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
Snake
By Steve Miller
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for FRAMED print.
Edition of 6
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through December 18th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after December ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Edward Ruscha 'A Particular Kind of Heaven'
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Poster published by and for the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California. The phrase "a particular kind of heaven" implies a subjective or individualized interpretation of bliss ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Girl with Dog, Boneco de Pau, Brazil, 1995
By Barnaby Hall
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
After 30 years of only exhibiting fine art photography, the Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring a selection of her gallery photographers and t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tulips from the garden, Still life realism, Oil Painting, Contemporary , Flowers
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil painting on Linen Canvas.
Artist : Gabriel Riesnert
Subject : Tulipes du jardin dans un verre en cuivre (Title...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Canvas
Mike, Miami Beach
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Palm Trees - Vintage Photograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Palm Trees is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1970s.
Good conditions and aged.
It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical moments, places,...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Redwoods
Located in Manchester, GB
Jasper Cheng, Redwoods, 2023
Emulsion & Pumice on Canvas
150 x 130 cm (60 x 50 in)
Hand-signed by the artist
Jasper considers himself more simply as somebody who enjoys being cre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Emulsion
'Exhalation' Large scale limited edition photograph. Ocean, Sea, Light, Beach
Located in Penzance, GB
'Exhalation'
Limited Edition 60 x 48" Photograph. Edition of 25. Unframed
_________________
The wild Atlantic pounds the granite cliffs in raw abandon, breathes and exhales graceful...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment, Giclée, Digital, Archival Paper, Arch...
Tea for two – Tod
By Harry Bunce
Located in Deddington, GB
Tea for two – Tod by Harry Bunce [2017]
limited_edition
Screen Print
Edition number 146
Image size: H:25 cm x W:31 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41 cm x W:49 cm x D:0.3cm
Sol...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Crabe aux pattelas by Chésade - Bronze sealife sculpture, animal art, crab
By Chésade
Located in Paris, FR
Crabe aux pattelas is a unique bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Chésade, dimensions are 38 × 31 × 30 cm (15 × 12.2 × 11.8 in). The sculpture is signed and comes with a certifi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
"Airplane", Denver, Colorado, 2005
By Bill Phelps
Located in Hudson, NY
Robin Rice Gallery from New York and Bridgehampton comes to Beacon, NY. This year, as part of the Beacon Open Studios 10th Anniversary event, Robin Rice Gallery is proud to present a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Moon Full Bright Pocket Painting 5c*, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bright Full Moon 5c* is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still life painting. The paintin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
"Temple Guardian", Contemporary, Fiber, Life Size, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Yarn
By Ethan Meyer
Located in St. Louis, MO
"My work, both in painting and sculpture, involve networks of intricately connected, overlapping, and morphing shapes and patterns, reflecting the complex and ever-changing nature of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Textile, Yarn, Foam, Mixed Media
Tulip Fields 10 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial abstract photography, Netherlands
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 10 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 di...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
I Am Elegant
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition of 125
Signed on the accompanying COA and numbered on the back
Excellent. Minor soft creasing in bottom left and right and top middle of print.
Please note that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Sandbar. Areal Landscape ocean limited edition color photograph
By Jill Peters
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sandbar, 2015 by Jill Peters
Aerial photography
Archival pigment print on heavyweight cotton rag paper
Image size: 40 in. H x 60 in. W
Edition 2/10
Print
Unframed
All sizes signed, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Color
Surfistas, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
By Barnaby Hall
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
After 30 years of only exhibiting fine art photography, the Robin Rice Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring a selection of her gallery photographers and t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dylan Martinez - Light Blue Water Balloon, Sculpture 2024
Located in Greenwich, CT
A hyper-realistic glass sculptor, Dylan's playful creations deceive the eye with their lifelike appearance. Whether mimicking water balloons or plastic bags filled with water housing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass
Eleanor Woolley, May Hill, Original landscape painting
Located in Deddington, GB
May Hill by Eleanor Woolley [May 2021]
original
Oil Painting on Gesso Board
Image size: H:15.2 cm x W:15.2 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:15.2 cm x W:15.2 cm x D:2cm
Sold U...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Gesso, Board
Untitled "Marble Fragment 3" 2019, acrylic, landscape, wall sculpture, clouds
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Untitled "Marble Fragment 3" 2019, acrylic, landscape, wall sculpture, clouds, purple, blue
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Marble
Hero - African American Baseball Player, Boxer, Soldier, and Businessman
Located in New York, NY
Francks Deceus's "Hero" is a 24 x 48 inches mixed media work on canvas with collage. The work is partitioned in two distinct images. On the left side the artist depicted a baseball player...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
After Botero - Bull Bronze Sculpture
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
¡ Special Pricing !
