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
Luminous Beach
Located in Burlingame, CA
Luminous Beach - The painting was created in 2025 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Praying for World Peace in the Sunlight
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Manchester, GB
Yayoi Kusama, Praying for World Peace in the Sunlight, 2016
Vivid inkjet colours on synthetic paper. Stamped by Yayoi Kusama Foundation
59.4 x 74.1 cm
Unknown edition size
The ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée
Priestess Of The Flowers
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A statement piece in Neo-Classicism and one of Berlin's stunning "Flowers for Athena" works. Appearing in a shower of gold with powdered hues of vermillion, cadmium red and turquoise...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
My thoughts flood back to you - warm pink and gold abstract painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
A warm, enveloping ethereal painting, made for contemplation and wonder. A story that never ends, is never the same. A romance. A dreamscape.
That is "My thoughts flood back to you",...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 532
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 532, 2011
Photographs from the photography book entitled Hotel Chelsea (publisher pointed leaf press 2013).
C-print archival
Size: 20 H x 30 W in.
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Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Frozen Apple Trees - Limited Edition, Black and White Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnem...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Amas Luna Storm III" Nude Photography 24" x 36" in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Located in Culver City, CA
"Amas Luna Storm III" Nude Photography 24" x 36" in Ed. 1/7 by Aaron Mcpolin
Archival Giclee Print & Museum Framed
NOT framed. Ships in a tube.
OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE:
Edition o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pink Peonies, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Pink peonies rest gracefully in a round vase, their interwining stems create a sense of structure within the organic display. Two fallen buds rest just below, e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Walled Off Hotel Flower Thrower Wall Sculpture
By Banksy
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Super iconic and instantly recognizable Flower Thrower image featured on this Banksy Walled Off Hotel wall sculpture.
This image was originally painted by Banksy in the West Bank are...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Step Beyond
Located in Storrs, CT
"A Step Beyond" is part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series that uses his abstract PhotoLuminism technique combined with trees from the real world to create an otherworld...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Burlesque Series, Belles of Shoreditch, The Whoopee Club, London
Located in Cambridge, GB
Belles of Shoreditch, Richard Heeps photograph taken backstage at the London Burlesque event The Whoopee Club.
Richard Heeps became well-known for his Burlesque Photography after he...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Barn in Afternoon, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A two-story red barn and a small shed sit quietly on the land. Sunlight washes over the landscape while a shadowed path leads through the scene. Autumn trees pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
"My Red Butterfly" Contemporary Pop Art Oil Painting with Black 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 Butterfly Collection” is a vibrant and energetic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Closed Doors and Keyholes (Pastel Gestural Painting, Architectural Abstraction
Located in Hudson, NY
Closed Doors and Keyholes (Abstract Gestural Pastel Palette Square Oil Painting) by Ragellah Rourke
2024
oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
The sides are cleanly painted so framing is opti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tuscany Cypress Road, Amazing Clouds, Italy, landscape photo, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Unity II by Delphine Brabant - Abstract Bronze Sculpture, Geometric
Located in Paris, FR
Unity II, is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Delphine Brabant. 25 cm × 12 cm × 12 cm. Limited edition of 8 + 4 A.P.
Fascinated with the concept of construction, De...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Summer - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, securing a Master of Art degree. He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hope - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women, Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Top...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem, Currency, Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Currency
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Bee Line - Rainbow Abstract Patterns Circles Stripes Blue Yellow Orange, 2023
By Josette Urso
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, thoughtfully combined sections of varying textures and areas of pattern, stripes, circles, dots and undulations are cheerful in bright, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dig
Located in Manchester, GB
Andrew Scott, Dig, 2024
Giclee print of 315 gsm etching cotton rag paper
45 x 33 cm (17.7 x 13 in)
Edition of 250
Frame included
Hand-signed and n...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Giclée
Bob Dylan, "The Drawn Blank Series, " rare complete box set with two lithographs
By Bob Dylan
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan: The Drawn Blank Series, Drawings and Paintings
Book Size: 13.5 x 10 inches
November 2013
Included Lithographs on Somerset Satin:
1. Woman on a Bed 12 x 9 inche...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Icarus, Nude, Fine Art Photography
Located in München, BY
Image size 55 x 70 cm
Limited Edition of 12
Platinum Print
Framed with Wengé and Passepartout
Framed Size 92 x 112 cm
signed on extra certificate
Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Platinum
Taupe 4 - Abstract Colorful Original Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elisabeth Grace, a visionary artist based in Denver, CO (USA), is renowned for her immersive large-scale paintings, collages, murals, and installation art. With a BA in oil painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
I Castelli Romani - Vintage Poster after Neal Slavin - 1983
By Neal Slavin
Located in Roma, IT
I Castelli Romani is a splendid poster realized by Neal Slavin, in 1983, for the exhibition held in Rondanini Gallery in Rome.
