titulo I)
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
Manuel Soto-Muñoz (1913-2000), Puerto Rican born American painter. Recipient award of merit Florida Southern College, 1958; prize Art Students League New York, 1950; 1st prize Salón ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Beach House, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Vibrant flowers spill from a deep purple vase, their colorful petals popping against a neutral backdrop. The abstract floral details evoke the tranquil sunshi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

The Mystery of Growing Things - Moody Still Life Flowers in Vase Bright Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Inspired by paintings created by old masters and the immersive nature she experienced in the Black Forest, German artist Katharina Husslein paints in a representational hyperrealisti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Orchid - Signed limited edition still life print, Romantic, Flowers Contemporary
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Orchids by Ian Sanderson Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1991 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file whi...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Casanova #7 for Spanish Vogue
Located in München, BY
Edition of 25 A naked tattooed girl with a venetian mask in front of her face is posing on a table in an old venetian palace. The artist, photographer an...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pocket Crimson Strawberry 2 c, Original Painting, Fruit Art, Realism
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Crimson Strawberry 2 c 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

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas

Composition, Heart of Darkness, Sean Scully
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Etching in colors on vélin de Lana Royal paper. Paper Size: 11.93 x 9.81 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Heart of Darkness, 1992. Publ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Winter Sport Athletes
Located in New York, NY
Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite Price includes $650 additional cost of framing. This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Ropes and Arm Band)
Located in New York, NY
James Childs (1945-2020) Untitled (Standing Male Nude with Ropes and Arm Band) 2010 Signed and dated, l.l. Graphite and pastel crayon on paper 30.5 x 22 inches $3,125
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Graphite

Let Us Devote Our Hearts
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. Minor points of without pigment benea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Offset

Cara Delevingne Icon XV /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Model Portrait
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Cara Delevingne Icon XV" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Medium...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

"Shift", gestural, ceramic, white, cream, stoneware, sculpture
Located in Natick, MA
Sara Fine-Wilson's “Shift" is a gestural 14.5 x 10 x 6.5 inch ceramic sculpture in white and cream and constructed in white stoneware in a graceful fluid form. Individual slab forms ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze

BROTHERS Signed Lithograph, Contemporary Portrait, Two Young Boys, Peach, Brown
Located in Union City, NJ
BROTHERS is an original hand drawn lithograph by the Argentine artist, Aldo Luongo. Printed in 1975 at Circle Gallery NYC using traditional hand lithography methods on archival Arche...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Splash
Located in Manchester, GB
Andrew Scott, Splash, 2024 Giclee print on 315 gsm etching cotton rag paper 33 x 45 cm ( 13 x 17.7 in) Edition of 250 Frame included Hand-signed and...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Giclée

Fawn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Fawn" is an original ink, colored pencil, and gouache on paper artwork by Henry Hablak measuring 30"h x 22"w. Henry Hablak is a tattoo artist and illustrator based out of Philadel...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Color Pencil

Blue Rider Series #30
Located in Bozeman, MT
Daphne Sweet, artist working and living in Missoula, Mt. Using acrylic, oil, clay, and fabric. Bouncing between classical references and personal allegory, the paintings and found ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

At Evil Corner II- 21st Century Contemporary landscape painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Joost Verhagen At Evil Corner II 100 x 140 cm Acrylic paint on canvas Shipping on a roll in a tube we can offer, worldwide, for free. We also ship worldwide in a wooden crate, fram...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bounty
Located in New York, NY
Archival pigment print Signed and numbered, verso 42 x 25 inches 50 x 32 inches 70 x 40 inches 84 x 48 inches (Total edition of 15) This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. With the series, "Lost" (2003-2004), Nix and Gerber continue their investigation of the constructed landscape, this time examining feelings of isolation and loneliness. Like much of their previous work, this group of photographs...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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