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
Casanova
Located in New York, NY
Vibrant, Picasso-style piece.
About the artist:
Born in 1963 in Cali, Colombia, Diego Velez is a self-taught painter who began painting at the age of 6 years old. Velez is always ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
The rebirth of nudity Mohammad Ariyaei 21st Century art Outsider Iranian paint
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Hand-signed lower right
« Here the barbaric or savage ceremonies of New Guinea take on the air of Rio carnival.
Here the vitality bursts and the colors dance...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
No. 13
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Piccillo is a skilled draftsman, and his nuanced use of shadow and scale highlight this ability. Joseph Piccillo’s signature graphite and charcoal drawings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite
Doom Hey Blue
Located in Santa Monica, CA
In this series of portraits, Birch materializes enigmatic, ectoplasmic figures in his psychologically charged canvases linking sympathies between external forces and interior emotion...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting landscape animal bird crow
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Africa Electric TV - Philippe Jacq, 21st Century, Contemporary painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on textile and embroidery on canvas
Signed by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Tapestry, Canvas, Acrylic
SAKE Bottle
Located in Dallas, TX
This ceramic work is from artist Keita Suto’s “dress” series. Suto (b. 1982, Ibaraki prefecture) obtained his Masters in Fine Arts from the Kyoto University of Art and Design (2007). He creates intentionally broken or contorted objects with wet clay, then with his contemporary take on the traditional kintsugi process of repairing ceramics...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Dambala spirito, Barbara d'Antuono, 21st Century Contemporary textile art
Located in Paris, FR
Hand sewn textile painting
Unique piece
Signed and dated lower left by the artist
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Textile
JAM ON BREAD - Food Still Life / Pop Art / Photorealism / Kitchen
Located in New York, NY
A British-born, American based painter, Richard Combes focuses his subjects on the forgotten or the forlorn, perhaps indications or remnants of a time before.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Faux Couple
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Escorpión - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Complete title: Escorpión Negro
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Richard Potter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
CALM WHISPERS - STATE 2 - Waterscape / Reflections / Contemporary Art
Located in New York, NY
Original photograph by artist Susan Goldsmith.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
Ango Areoli
Located in Zürich, ZH
Nelio Sonego was born in Switzerland, in Sion, in 1955. He attended and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with Emilio Vedova, from whom he assimilated the gestural an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Ceramic Gold-Plating Sculpture-Series Animal Zodiac- Rat
Located in Beijing, CN
The sculpture is signed and numbered. Edition 20/99.
About the Artwork:
The Chinese Zodiac can’t be ignored in the traditional culture of China.
It’s closely interconnected with the social customs and habits, the aesthetic taste and the opinion of value. The Twelve animals of Year represent the traditional Chinese wisdom that the laws of Nature governs all things and that man must seek harmony with Nature. I created this Series of twelve zodiac animals made of gold and pottery, trying to give the “zodiac”-this long-standing cultural symbols a meaning of the prosperity and the luckiness. –He Wenjue
About the artist:
He Wenjue was born in 1970 in Hunan Province, China. He received his MA in painting from Jilin Academy of Fine Arts. Member of Chinese Art Association, Member of Chinese Painting Association.The vice-President of Hunan Oil-Painting Association. Research Fellow of Beijing Academy of China Xieyi Oil Painting.He is currently the vice president of Hunan Oil Painting Society, a member of China Artists Association and a member of Chinese Oil Painting Society.
