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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.

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Style: Contemporary
KAWS BFF Companion Set of 2 works (KAWS Companion)
KAWS BFF Companion Set of 2 works (KAWS Companion)

KAWS BFF Companion Set of 2 works (KAWS Companion)

By KAWS

Located in NEW YORK, NY

KAWS BFF 2017 (set of 2 individual works): each new, & unopened in original packaging. Standout KAWS Companion figures derived from KAWS’ large scale BFF sculpture in Los Angel...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Summer Story  -  Minimalist Figurative Landscape Painting
Summer Story  -  Minimalist Figurative Landscape Painting

Summer Story - Minimalist Figurative Landscape Painting

By Mike Gough

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Gough’s interest in the elusive quality of memory has always been an invariable interest in his art practice. Rooted in memories of his upbringing in Newfoundland, Gough’s paintings ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Pugna 056, by Chidy Wayne - Mixed Media on Canvas
Pugna 056, by Chidy Wayne - Mixed Media on Canvas

Pugna 056, by Chidy Wayne - Mixed Media on Canvas

Located in Bruxelles, BE

Chidy Wayne (b. 1981, Spain) is an artist based in Barcelona. Over the years, he has established himself as a recognized figure in the art world, developing a personal artistic langu...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Lath Study II", deteriorating architecture, framed wall-hanging white sculpture
"Lath Study II", deteriorating architecture, framed wall-hanging white sculpture

"Lath Study II", deteriorating architecture, framed wall-hanging white sculpture

By Seth Clark

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"Lath Study II" is an original wood, joint compound, and white paint sculpture by Seth Clark measuring 24”h x 24”w x 2.75”d. This piece ships ready-to-hang framed as pictured. "My ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, House Paint

Follow Suit (Card Player) -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, People, Red
Follow Suit (Card Player) -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, People, Red

Follow Suit (Card Player) -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, People, Red

By Ajegbomogun Damilola

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

This body of work mirrors the complexities of the human heart and emotions. It reminds us that emotions are not always straightforward but are layered with depth and nuance. This pai...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape #38

Landscape #38

By Vanessa Marsh

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Sometimes there is a hazy, almost tropical light that falls over the Bay Area. The moisture in the air falls on the landscape and makes it appear as a series of two-dimensional plane...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink

Pumpkins (set of 2)

Pumpkins (set of 2)

By Yayoi Kusama

Located in Washington , DC, DC

These are genuine authorized works by Yayoi Kusama, comes with original boxes. The Yellow comes with a blue box and the Red with a red box.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Paint

The Sphere of Reason
The Sphere of Reason

The Sphere of Reason

By Mark Kostabi

Located in New York, NY

Oil on canvas Signed and dated, l.l. This painting is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Price includes framing. About the artist: Artist and Composer Mark Kostabi was b...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled  - Landscape Nature Painting by Lesley Anne Spowart
Untitled  - Landscape Nature Painting by Lesley Anne Spowart

Untitled - Landscape Nature Painting by Lesley Anne Spowart

Located in Carmel, CA

Lesley Anne Spowart, an abstract artist hailing from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is renowned for her transformative creations that blur the boundaries of mediums and styles. With a di...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Adesewa
Adesewa

Olalekan OdunboriAdesewa, 2024

$1,480Sale Price|20% Off

Adesewa

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. "Adesewa" is an artwork that glorifies the grace and resilience of African women with a regal and sophisticated touch. It showcases their deep connection to cultural roots and the affirmation of identity through the adorned Banky Knots, a traditional African hairstyle. Additionally, the piece embodies themes of self-affirmation and embracing one's true self. Olalekan Odunbori...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic

Hunt Slonem "Night Owl" Owl
Hunt Slonem "Night Owl" Owl

Hunt Slonem "Night Owl" Owl

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Night Owl Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on Wood Unframed Dimensions: 20.5" x 12.5" Framed Dimensions: 25.5" x 17.5" Signature: Signed Verso Edition: Uniqu...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

"Round Up Time" Rodeo Cowboy Scene
"Round Up Time" Rodeo Cowboy Scene

"Round Up Time" Rodeo Cowboy Scene

Located in Austin, TX

By M.A. Bhatti 20" x 16" Oil on Canvas Framed Size: 24" x 19.5"