Offset print, in very good conditions.
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Offset
Pink Kioveo by Jacques Owczarek - Animal sculpture of a hippopotamus, polymer
Located in Paris, FR
Pink Kioveo is a polymer sheathed with crocodile skin sculpture by contemporary artist Jacques Owczarek, dimensions are 17 × 30 × 13 cm (6.7 × 11.8 × 5.1 in).
The sculpture is signe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Animal Skin, Polymer
Lights of Mong Kok, Hong Kong - Asian Architecture Street Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Lights of Mong Kok, Kowloon, Asian architecture photograph by Richard Heeps.
The artwork captures the spirit of walking the streets in Hong Kong, the overwhelming buzz of the compet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Schism - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Schism - 2021
60x80cm,
Edition of 5 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1083.
Not mounte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
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
Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse', Lithograph, 1961
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: 'La Ronde de la Jeunesse (The Youth Circle)'
Year: 1961
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Printed by Mourlot
Edition: 200 plus EA
Size: 26 x 20 inches
Signed and numbered in pencil by the master
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY INCLUDED
ARTWORK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
Through the use of crisp vibrant colors and the fluid use of line, Picasso creates a sense of optimistic energy that is focused around the dove of peace in Pablo Picasso La Ronde de la Jeunesse...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Oil Painting On Canvas, Mixed Media, Contemporary Art. “Blue dream”
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
Constructive figurative oil painting on canvas in mixed technique with blue and violet tones. It is part of a series where I explore the relationships between animals and humans. It ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Charcoal, Pen
Mirage
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
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
Jean Rene Bazaine 'Composition VIII' 1968- Lithograph Vintage
By Jean Bazaine
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph page titled Composition VIII is part of the Derrière le Miroir (DLM) No. 170 series, showcasing the work of the French artist René Bazaine. Known for his contribution...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Wrestlers VIII by Yann Guillon - Contemporary bronze sculpture, male athletes
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Wrestler VIII is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 47 × 44 × 29 cm (18.5 × 17.3 × 11.4 in).
This sculpture is signed and numbered, it is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Plum and Pomegranate (set of 2), original painting, oil paint
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Juicy Plum 2c 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
Canvas, Oil
Unity I by Delphine Brabant - Abstract geometric bronze sculpture, balance, form
Located in Paris, FR
Unity I is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Delphine Brabant, dimensions are 31 × 21 × 10 cm (12.2 × 8.3 × 3.9 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a li...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Olympia - Poster - Vintage Poster by Francesco Clemente - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Olympia - Poster is a vintage poster realized by the italian artist Francesco Clemente (Naples, 1952) in occasion of the XIV Winter Olympics games in Sarajevo, in 1984.
