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
Recognized Seller Listings
Hotel Bondi #1. Nude Color Photograph
By David Jay
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through Jay’s photography, context evaporates, and we as the viewer are left to engage the subjects, trade places, and for a moment, live behind their eyes.
David Jay's work gives a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Color
The Party Animal II (Giraffe)
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Party Animal II (Giraffe) is a lithograph on paper, initialed lower right 'BD', 9.5 x 7.25" image size. From the edition of 395, numbered LXVII/C (there were also 275 Arabic and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry, 1999, Digital C-Print
Located in Denton, TX
Flower Vendor on Dal Lake by Steve McCurry depicts a man transporting vibrant, multi-colored flowers in a canoe. He paddled down the calm river, passing by a house surrounded by lush...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
Arctic Nomad, Canada by Paul Nicklen - Polar Bear - National Geographic
By Paul Nicklen
Located in Chicago, IL
Arctic Nomad
Manitoba, Canada, 1996.
36 x 24 in / 91.4 x 61 cm / Edition of 20
46.5 x 31 in / 118.1 x 78.7 cm / Edition of 30
60 x 40 in / 152.4 x 101.6 cm / Edition of 30
"A male polar bear waits for the sea ice to freeze. Every year the sea ice forms later in the fall and melts earlier in the spring, leaving bears stranded on land for longer periods of time. As long as there is sea ice, bears like this one will continue to dominate the food chain in the Arctic." - Paul Nicklen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Red Barn Reflected 2022 - minimalist, contemporary, landscape, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Charles Pachter’s elegant contemporary paintings of barns pay homage to Canada’s rural roots and its strong agricultural heritage. In this piece, the clean lines of a bright red barn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Pine Cone Bronze 22-557 - still life, nature, verdigris bronze, indoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Wow! This large bronze sculpture by Floyd Elzinga is simply a ‘knock-out’ with its bright turquoise patina. The Canadian sculptor is known for using iconic i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Palma #5 by Jacob Gils - Contemporary Landscape Photography
Located in Chicago, IL
Palma #5 (Palma de Mallorca, 2022)
Beautiful picture of Jacaranda tree captured in OldTown of Palma.
Size: 43 x 28 inches / Edition of 6
Size: 70 x 47 inches / Edition of 3
Size: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
I'm consumed #4. Color photograph
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
An insipid notion (The astonished world) is a collection of unreal experiences caused by the feeling of late and inexperienced love, and the inability to fully know the experience of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cerezas. From The Bodegones still life color photography series
By Dora Franco
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
Solstice 6/50 - elegant, female, figurative, engineered granite sculpture
By Jeremy Guy
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The graceful form of a female figure emerges from hand-chiselled black granite in this classically elegant sculpture by Jeremy Guy. The British artist’s contemporary work has long be...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stone, Granite
As We Were
By Art Werger
Located in Fairlawn, OH
As We Were
Mezzotint printed on Hannemuelle Copperplate paper, 2014
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Chop stamp of the publisher, The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Dream Flower - lively, fuscia, overlapping botanicals, acrylic, oil on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
With Dream Flower, Fiona Ackerman has painted a gorgeous ethereal abstract arrangement of brilliant pink, purple, mauve, orange flowers and organic shapes against a background of vib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Rencontre (Encounter) - geometric, abstract, stainless steel outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Sculptor Claude Millette's distinctive contemporary sculptures grace many public spaces in Canada. This large abstract outdoor piece, Recontre (French for ‘encounter’) is forged from...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Tweeter's Recovery
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Ed. 30
Hardy states: “A follow-up to a painting done in 1992 after the L.A. riots which was titled “Bad News (Tweeter is Sick)”. The tattoo bird skirts over the wa...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
You Captured My Heart
Located in Greenwich, CT
You Captured My Heart is a lithograph on paper, 9 x 9 inches image size, and initialed 'BD' lower right. From the edition of 395, numbered 15/275 (there were also 100 Roman and 20 AP...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Brighton - green, pink, blue, contemporary landscape, acrylic and resin on panel
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Peter Hoffer’s landscapes are ethereal, exquisite and masterful. The Canadian artist’s work has often been compared to the paintings rendered by the famed British artist, John Consta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Vintage Rene Ricard Mal de Fin: Paintings 1989-1990 poster with poetry and ocean
By Rene Ricard
Located in New York, NY
Original poster commemorating Rene Ricard's 1990 exhibition Paintings 1989-1990 at the Petersburg Press Gallery, New York. The poster is folded as it was sent out for the original ex...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Titan - contemporary, abstract, totem, bronze, outdoor sculpture
By Viktor Mitic
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This tall, blue, green, abstract, totem, bronze, outdoor sculpture was created by Viktor Mitic, a Canadian sculptor known for his inspired work. Intricately designed abstract shapes ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Tilted Orange - contemporary, geometric abstract, coated steel outdoor sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary orange-colored metal outdoor sculpture is the work of Shayne Dark.
