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
Curved Laurel Tree, minimalist photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 8. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Tranquil Abstract Landscape on Textured Canvas by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled, c. 21st century
Mixed media on canvas
20 x 23 3/4 in.
Framed: 25 3/4 x 31 x 1 3/4 in.
Signed verso: Osma
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Still Life with Fruit - Oil Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1968.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes a beautiful wooden frame, one-of-a-kind realized by the Artist cm. 59x68.5.
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Eduardo Chillida
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an offset lithograph portrait of Eduardo Chillida, published in Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 143. Known for its high-quality reproductions, Derrière le Miroir featured works ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
$20 Sale Price
20% Off
"My Aqua in Time Heart" Ocean Blue Oil Painting on Wood with White Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Werner Bronkhorst - Going Tandem - Cycling
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Going Tandem, 2024
Gicleé print on Hahnemuhle Daguerre Canvas, framed in Tasmanian Oak
42.5 × 32 cm (16 7/10 × 12 3/5 in)
Edition of 42
Hand-signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink, Giclée
Silk Flutters in the Woods by Rene Gonzalez - forest landscape with butterflies
Located in Paris, FR
Silk Flutters in the Woods is an acrylic on canvas by artist Rene Gonzalez, portraying butterflies dancing above a water puddle in a spellbinding nocturn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Yoshitomo Nara - Missing in Action
Located in London, GB
Yoshitomo Nara
Missing in Action
Offset lithograph on paper
Sheet size: 51.5 x 36.4 cm
Stamped with title, artist's name, copyright and year
published by N's Yard, Japan
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
The Bride's Kiss - including the book 'A Half Forgotten Dream'
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Bride’s Kiss (Till Death Do Us Part), 2010
including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
''Untitled 22'' Contemporary Mixed Media Painting with Purple Flowers on Beige
By Jean-François Debongnie
Located in Utrecht, NL
Jean-Francois Debongnie, born in Brussels, has lived in Singapore since 1989.
Debongnie is a self-taught artist and prefers large canvases on which he explores themes that inspire ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Acrylic
Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in Car for “To Catch a Thief”
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white film still of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant posed in car for the film “To Catch a Thief”, circa 1955.
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 American romantic thriller film directe...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Peony - 21st Century contemporary Hyper realistic oil painting of a peony flower
By JP Marsman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jean Paul Marsman (Dutch artist)
Peony
20 x 20 cm (framed, included in price 23 x 23 cm)
Oil paint on wood
Craftsmanship: The work is painted so realistically that everything seems...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Haven
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
$450
Faith Ringgold 'Groovin' High' 1996- Serigraph Unsigned, Printer's Proof
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a printer’s proof of Groovin’ High, created by the esteemed artist and civil rights activist Faith Ringgold. Unlike the official edition, this p...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Suspended Grace
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
$3,600
Washeteria Looking In, London - Vintage interior photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Washeteria - Looking In, vintage interior photograph from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of London. "I discovered this launderette while London was in lockdown during the pand...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Pink Peonies, Oil Painting
By Pat Doherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Pink peonies and white blossoms fill a blue and white ceramic vase. A soft purple background contrasts with a green surface, creating a lively and charming sc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
"Cloudy Vision" Contemporary Longhorn Framed Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Baltimore, MD
“Cloudy Vision” is a framed oil on canvas painting by Sherri Belassen, presenting a stylized longhorn against a vibrant blue sky, rendered with a mix of abstraction and texture. The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Paint
In The Sky (35/50) - Steel Figurative Sculpture with Glossy Red Balloon
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nayla Saroufim creates installations that challenge the traditional notion of the passive viewer. Nayla’s art is a rich mix of media. She was always captivated by the dialogue betwee...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Steel
River - Snowflake Lines Dots Pattern Drawing Blue Pink, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In carefully drawn dots and lines in soft shades of indigo blue with pink, green, yellow and dark red details, this intricate composition is inspired by patterns in nature. This draw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Graphite
Calm
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
Life in Motion - Original Abstract Multicolor Street Art Painting
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, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Randal Ford - Flamingo No. 2, Photography 2018, Printed After
By Randal Ford
Located in Greenwich, CT
Available Sizes:
37.5 x 30 in Edition of 15
50 x 40 in Edition of 10
60 x 48 in Edition of 5
Alejandra: Alejandra made us take our hats off, Mother Nature never fails to impress, an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Summer Flowers Yayoi Kusama floral abstract signed print
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition of 100
53 x 61 cm (20.9 x 24 in)
Framed 71 x 78.5 x 5 cm, 28 x 31 x 2 in
Signed, numbered, dated and titled on the front
Excellent condition. Minor imperfections ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Summer View on the Hill, Abstract, Contemporary, landscape, nature
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer View on the Hill. This oil painting by landscape artist Alexa Roscoe continues her exploration of the view from her home in Oxfordshire. Returning to this familiar scene, Alex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pine Cone 24-240 - large, rusted, contemporary, Corten steel, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This large, rusted, contemporary, Corten steel, outdoor sculpture was created by artist Floyd Elzinga.
Canadian sculptor Floyd Elzinga’s pine cones have become one of his signature ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Steel
Buongiorno Professore! - Mixed Media by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Pastel and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Very good condition. Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Includes a contemporary wooden frame 108.5x84....
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor
Abstract Water Lillies, original painting, landscape, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
A second vibrant Monet inspired abstract expressive and energetic painting. Revisiting the old master and analysing the marks, colour and detail in his paintings. This is my take on ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Lignes brisées modern grey black architectural painting relief
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Ligne brisée is a new small size contemporary modern sculpture painting relief by French-Dutch artist Olivier Julia. The relief is made from oak wood and finished with a mixture of a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
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
All that Glitters ain't Gold
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
All that Glitters ain't Gold - 2017,
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inven...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Photographic Paper
Self Portrait - Oil on Canvas by Sirio Pellegrini - 1969
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed lower right.