This AFTER BOTERO sculpture is a very beautiful, faithful reproduction in the style of BOTERO'S work that has sold very well here on 1st Dibs.
The edition is 5...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Room with a red arch - XXI Century, Contemporary Linocut Woodcut Print, Colorful
Located in Warsaw, PL
Maria Stelmaszczyk is a Polish artist born in 1983.
PROVENANCE
Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery.
The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist.
The Gallery o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut, Linocut
Sarah's BBQ, Fourth of July, Albuquerque, NM, 1995
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
Each year, Robin Rice celebrates a Salon style exhibition to showcase her gallery artists and invite new ones.
With Robin’s extensive ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Concentric, Amagansett, NY, 2020
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
“There’s no color in my work,” says Shlafer, “I either burn it, bleach it, or leave it alone.” Shlafer’s sculptures are designed with rudimentary material such as pine, oak, and spruce salvaged as driftwood on the Eastern end of Long Island. The artist started this body of work during the pandemic after he stumbled upon the charming discoveries while traveling on foot by the coastline. Always a wayfarer at heart, he drew inspiration from his youth of traveling on a motorcycle through Southern Africa and seeing indigenous art made from ordinary earth objects within local villages.
“Wishbone 1” a 5 Foot sculpture, charred white oak with a tinted aqua resin base that reflects an omen of resilience and hardiness in light of the hardships of the past pandemic year, In another “Tune” a bleached spruce fence post narrowed into a tuning fork shape with a slate base. It welcomes a ceremonial vibe. “At the end of the day, that’s the energy we all crave,” says Shlafer, “who doesn’t respond to that?”
“Mushroom #3” a charred white oak sculpture that is versatile in design so it can act as an end table or a stool. It is masterfully crafted and brings to mind the redwood stools...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Driftwood
Palm Tree
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Palm Tree," 2019. Enamel on panel, sign painting, black, white, yellow, green and red.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel
La Boheme (Metropolitan Opera), Offset Lithograph by Jamie Wyeth
By Jamie Wyeth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jamie Wyeth, American (1946 - )
Title: La Boheme (Metropolitan Opera)
Year: 1978
Medium: Poster on Heavy Stock
Size: 36 in. x 24 in. (91.44 cm x 60.96 cm)
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Mike, Miami Beach, Florida 1998
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Chaos
Located in London, GB
80 x 60 cm
Off-set lithography
Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Narayana Press in Denmark
David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, whimsical, and often ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Thought Series #904
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, verso
13.5 x 11 inches, sheet
9.25 x 8 inches, image
(Edition of 25)
This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Enthusiasm
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Nancy Standing, Fire Island Pines, NY, 2018
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 25
After 30 years on West 11th Street, The Robin Rice Gallery celebrates its first ever exhibition for Robin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Panda Family - Happiness
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset lithograph
Edition of 300
50 x 50 cm (19.7 x 19.7 in)
Signed and numbered on the front
Excellent. Residual framing marks in top two corners only visible under raking lighting....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
I've Got Your Lipstick
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition of 125
Numbered on the reverse
Excellent. Minor soft creasing in bottom left and right of print.
Please note that this artwork is sold on consignment from the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Whites 039
By Leo Reinfeld
Located in New York, NY
Since 1995 I have used a great deal of my time to study the lines and curves of the female body.
Long before that I already had the idea that the female body contains every line, ev...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Seaplane Love
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 20.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through December 31, 2017. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Song Sparrow Pocket Painting 2, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Song Sparrow 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 baroque still...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
David Hockney Pool with Two Figures Lithograph
Located in Pasadena, CA
David Hockney,
Print Lithograph, Framed with a custom white frame and white mat.
Size is Framed
One of the most iconic images in the artist’s oeuvre, David Hockney’s Portrait of an A...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Color
Red Flowers - Contemporary Abstract Botanical Red Flowers Green Leaves, 2014
Located in Kent, CT
Dark burgundy red flowers with lush, leaves in verdant shades of green are loosely depicted in oil and graphite on white paper.