Five tapered shafts of steel emerge from the base in a powerful contemporary composition. The C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
Man in the Shade - figurative, landscape, man, flower, blue
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Man in the Shade, 2023
acrylic on canvas
43 5/16 H x 82 43/64 inches
110 H x 210 W cm
The painting by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the minutes/seconds ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Surfer Kids loading surf boards
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed and numbered in black ink on print margin.
Signed, titled, dated, print date and misc. notations in pencil on print verso
AVAILABLE SIZES:
11 x 14 in., Edition ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
By Alessandro Michele for Valentino. From the Fashion series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
"D", from animal alphabet for dragonfly
By Kelvin Mann
Located in Palm Springs, CA
The single letter "D", from the alphabet, illustrated by dragonflies. All letters are available, and the full set of 27 etchings in folio box is available for $3200. Animals, real an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Yearning 2/9 - male, nude, figurative, statuette, bronze sculpture
By W.W. Hung
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive, and elegant, William Hung creates dynamic sculptures that explore the human condition. With this intimate piece, cast in a rich bronze...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Silent - large, figurative, narrative, bronze outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As part of her ‘Listen to Hear’ series, Canadian artist Marlene Hilton-Moore has sculpted Silent, the lower half of a woman’s face, chin and closed lips set at an angle on the ground...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
On the Conception of the Hip
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plaster, Paint
The Gates (p), from the Project for Central Park, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Located in New York, NY
This offset lithograph in colors from the Project for Central Park, New York City, was created in 2004. One of 300 prints hand-signed by the artist in pencil, from the unnumbered edi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Body, Sepia. Nude. Sepia Limited Edition Photograph
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sepia Color Archival Pigment print
36 x 24 in. Ed of 10
Unframed
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in astrology, he captures these mysterious men through a romantic lens. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blue Matter 2 - matte, blue, textured, abstract, mixed media wall sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Growing up on the Ottawa River, Shayne Dark has long been inspired by the natural world that surrounded him—its myriad of shapes, patterns, forms and colours. In this new intriguing ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Plaster, Paint
Curved Space 48 - large, smooth, abstract, outdoor, white marble sculpture
By Jeremy Guy
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This modern outdoor sculpture was created in marble by Jeremy Guy.
Smooth-surfaced, engineered white marble flecked almost imperceptibly with grey and black sparkles in the light.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stone, Marble
Effervescence White VII - geometric, abstract, powder coated steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary indoor sculpture is hand-forged from steel by Claude Millette. Playful and striking In form this dynamic piece resembles tumbling dice that have been stacked at dar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
Singularity No. 1 - contemporary, ribbon, powder coated steel, wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
As elegant as a cursive signature, this bright yellow contemporary wall sculpture was created by Stefan Duerst. The single ribbon-like form is coated in a flawless glossy paint finis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
Shanghai #3. Nude Portrait Black and White Photograph
By David Jay
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Through David Jay’s photography, context evaporates, and we as the viewer are left to engage the subjects, trade places, and for a moment, live behind their eyes. We recognize our sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Spring Poplar Trees, Pavia, Italy
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 25
Signed, titled, negative date, print date and numbered.
Sepia toned gelatin silver print
Michael Kenna's black and white photographs are powerful and alluring. His ima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
See the World - large, bright, contemporary, painted aluminum, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This evocative contemporary outdoor sculpture was hand-forged by Marie-Ève Fréchette. The Quebec sculptor is known for her bold choices of form and colour often inspired by her early...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Zebra Reaches New Heights 1/15 - figurative, playful, bronze, tabletop sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The contemporary artistic duo of Gillie and Marc are passionate environmental activists who have used their sculptures, paintings and photographs to celebrate and save endangered ani...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Silver Dollar
Located in Greenwich, CT
Silver Dollar is a silver gelatin print on paper by Robert Mapplethorpe, titled, numbered, and dated verso. The print is signed and dated again on the back within his signature stamp...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin
Sanctuary - intricate, nature-inspired, wood and porcelain, wall sculpture
By Paula Murray
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In her Quebec studio, ceramic artist Paula Murray uses her own recipe for porcelain clay that she hand-shapes into beautiful and intricate pieces. Inspired by forms and patterns foun...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and sugarlift print of a Still-Life on a table. Edition of 100.