Very good co...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Pablo Picasso (After), 'Vive le Paix (Long Live Peace) Lithograph, 1954
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: Vive le Paix (Long Live Peace)
Year: 1954
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Lithograph on Lana paper (Blind stamp JPG attached)
P...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
ZT 241216 - contemporary modern multi-color abstract geometric painting relief
Located in Doetinchem, NL
ZT 241216 is a unique one-of-a-kind medium size contemporary modern painting relief by Dutch artist Herman Coppus. This bas-relief relief consists of a meticulously hand cut, folded ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cardboard, Acrylic
Guardain Cat by Helle Crawford, Contemporary bronze cat animal sculpture
Located in DE
Even though Helle Rask Crawford often refers to classic myths in her sculptures, sh is not a classical sculptor in the neoclassical sense. Rather, Helle Crawford could be defined as ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze, Gold
White Cliffs Panorama, Large Scale Color Photograph, Seascape, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art seascape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
"best in the west" framed vintage ephemera collage embellished with crystals
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"best in the west" is an original piece by Danielle Krysa, who curates vintage imagery with feminine embellishments to create trophy silhouettes in her newest UNDEFEATED series. This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Glitter, Found Objects
Don't Let Them Burst Your Bubble: Blue II - contemporary, glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary glass wall sculpture was created by Cheryl Wilson Smith. The artist is known for her ethereal glass pieces that are often inspired by the rugged natural beauty that...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Naples, Italy, Cats, Black and White Street Photography 1950s
Located in New york, NY
American Photographer Leonard Freed travelled extensively and enjoyed Italy - a country he returned to often and photographed throughout his long photographic career. Cats, Naples, I...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art
Materials
Film, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Lost
By TankPetrol
Located in Manchester, GB
Tankpetrol, Lost, 2023
Acrylic, hand-cut stencils, spray paint copper paint on deep edge canvas
100 x 150 cm (39.37 x 59.05 in)
Original artwork
Polish-born Irek Jasutowicz bett...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
An accumulation of Experiences - figurative, bronze, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This figurative, bronze, outdoor sculpture is by Roch Smith. Inspired by life’s big questions, Roch Smith creates thoughtful and playful contemporary sculptures. This figure cast in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Gay Sexuality
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The lithograph titled "Gay Sexuality" by Kees Ruyter, measuring 33 x 23.25 inches, explicitly addresses themes related to gay sexuality, as indicated by its title. While specific det...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Unity III by Delphine Brabant - Abstract geometric bronze sculpture, balance
Located in Paris, FR
Unity III is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Delphine Brabant, dimensions are 73 × 14 × 17 cm (28.7 × 5.5 × 6.7 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
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
Pablo Picasso (After), 'La Colombe de L'avenir, 1962'
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: PABLO PICASSO (AFTER )
Title: La Colombe de L'avenir
Year: 1962
Published by: Combat Pour La Paix, Paris
Medium: Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Printed by Mourlot
Edition: 200...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Hope Echoes
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler’s dazzling contemporary water reflection acrylic paintings bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet with a little di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Study for As If Two - Contemporary Abstract Painting Yellow Purple Stripes, 2024
By Audrey Stone
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in acrylic on Yupo paper, gradient stripes of color in pale yellow and magenta purple are vibrant and carefully ordered. Signed, dated and titl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Now That We Are Here - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Now That We Are Here resonates deeply with anyone who has ever reached a milestone, achieved a long-sought goal, or transitioned into a new phase of life. It is a phrase that echoes ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tulip Fields 14 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial floral photography, Netherlands, frame
Located in Paris, FR
Aerial Views, Tulip Fields 14 is a limited-edition photograph by German contemporary artist Bernhard Lang.
This photograph is a limited edition of 10 copies, it is sold framed with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
Poptic Nine - Contemporary Geometric Abstract Mandala Yellow Blue Peach, 2020
By Mary Judge
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary geometric abstract drawing has a beautiful, soft mottled texture created with Judge's unique powered pigment technique. Poptic 09 is a predominately yellow, orange ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Pigment
By the sea Hélène Duclos Contemporary art painting blue landscape sky
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
The red necklace of the naked Queens
“My artistic research has expanded over the years, crossing paths already traveled a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Celandine - Botanical Painting Gold Flowers Leaves Stem Buds, 2021
By Margot Glass
Located in Kent, CT
This delicate, contemporary botanical drawing is made with gold acrylic on cradled panel, painted black. The exploration of ephemerality, and the fragility of a wild celandine flower...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
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.