Signed on recto, lower right corner. Framed in a sol...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Graphite
The Moment has Arrived
Located in London, GB
80 x 60 cm
Off-set lithography
Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Narayana Press in Denmark
David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, whimsical, and often ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
If You Don't Like Tomatoes, You Can Fuck Off
Located in London, GB
80 x 60 cm
Off-set lithography
Printed on 200g Munken Lynx paper
Narayana Press in Denmark
David Shrigley is a British visual artist known for his distinctive, whimsical, and often ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Woman in the Boudoir oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Woman in the Boudoir
Artist: Anonymous
Dimensions: 39.4 x 31.9 in
Technique: Oil on canvas
Support: Unframed canvas
Style: Contemporary figurative art in the style of Fernando...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Racetrack - large scale desert landscape panorama under mesmerizing night sky
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
highly detailed photographic capture of the mesmerizing night sky above the California desert
Racetrack by Frank Schott
48 x 88 inches (122 x 224cm)
signed edition of 7
24 x 40 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Hummingbird XII
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by the idea of a childhood re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bakery Case by Wayne Thiebaud
Located in London, GB
Wayne Thiebaud: Bakery Case
Wayne Thiebaud (1920) is famous for his mouthwatering depictions of cakes, ice creams and hot dogs. He is well-known for his clear compositions, glisteni...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Patience and A Quiet Read diptych
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
A Quiet Read [2014]
limited_edition
oil
Edition number 120
Image size: H:20 cm x W:20 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée, Paper
Travel/Happiness II by Matthieu Venot - Photography, architecture, pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Travel/Happiness II is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary French photographer Matthieu Venot.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
After Botero - Horse Bronze Sculpture
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
This AFTER BOTERO sculpture is a very beautiful, faithful reproduction in the style of BOTERO'S work that has sold very well here on 1st Dibs.
The edition is 50 in Roman numerals. ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Breakfast TV - XXI century, Figurative-abstract painting, Colorful
By Dawid Polony
Located in Warsaw, PL
DAWID POLONY (born in 1988) Dawid Polony studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studios of graphics (prof. Tomasz Daniec), painting (prof...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Feather Tawny Owl Pocket Painting 3, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Tawny Owl feather 3 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 baroque ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Un mot après l'autre, Abstract books, Expressionism, Contemporary library
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
In One Word After Another, Sophie Dumont continues her exploration of the library motif, a recurring theme in her work, infusing it with a tactile and meditative dimension. Through a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Archer
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through October 30th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
December art for sale. Christmas art
By Harry Bunce
Located in Deddington, GB
December The Happy Year
Harry Bunce Limited Edition Print
Published 2017 as an edition of 365 worldwide (one for each day of the year) + 31 unique hand-embellished pieces.
31.5 x 28...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Star Wars R2-D2 - large format photograph of the original iconic droid robot
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale still life photograph of the original iconic droid robot from the classic Star Wars movies
Star Wars (R2-D2) by Tom Schierlitz
60 x 48 inches (152 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
40 x 32 inches (102 x 81cm)
signed edition of 25
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Moor - Handmade Linocut, Limited Edition Print Unique 2/8, Mountains
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork will be sent unframed, with passpartou
Linocut „Moor” 2023
Linocut print technique
Art print from 5 matrices
Limited edition, print unique number 2/8
Paper Fabriano Ros...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Sailing to Scolt Head, Burnham Overy Staithe and Wells Harbour
By Kate Heiss
Located in Deddington, GB
Sailing to Scolt Head by Kate Heiss [2021]
limited_edition
Oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset Velvet paper
Edition number 100
Wells Harbour by Kate Heiss [2021]
limited_edition
oil based inks on 300gsm Somerset velvet paper
Edition number 100
Image size: H:15 cm x W:15 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:0.5cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
A scene from Wells Harbour as the fishing trawlers arrive to unload there haul with sea gulls ready to swoop. The limited edition linocut is printed in a sea holly blue...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Rider, Florence, Italy, 2019
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Born in 1967, Piussi was raised in Florence where he studied at the Istituto d’arte, majoring in sculpture and painting and completing his artisti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
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.