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
Avant que #3 - Floral landscape colorful blue dominant contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Avant que #7 - Floral landscape colorful blue dominant contemporary photograph
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century.
Belgian photog...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
3 samourais - whimsical manipulated color photograph of a flying Parisian house
Located in New York, NY
Laurent Chéhere, a French photographer born in 1972 in Paris, makes images of flying houses and other dwellings that are informed by his wanderings in the hidden neighborhoods of Par...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Vertigo- digital manipulated photograph of a whimsical flying swimming pool
Located in New York, NY
Laurent Chéhere, a French photographer born in 1972 in Paris, makes images of flying houses and other dwellings that are informed by his wanderings in the hidden neighborhoods of Par...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Alfred-grey green contemporary figurative photo transfer on paper and thread
Located in New York, NY
Michele Landel creates intensely textured and airy collages using burned, quilted, and embroidered fabric, photographs and paper to explore the themes of exposure, absence, and memor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Fabric, Thread, Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
River Windrush, Upper Slaughter, Original painting, cotswolds, Landscape
By Elizabeth Chapman
Located in Deddington, GB
The artist loves to capture the shape of trees during the winter days. The river Windrush flows through many of the North Cotswold villages. the drawing is made in black ink with the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Tulip - analogue black and white floral photography
Located in London, GB
'Tulip’
London, United Kingdom 2024.
It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof camera.
The photograph is signed front and back and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Carefully placed in a secure cardboard package and shipped with an insured express delivery service.
Please feel free to contact if you have any questions.
About the artist:
Ugne Pouwell is a fine art photographer originally from Lithuania. Today she makes most of her creative work in London, United Kingdom.
Her main focus is black-and-white landscape and floral photography...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée
Sisters' Embrace, Happiness Series: Journey to Inner Peace original painting
Located in Sempach, LU
In the "Happiness Series: Journey to Inner Peace", the painting, which captivates with its depth, reflects the essence of exploring happiness and joy in unpredictable times. This can...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two Love Birds III, Original painting, Mixed media, Nature, Birds, Parrots
Located in Deddington, GB
Two Love Birds iii is a unique pastel drawing surrounded by golden leaf. The piece is displayed in a circular, handcrafted, black lacquered frame. The work is 31cm diameter and 10cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
"Night Jewels", Geometric Abstract Painting, Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Aaron Karp
Located in St. Louis, MO
Aaron Karp has exhibited his work extensively and has received recognition through a number of awards, grants and artist in residencies. Aaron Karp has developed a style of painting ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wire
Duende Three, Stripes Beige, Orange, Yellow, Red, Green, Gray
Located in Kent, CT
In this painting by Elizabeth Gourlay, clean and precise, carefully ordered stripes and blocks of color in orange, green, yellow, red and brown are warm and vibrant against the soft ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Vinyl
Spring Dreaming, Original painting, Floral art, Landscape, Meadow, Nature, Blue
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Dreaming - An Original semi-abstract painting by Lucy Moore. Using her signature string grass technique and a vibrant palette Lucy has created a semi-abstract twist to her cla...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Determination - Original Pointillist Textured Artwork
By Susan Gale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Susan Gale's work explores the nostalgia of community by highlighting the juxtaposition between the peaceful, quiet, mystery of light, and the rush of visually invoked sensation. She...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Splash I" - Original Acrylic Painting Evoking Water Motion, Energetic Abstract
Located in Denver, CO
Andrew Gray's "Splash I, 2024" is an energetic work from his 'Currents of Color' series, represented in his recent solo exhibition. Measuring 26 x 21 inches and framed to 27 x 22 inc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I Have A Dream, Black Portrait Head Civil Rights Activist
By Ben Shahn
Located in Union City, NJ
BEN SHAHN - Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have A Dream is a limited run, plate signed, commemorative lithograph recreated after the wood engraving by Stefan Martin(1936 - 1994), an American wood engraver and illustrator. Printed using traditional lithography methods in 1981 on fine quality, archival Somerset printmaking paper, 100% acid free. Features a striking black and white portrait head portraying the fine wood engraved image of civil rights leader - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. along with text from his famed inspirational, I’ve been to the mountaintop’ speech. Printed signatures of Ben Shahn in dark reddish brown ink and Martin Luther King Jr. in gray ink. (see Photos) Artists copyright text printed...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Drift 30" Photography 30" x 20" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
"Drift 30" Photography 30" x 20" Edition of 10 by Rowan Daly
Digital print on Ultra Smooth Fine Art Paper
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
DRIFT
Behind the scenes of the natio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital, Archival Pigment
Diptych of Summer Sparrow and Flycatcher Canary, original paintings, Spring
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Sparrow - This vibrant summer piece was inspired by the colours of the floral borders at Hampton Court Palace. A Sparrow sits for a moment - amid a riot of greens, pinks and y...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Serpent
Located in Bristol, GB
Ceramic
Edition of 250
Numbered on the base
New, as issued
Packaged in wooden box with COA
Our mission is to connect art collectors to opportunity.