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lower Manhattan, NYC Urban Landscape, Original Oil on Canvas
Lower Manhattan, NYC Urban Landscape, Original Oil on Canvas

Lower Manhattan, NYC Urban Landscape, Original Oil on Canvas

Located in Chicago, IL

In "Lower Manhattan", Alberto Pina presents the city as a layered landscape of form and quiet rhythm. Blocks of brick, glass, and steel interlock in a measured composition, their edg...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

HOMAGE TO THE PANTHERS Signed Lithograph Portrait Black Power Movement, Activism
HOMAGE TO THE PANTHERS Signed Lithograph Portrait Black Power Movement, Activism

HOMAGE TO THE PANTHERS Signed Lithograph Portrait Black Power Movement, Activism

By Elizabeth Catlett

Located in Union City, NJ

HOMAGE TO THE PANTHERS is an original limited edition lithograph created using hand printmaking techniques on white archival fine art paper, 100% acid free. Pencil signed, titled, dated by Elizabeth Catlett on the lower margin, embossed with printers chop mark lower left, print documentation provided. HOMAGE TO THE PANTHERS is an impactful graphic statement by the African-American woman printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, created as a tribute to the famous late 1960's Black Power organization, The Black Panthers. Composition of geometric orange rust shapes, powerfully graphic dense black portrait heads, clenched fists and guns. The Black Panther Party...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Landscape with Evergreens
Landscape with Evergreens

Landscape with Evergreens

Located in Columbia, MO

Mark English (American, 1933 – 2019) was a prolific illustrator turned fine‑art painter whose career spanned six decades and multiple disciplines. Born in Hubbard, Texas, he began hi...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Snowy Mountains

Snowy Mountains

By Theodore Waddell

Located in Bozeman, MT

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media

Make My Heart Melt - 'I LOVE YOU' Graffiti Color Drenched Mixed Media Painting
Make My Heart Melt - 'I LOVE YOU' Graffiti Color Drenched Mixed Media Painting

Make My Heart Melt - 'I LOVE YOU' Graffiti Color Drenched Mixed Media Painting

By Amber Goldhammer

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Latex, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

How to Make the Train Come Faster, Oil Painting
How to Make the Train Come Faster, Oil Painting

How to Make the Train Come Faster, Oil Painting

By Keith Thomson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A solitary man on a subway platform stands in a pool of light. He stares down the dark tunnel as if by sheer will he could summon the train. Others, he admits...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Ancient Laurisilva Forest, Foggy Tree, Madeira – Fine Art Landscape Photography
Ancient Laurisilva Forest, Foggy Tree, Madeira – Fine Art Landscape Photography

Ancient Laurisilva Forest, Foggy Tree, Madeira – Fine Art Landscape Photography

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21042 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Future Relic no.3 (Clock)
Future Relic no.3 (Clock)

Future Relic no.3 (Clock)

By Daniel Arsham

Located in London, GB

Daniel Arsham Future Relic no.3 (Clock), 2015 Plaster and broken glass comes with the original box some minor wear to the box. 14 × 12.7 × 6.4 cm Edition of 400 Daniel Arsham is a c...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass, Plaster

Benares, India

Benares, India

By Linda Connor

Located in Sante Fe, NM

Printed onto direct positive Printing Out Paper and then gold-toned. Linda Connor's imagery of ancient and sacred places explores the relationship between nature, civilization and s...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Gold

Berry Orange Blue - by Skadi Engeln  Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting
Berry Orange Blue - by Skadi Engeln  Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting

Berry Orange Blue - by Skadi Engeln Contemporary Abstract Landscape Painting

Located in DE

Skadi Engeln, a Berlin- and France-based artist, studied sculpture at FH Ottersberg with Robert van de Laar and painting with Michael Kohr and Hermanus Westendorp. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in cities like Berlin, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York, and more, and is part of international collections. Engeln explores landscape as a dynamic, ever-changing entity dissolving into light, water, and weather, only to reassemble itself. Like painting, landscapes blur the line between the visible and the hidden, revealing deeper truths in their transitions. The horizon plays a central role in her work, both separating and connecting what lies above and below, the seen and the concealed. Rather than decoding these layers, she preserves their mystery and beauty. Since 2001, she has focused on abstract landscape painting. Her recent works depict landscapes veiled by lines, stripes, and distortions, creating a sense of distance, like reflections in a train window...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel

Wind-Bent Tree in Cloud Forest – Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
Wind-Bent Tree in Cloud Forest – Limited Edition Black and White Photograph

Wind-Bent Tree in Cloud Forest – Limited Edition Black and White Photograph

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21226 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pink Granite Coast Rock Formations — Minimalist Black-and-White Photograph
Pink Granite Coast Rock Formations — Minimalist Black-and-White Photograph

Pink Granite Coast Rock Formations — Minimalist Black-and-White Photograph

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21156 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

"Candleholders (Flower)" -- Sculpture by Jenny Day
"Candleholders (Flower)" -- Sculpture by Jenny Day

"Candleholders (Flower)" -- Sculpture by Jenny Day

By Jenny Day

Located in New Orleans, LA

"Candleholders (Flower)" are sold individually, limited run of 6 multiples. JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from th...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze

Roman Spiral Staircase, Italy, Contemporary Photography, A/P, 2023 by RF
Roman Spiral Staircase, Italy, Contemporary Photography, A/P, 2023 by RF

Roman Spiral Staircase, Italy, Contemporary Photography, A/P, 2023 by RF

By Roberta Fineberg

Located in New york, NY

An artist's proof (a/p) of a spiral staircase in Rome by Roberta Fineberg (RF) that captures a cylindrical stairwell in the Eternal City. For a Cities series, RF travels often to Eur...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digi...

Set of 2 canvas with brown leather, natural dyes and cotton with wooden frame
Set of 2 canvas with brown leather, natural dyes and cotton with wooden frame

Set of 2 canvas with brown leather, natural dyes and cotton with wooden frame

Located in Carballo, ES

TUSET (1997, A Coruña) buries. He presents his latest series using patchwork, with paintings that have spent a year underground and leather. What emerges is an eroded map, a surface ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Leather, Wood, Cotton Canvas

Pride and Prejudice, Original Painting
Pride and Prejudice, Original Painting

Pride and Prejudice, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Delicate blue flowers bloom from a central stem, painted with soft gradients and fine detail. Their organic shapes complement the structure of handwritten text ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Utopian Foyer IV, Milan - Color Blocking Architecture Photograph
Utopian Foyer IV, Milan - Color Blocking Architecture Photograph

Utopian Foyer IV, Milan - Color Blocking Architecture Photograph

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

'Utopian Foyer IV', photographed in February 2020 for his ongoing series 'A Short History of Milan'. There is a reoccurring linear, structural theme throughout the series, capturing...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Landscape - XXI century Acrylic painting, Abstaction & Figurative
Landscape - XXI century Acrylic painting, Abstaction & Figurative

Landscape - XXI century Acrylic painting, Abstaction & Figurative

By Monika Rossa

Located in Warsaw, PL

acrylic on plastic board MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices d...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Laundromat-  video wall sculpture inspired by film noir by the McGuire studio
Laundromat-  video wall sculpture inspired by film noir by the McGuire studio

Laundromat- video wall sculpture inspired by film noir by the McGuire studio

By Davy and Kristin McGuire

Located in New York, NY

The McGuires have created a body of work inspired by the seedy, shady underworld of Film Noir. Inhabited by gritty gangsters and femme fatales these characters come alive within a se...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Video, Mixed Media

Landscape - Oil Paint - 1970s
Landscape - Oil Paint - 1970s

Landscape - Oil Paint - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Landscape is a beautiful oil on board, realized by an unknown artist 1970s.

Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Minimalist Coastal Landscape — Benches on Deserted Beach, France (Black & White)
Minimalist Coastal Landscape — Benches on Deserted Beach, France (Black & White)

Minimalist Coastal Landscape — Benches on Deserted Beach, France (Black & White)

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21151 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital 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.