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
I am fleeting #8 and Mirages #6, Diptych. Color Photography
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Is a project that debates through the photographic image, the importance that humans have assigned to ourselves, and proposes a reconciliation with the reality of our own insignifica...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Areo - large, geometric abstract, contemporary, mild steel, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A collaborative project, artist Javid Jah and fabricator Alex Akbari of Qube Inc. re-designed this series from a recent public art exhibition in downtown Toronto, which was exhibited in collaboration with Roger Mooking and Wyandot artist Catherine Tammaro.
The dynamic geometric form of the three pieces—Terra, Aqua and Aero (the elements of earth, water and air) is inspired by the ideas of cosmology (the study of the universe) and sacred ancestral principles. Forged from steel, light shines through the intricately detailed pattern of perforations on the surface. Each individual sculpture can also be used as a wood burning or gas fire pit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Steel
Rock 80s WHT
Located in Boca Raton, FL
After graduating with an engineering degree, Grossman soon discovered his passion for photography. In 2000, he graduated from NYU and the International Center of Photography with an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print
Plane and Sugar Loaf Mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Located in Denton, TX
Edition of 45
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered.
Michael Kenna's black and white photographs are powerful and alluring. His imagery transports you to iconic and placid landscapes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Twin 2 - colorful, expressive, minimal, abstract, floral, acrylic on canvas
By Pat Service
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Pat Service has painted florals throughout her long career. Here, a single blossom in a stunning celadon and yellow fills the canvas. Reminiscent of Andy Warhol, the Vancouver artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Como comiendo mamón. El Nene. Fom the series Guerreros. Photo collage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Como comiendo mamón. El Nene, 1993
Fom the series Guerreros
Unique Photo collage
Sheet size: 27.5 in. H x 19.5 in. W
Unframed
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
The root of the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Engulfment, Stadium #1. Nude color photograph.
By Javier Rey
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The first encounter I had with the abyss, was arriving to a place that does not exist, a point suspended in time where I am without being. An unreal world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life with Pet
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Times 3 - elegant, blown glass, metal, abstract hanging wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Three blown glass orbs that contain assembled clock works, wheels, sprockets and coils, hang from fine chain in this unique wall sculpture. The elegant orbs in three sizes are define...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Aquagraphie Variation 2 - modern, geometric abstract, outdoor steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A rectangular, steel outdoor sculpture in black is divided into three parts, like a puzzle, the edges polished and reflective. This seven-foot upright is mirrored in three reflective steel puddle shapes installed at its base. Inspired by the graphic design of river maps...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Half Angels Half Demons #13, Nude in a landscape black and white photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Half Angels Half Demons #13, 2005 by Mauricio Velez
Black and White Photography
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 40 in. H x 60 in. W
Edition of 9 + 2AP
"In a few photographers li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Wildlife blue and white landscape of wolves and tree by fine italian painter
Located in Milan, IT
Nicola Magrin was born in Milan in 1978. In 2004 he graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan with a thesis on Miquel Barceló.
In 2008 he was selected for a three...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor
Kissing - Contemporary British Art, Animal Photography, Tim Flach, Monkeys
By Tim Flach
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days.
'Kissing' is a stunning C-Type print by contemporary British photographer Tim ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Deliverance 3/5 - tall, bronze, balancing, nude, male figure, outdoor sculpture
By W.W. Hung
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The unique contemporary figurative sculptures of William Hung often express the human condition and are imbued with emotion. This striking piece, cast in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Press - tall, steam-punk inspired, human face, lead, aluminum and iron sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This steam-punk inspired metal sculpture incorporates Dunning's mask motif in metal print typeface and a re-purposed cast iron squeeze jolt molding machine. This machine was used to press sand in a flask around a pattern for molds used by foundries. The powerful 6.5 foot tall indoor sculpture...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
The Beat Goes On
By Mark Kostabi
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Beat Goes On is an oil on canvas painting, 31.5 x 23.75" canvas size, signed on the front ‘KOSTABI 2023’ lower left, and signed, titled and dated verso....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pseudo Hercules - Man, 21st Century, Mythological, Yellow, Animal
Located in Baden-Baden, DE
Pseudo Hercules, 2021
acrylic on canvas,
78 ⁴⁷/₆₄ H x 47 ¹/₄ W inches
200 H x 120 W cm
The painting by Alexandru Rădvan is about our moments of 'respiro' about the minutes/seconds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
La Grande Chaise - textured, male figurative, paper Mache and aluminum Sculpture
By Paul Duval
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Equally fun and compelling, this new contemporary sculpture from Paul Duval immediately engages the viewer. On a large metal chair (la grande chaise) painted a bright blue, a figure ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wire
THE NOSE, photogravure, aquatint and drypoint, signed and numbered, Ed. of 70
Located in New York, NY
This is a monochromatic photogravure, aquatint and drypoint on Hahnemuhle Copperplate warm white paper. Created in 2010, it is signed in pencil lower right and numbered from the edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
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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