Whether it be figurative, abstra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic
10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Poster - 1979
Located in New Orleans, LA
10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Poster, 1979
by John Martinez
Fifth in the series by John Martinez. The grand marshal returns for the Jazz Festival's 10th an...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Abstract Dancers, White 1, 2019 by Giles Revell - Photography, Contemporary
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order and lead times are between 15-20 days.
A stunning and dynamic Archival Pigment Print by contemporary British photographer Giles Revell...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Green, White Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Gurucharan Singh
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas
24 x 67 inches 60 x 170 cm
( Unframed & Delivered )
Born
1949
Exhibitions :
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 'Twilight Tales', The...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Edifice II" contemporary drawing, abstract geometric, natural architecture
Located in Hamburg, HH
“Edifice” is a group of small works on paper created in 2024 by Amanda Andersen.
This series of contemporary drawings explores architectural forms with elements of abstraction, sket...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Graphite
Casino Royal
Located in London, GB
hand signed
acrylic painting on canvas print gliceé
2024
the item will be shipped rolled, without any wooden frame/stretcher
The artist recalls that at an early age she loved to s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Giclée, Acrylic
Untitled (Nr. 0951) Photography 36" x 44" Edition 1/12 by Ben Cope & Rowan Daly
By Rowan Daly
Located in Culver City, CA
Untitled (Nr. 0951) Photography 36" x 44" Edition 1/12 by Ben Cope & Rowan Daly
Unframed - ships rolled in a tube
Ben Cope + Rowan Daly Off the Grid
Off the Grid is the culminat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Interior III", contemporary, window, abandoned, doors, white, color photograph
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Interior III” is a 12 x 18 inch color photograph taken from inside an abandoned farmhouse in North Dakota. The viewer gets a glimpse of the beautiful landscape thr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
"Interior II", contemporary, windows, abandoned, blue, color photograph, print
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Interior II” is a 12 x 18 inch color photograph taken from inside an abandoned farmhouse in North Dakota. Three windows offer a peak at the surrounding overgrowth ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
"Favela I" Painting 17" x 20" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Located in Culver City, CA
"Favela I" Painting 17" x 20" inch by Mohamed Hussein
Born 1989, Mohamed Hussein is a Fayoum native whose semi-abstract landscape and urban vistas are captured with a cultured palet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Long Way Home - based on the Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
Long Way Home II, 2005
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid.
Sandwiched in between Plexiglass (thic...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - GASOLINE III - based on the Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
Gasoline III (Stranger than Paradise), 1999
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid.
Sandwiched in bet...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Stefanie Schneider Minis - Long Way Home - based on the Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider's Minis
Long Way Home (Stranger than Paradise), 1999
Signed and signature brand on verso.
Lambda digital Color Photographs based on the Polaroid.
Sandwiched in be...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Marguerite, Painting, White Flowers, Yellow, Mothers Day, Vase, Oil painting
By Betty Ball
Located in Riverdale, NY
Marguerite by Betty Ball is part of her Flower series. It is Oil on Linen, 12x12. It is framed to 13.5 x 13.5 It is $875. It is a beautiful group of flowers in a vase with water....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
My Point of View, Original paining, Abstract, Modern art, Landscape
By Gina Parr
Located in Deddington, GB
My point of view is an original contemporary abstract landscape oil painting from Gina Parr's series "Gone fishin' with Wilf’, remembering fishing with her father Wilf' as a child an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic
Rattle my Heart - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Rattle your Heart - 2024 -
40x48cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
inventory PL2024-12.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Archival Paper
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
A Touch of France, Original painting, Still life, Furniture art, Mixed media art
By Julia Adams
Located in Deddington, GB
A Touch of France by Julia Adams is a blue and grey mixed media interior space painting inspired by French styling.