Includes a wooden frame 37.5x27 cm.
Very good condition.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Redwood Forest Mammut Trees California Monochrome Limited Edition Landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art American Landscape Photograph. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
PG 17, Coral Red Stripe, Light Green, Dark Sage Abstract Geometric
Located in Kent, CT
In this abstract vertical painting in colored pencil and acrylic on canvas by Elizabeth Gourlay, a thick, vertical stripe in a coral shade of red orange is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Seascapes 4, 2020 - Grassy Marshland in Ancient Forest Nature and Woodland
By Ellie Davies
Located in Brighton, GB
Seascapes 4, 2020 - Grassy Marshland in Ancient Forest Nature and Woodland by Ellie Davies
Seascapes 4 is a stunning Digital C-Type Print on Fuji Maxima Matte paper, available in th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Color
Clementine Small Pocket Painting 4c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Small Clementine 4c 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
Canvas, Oil
Summer still life, 61x43cm, gouache, paper
Located in Yerevan, AM
Summer still life
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
$750 Sale Price
25% Off
All Living Things - Abstract Contemporary Folk Art Inspired Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker's “All Living Things” is a stunning example of contemporary folk art that blends botanical motifs and symbolic imagery to evoke a sense of interconnectedness and harm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
They loved riding together in Paris 23/100 - figurative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Australia’s Gillie and Marc, the contemporary artist duo, continue to create their popular, humorous dogman, rabbit-woman hybrid imagery in this new bronze sculpture. The playful hum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Velocity Bloom, Contemporary Abstract Painting by Matt Higgins
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This large-scale oil painting on a wood panel bursts with kinetic energy and bold color, dominated by a vivid red background that envelops and contrasts with dynamic strokes of blue,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Flatiron Building Study 1 New York City
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
After Botero - Seated Nude Woman 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
$900 Sale Price
50% Off
Flight Pattern - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological forma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype
Spring by Christophe Dupety - Contemporary painting, Flora, bright colors
Located in Paris, FR
Spring (2023) by French contemporary artist Christophe Dupety. Oil on canvas, H 80 cm W 120 cm.
This series focuses on floral motifs: Poppies, Catalpa flowers or Spindles. Christoph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunbeams - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 35x23"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater black and white nude photograph of a young woman wrapped in sunbeams.
There were five grandpianos at her house, a pool on the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Tea Cups - 21st Century Realistic Still-life Painting of Tableware
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Heidi von Faber (Dutch artist)
Tea Cups
30 x 30 cm (framed, included in price 33 x 33 cm)
Acryl on canvas
In the paintings of The Hague-based artist Heidi von Faber, light plays a k...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
There There
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
"Reserved Horizon XX" Contemporary Abstract Landscape Oil on Panel Framed
By Eric Abrecht
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Reserved Horizon XX" is a framed oil painting on panel by Eric Abrecht, depicting an abstracted marshy landscape with warm coloring. The artist's technique of painterly, rough brush...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Reclined Nude - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Charcoal and oil pastel on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 44x34.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel
Divide - 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography, Contemporary
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Divide'
2016, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs
Based on a Polaroid, digital C-Print, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-789
Kirsten Thys...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
One Light - immersive infinite perceptual ambient light wall sculpture
By Raymond Graber
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raymond Graber‘s celestial light sculptures transform the sense of perception, challenging the human eye’s sense for scale and time with a transcendenta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Lights, LED Light, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Neon Light
"A Time To Remember" Contemporary Oil On Canvas Framed Painting
Located in Baltimore, MD
"A Time To Remember" is a framed contemporary oil on canvas painting by Amy Donaldson featuring a vibrant, abstract impression of a water garden, reminiscent of Monet’s water lilies ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Wild Water Canyon landscape photograph limited edition fine art archival print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Wild Water Canyon Study 1, Austria - no. 18147
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography print.
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titl...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Composition 174 by Sean Thornhill - Contemporary Relief Geometric Wall Sculpture
Located in DE
Sean Thornhill is an artist and designer based in Cambridgeshire, creating from the serenity of his garden studio. Drawing inspiration from the bold geometry of Bauhaus and the raw a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, House Paint, Acrylic, Cardboard
Been There - Large Vibrant Sunset Ocean Landscape Skyscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jodi Miller captivates with her atmospheric landscapes, inspired by the vast skies of her prairie upbringing and her global travels in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Influenced by the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Something on My Mind"
By Ron Hicks
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1965, Ron Hicks was an avid artist from an early age. Hicks began his formal studies in art at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. Hicks contin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY, 2022" photograph "HOOPS" series, 17"x20.5"
Located in New York, NY
35" 42"" fine art photograph, hand signed by the artist. This color photograph depicts a basketball court in Van Cordlant Park, Bronx, NY. The photo show a basketball court, shiny, a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
You turn from Me (Till Death do us Part) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Women
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
You turn from Me (Till Death do us Part) - 2005,
20x20cm,
Edition 1/10,
digital C-Print print, based on the Polaroid,
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 9555....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
"Veiled Morn" Contemporary Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas Framed
By Eric Abrecht
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Veiled Morn" is a framed oil painting on canvas by Eric Abrecht, depicting an abstracted landscape with warm coloring. The artist's technique of painterly, smooth brushstrokes gives...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Pumpkin (White T)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 102 of 120
83.5 × 70.5 cm (32.9 x 27.8 in)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on front
Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Only visible under stud...
Category
20th Century 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.