His works have been displayed on exhibitions at“Scenery in Map”ShangHai Solo Exhibition、Solo Exhibition, Frank Schlag Gallery, Essen, Germany、Sense of the Sparkle: He Wenjue Singapore Solo Exhibition, Singapore、Water: Senses of Sparkle, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand、The 9th & The 10th National Annual Fine Arts Exhibition、The first Chinese Freehand Brushwork Oil Painting、4th Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, 6th BICMA ,、Painting the Present, Certosa di San Giacomo, Via Certosa 1 - Capri, Capri, Italy、The 2nd Chinese Oil Painting Biennale, The National Art Museum of China、The Xinjiang International Art Biennial 2014、Ethics as the DNA Art: The 9th Florence Biennale、SEA OF PEACE: Japan-Korea Contemporary Art Exhibition, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea、Faces and Figures, Germany、East side, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, Germany、Vanhaerents Museum Collection, Brussel Belgium、China...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold
White Butterfly
By Perry Burns
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist's Statement: "My paintings are an attempt to synthesize and enlighten pursuits of eastern and western art and their traditions. Using the full visual language of abstraction –...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
River Nicolas Kennett 21st Century art Contemporary sculpture terracotta victory
Located in Paris, FR
Unique terracotta sculpture
Signed on the base
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Terracotta
Spare Time 16
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An ink and watercolor on handmade paper painting by contemporary Chinese artist Zeng Jianyong. "Spare Time 16" is executed in pastel watercolors and depicts an anthropomorphic portra...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media
Genealogical spaces #6 - Hélène Duclos, 21st Century, Painting
Located in Paris, FR
2 oil paintings on canvas composing a diptyc
Signed lower right by the artist
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gray rhombohedron (F)
Located in Paris, IDF
Bruno DESPLANQUES
(Born in 1966, France)
Grey rhombohedron (F)
Enamelled Baillet clay
H. 14 cm ; L. 14 cm ; P. 14 cm
2021
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel
Optimist I - Black and White Limited Edition Horse Portrait 2015
By Juan Lamarca
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Optimist I, 2019 by Juan Lamarca
Fine art archival cotton paper
Image size: 40 x 30 inches
Edition 1 of 10 plus 2 AP
Unframed
Juan Lamarca's Horse Series, is an abstract collection ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
YELLOW, GREEN, BLACK, WHITE - Contemporary Realism / Still Life Color Apples
Located in New York, NY
Original still life painting by Edward A. Butler.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Twig Arrangement in front of Garden Arrangement - Grey blue
By Bruce McLean
Located in London, GB
A painting by contemporary Scottish sculptor, painter and performance artist Bruce McLean.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Lady of the Lake Louis-Paul Ordonneau Contemporary painting art landscape nude
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Hand-signed on the back by the artist
Louis-Paul Ordonneau is a French painter born in 1975.
He lives and works in Paris.
In 1999, he set up his studio in tempo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Quiet, The Dove (from The Book of LOVE)" silkscreen print by Robert Indiana
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Quiet, The Dove (Book of LOVE)" silkscreen print from a portfolio of 12 original poems and 12 original prints by artist Robert Indiana. Edition 58/200. The prints in the portfolio w...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Veduta
Located in Paris, IDF
Nikolai MAKAROV
(Born in 1952)
Veduta
Acrylic on canvas mounted on panel
Signed lower right
70 x 50 cm
2015
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Trapped
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A mixed media work by Merion Estes. "Trapped" is a contemporary abstract, fabric collage, acrylic on fabric in a palette of blacks, reds, and yellows by American female artist Merion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Surf Journals, Series 1: December 4, 1981
Located in Fairfield, CT
Tony Caramanico, famed Montauk-based surfer, created a life around surfing since the first day he picked up a board in 1963- a day he fondly recalls. Though his surfing has taken him...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Pigment
"Dioscuri" oil painting figurative female portrait stockings
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Rachel Bess
Dioscuri, 2019
oil on Dibond
18" x 12" unframed
21.5 x 15.5" framed
Rachel Bess is known for her precise and theatrical oil paintings that b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Trofeos I - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Trofeos - Homenaje a Picasso I
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Rosas Marinas
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Eight parts piece piezography, mounted on acrylic by emulsion.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment, Emulsion
Persephone III - large format photograph of a timeless environmental still
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from the body of works 'Persephone', a series of environmental still-life photographs of timeless palimpsest impressions
Persephone III by Erik Pawassar
40 x 31 inches (102 x 79cm)
signed edition of 25
62 x 48 inches (157 x 122cm)
signed edition of 7
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on label
custom/larger sizes are available on request
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Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph.
Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Movement II - Surf Photography Color Limited Edition Archival Print, Signed 2016
By Juan Lamarca
Located in Bal Harbour, FL
Movement II, 2016 by Juan Lamarca
Fine art archival cotton paper
Image size: 40 x 30 inches
Edition 1 of 16 plus 2 AP
Unframed
Movement II, Surf Photography...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
When the sun goes down - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary painting
By Julien Calot
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Signed
Unique work
Julien CALOT
Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal exhibition "Passenge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stones XVIII - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Painting, Mixed Media
By Jon Errazu
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"My work is characterized by forms and lines. The relationship between background and figure is repeated persistently in each of my works. The figure, simple and almost always quadri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled
By Christian Rosa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract oil on canvas by Brazilian contemporary artist Christian Rosa. This large format, untitled oil is executed in bright yellow, black, red and blue in a subdued, neutral pal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Infrared - Study 2
By Antoine Rose
Located in Knokke-Heist, VWV
Fine art photograph by Antoine Rose from his "Up in the Air" series
Limited edtion of 8 + 2 AP's
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Valencia : Never Frozen
Located in Nashville, TN
This contemporary piece from Danielle Krysa asks the viewer if beauty can be born from the wreckage of whatever each of our personal setbacks may be. The piece was created for Krysa'...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Brass
"Bleary" 35 MM Ilford black and white photograph by Sofia Malamute
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Bleary" 35MM Ilford black and white photograph by fine art and fashion photographer Sofia Malamute. Photograph of model Jamie Bochert shot for MAD Fall/Winter 2014. Image size 25 x ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
23042 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Mixed Media
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Martí Bofarull’s work fits in with renovation of the urban landscape that has characterized Catalan painting of the last twenty years. Among our artists who have remained loyal to f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Nyeja Blind Study" Figurative Nude, Silver Gelatin Fiber Print, Hand Toned
Located in New York, NY
Lynn Bianchi is a New York City-based, fine art photographer and multimedia artist. She has shown work in over thirty solo exhibitions and in museums worl...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color, Silver Gelatin
Fast Track
By Jim Rennert
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9 + APs
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
TRIMMED TREES - Contemporary Landscape / Realism / Nature Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Landscape painting by New Jersey artist Anita Mazzucca.
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rituals #1 Hélène Duclos, 21st Century Contemporary figurative art, orange green
Located in Paris, FR
Gouache, color pencil and graphite on paper
Signed lower right
Unique work
1 / Hélène DUCLOS, 2016 – Artist Statement
“Questioning the human condition and the position of being ali...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite
Megalopolis Lights - 21st Century, Contemporary, Landscape, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Atmosphere -masses of evaporating water in the air- describes Ekaterina Smirnova's paintings best. Working in watercolour, Smirnova has a unique approach to this traditional medium. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seascape VII - large format photograph of cloud formations and reflecting sea
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph of dramatic cloud formations and reflecting sea
SEASCAPE VII by Frank Schott
58 x 58 inches ( 147 x 147cm )
signed edition of 7
48 x 48 inches ( 12...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Giclée, Archival ...
Nudo II - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Recycled Objects
By Lukas Ulmi
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Lukas Ulmi’s work unveils the hidden beauty of shapes taking stones, seemingly static forms, incomplete or meaningless objects and turning them into authent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Iron
Happy Pack
Located in WINDSOR, AU
Hand-signed by artist, back side, bottom part of the artwork
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
211
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean BIJOUX
(XX)
211
Acrylic painting and gold leaf on vellum
Signed lower middle
H. 27 cm ; L. 18 cm
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vitruvian Woman
Located in Greenwich, CT
Figurative sculpture of a woman standing like Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man".
Edition of 21
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
16724 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting, Mixed Media, Canvas
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"Martí Bofarull’s work fits in with renovation of the urban landscape that has characterized Catalan painting of the last twenty years. Among our art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Pájaro Chino - 21st Cent, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
5TH DIMENSIONAL LOVE MACHINE
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas
Black exterior frame
Signed on the front
Framed dimensions: 163x269(x5)cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled
By Mary Mitsuda
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic on wood panel painting executed in deep burgundy, yellow, blue and black by contemporary artist Mary Mitsuda.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Beyond Nicolas Kennett 21st Century British painting character skyscape black
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on wood panel
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
How the Rich do Street Art - Naples Arch
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is.
Street Art from the rich is to be found on every corner in Naples. It's a city with perhaps more flowers than weeds. Hedge Fun is a series that celebrates the landscaping commissioned by well-heeled homeowners, high-end condos and ritzy commercial establishments. Shrubs, bushes, and trees are transformed from organic shapes into man-made graphics. They become stripped of surrounding detail to the point that they become abstract in their impact. On any given day in South Florida, there is an army of landscaping trucks with gardeners and groundsmen working meticulously to beautify the street scape...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
"Divine Garden Series #268", Mark Whitmarsh, Contemporary White Flowers, 48x36
Located in Dallas, TX
“As I build layers of color, a personal iconography evolves on the painted surface. I’m
interested in a surface that has a rich patina with a modern ancestry. By adding and
subtracti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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