Medium – mixed media and acrylic
Size – 80x80cms deep edge canvas ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 1024
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 1024, 2011
Photographs from the photography book entitled Hotel Chelsea (publisher pointed leaf press 2013).
C-print archival
Size: 20 H x 30 W in. Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
David Yarrow Photograph / The Rolling Stones / Horses
By David Yarrow
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 20, signed by artist
This is a special image for me; in part because it is such a low percentage capture and in part because its dynamism extols the wild nature of mustan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
SP Urban Patterns 4
Located in New York City, NY
32x32in ed.7
Unframed Photograph
Leslie Spak was born in Lima, Peru in 1976.
Her visual repertoire is characterized by the construction of images through research, selection and rep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Tape, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
SP Urban Patterns 3
Located in New York City, NY
32x32in ed.7
Unframed Photograph
Leslie Spak was born in Lima, Peru in 1976.
Her visual repertoire is characterized by the construction of images through research, selection and rep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Tape, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jon Kuhn (American, b. 1949) 'Sunflower 2024' 5 layers Glass Art Cube Sculpture
By Jon Kuhn
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
‘Sunflower’, by Jon Kuhn, made in Kernersville, North Carolina
Medium: 5 layers Glass Art Cube Sculpture on rotating stainless steel base.
Dimensions - H: 6.5" x 6.5 x 9.5 H Inches
C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Glass, Acrylic Polymer
SP Urban Patterns 2
Located in New York City, NY
32x32in ed.7
Unframed Photograph
Leslie Spak was born in Lima, Peru in 1976.
Her visual repertoire is characterized by the construction of images through research, selection and rep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Tape, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
SP Urban Patterns 1
Located in New York City, NY
32x32in ed.7
Unframed Photograph
Leslie Spak was born in Lima, Peru in 1976.
Her visual repertoire is characterized by the construction of images through research, selection and rep...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Tape, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Third Eye, Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Munich, DE
Limited Edition of 7
Framed size 49 x 69 cm
All works are Archival Pigment prints, floating in an all black wooden frame behind museums glass.
More sizes on request.
Sara Punt's wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Don't Be a Jerk skateboard
Located in New York, NY
Barbara Kruger
Don't Be a Jerk skateboard, 2017
Screenprint on skate deck
31 × 8 inches
From the Barbara Kruger "The Drop" show at Performa 17 in NYC. which sold out. An ironic play...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media, Screen
"Splash II" - Acrylic Painting Evoking Water Motion, Energetic Abstract
Located in Denver, CO
Andrew Gray’s "Splash II, 2024," a continuation of the 'Currents of Color' series, is presented within a thin white frame, enhancing the artwork to a total size of 27 x 22 inches. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Third Floor, South
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Third Floor, South 2011
Photographs from the photography book entitled Hotel Chelsea (publisher pointed leaf press 2013).
C-print archival
Size: 26.6 in H x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
TARGET EXCEPTIONS
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Shepard Fairey
TARGET EXCEPTIONS, 2021
OFFSET LITHOGRAPH
36 x 24 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Print Destroy
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Shepard Fairey
Print & Destroy, 2020
36 x 24 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Stay Up Girl
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Shepard Fairey
Stay Up Girl, 2022
Off set lithograph in colors
36 x 24 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Ex Nihilo Maquette Cast Marble
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Frederick Hart
Ex Nihilo Maquette Cast Marble, (193/910)
Limited Edition Cast Marble
20 x 30 in
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Marble
On Your Tomb, They Won't Smell Nice
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
On Your Tomb, They Won't Smell Nice is an original painting by Obeka Simon. Simon created On Your Tomb, They Won't Smell Nice with Oil on a 40W by 45H inches primed canvas.
Simon Obeka...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Presidio Drag Racing)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
Please note that prices incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Presidio Drag Racing)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
Please note that prices incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Presidio Drag Racing)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
Please note that prices incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Presidio Drag Racing)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
Please note that prices incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Presidio Drag Racing)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
Please note that prices incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Presidio Drag Racing)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, Edition of 5
20 x 20 in, Edition of 7
15 x 15 in, Edition of 9
Please note that prices incr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Untitled (Colorado I-70 no. 1)
By Brian Finke
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, verso)
Digital Pigment Print
30 x 30 in, edition of 4
20 x 20 in, edition of 9
15 x 15 in, edition of 20
Please note that prices increas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, 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.
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