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.
$2,065
Aquaculture Structures Study 4, Italy – Minimalist Black-and-White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21158 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$5,164
Diving Platform Panorama – Large Format Colour Seascape Fine Art Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 3 // Gallery ID: 21312 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,000
Arctia Caja Manchuria - Insect Photograph Black Orange Ivory Moth Spots, 2018
Located in Kent, CT
In this hyper-detailed archival pigment print on watercolor paper, an orange moth with black spots and a black and white pattern on the top half of its wings is dramatic against a so...
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Birch – Minimalist Black-and-White Fine Art Photograph, Austria
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 15 // Gallery ID: 11509 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on th...
Digital Pigment
$1,750
Love Letter to a Butterfly, Ed of 1, Mixed Media, Photography and Diamond Dust
Located in New york, NY
Love Letter to a Butterfly is a contemporary photographic work composed of images of flower petals—the source of nectar for butterflies—arranged into a rhythmic pattern of circular f...
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment, Glitter, Mixed Media, Photography
$2,065
Flatiron Building – New York City, USA, Black and White Fine Art Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11756 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,754
Heart, Antelope Canyon, Arizona, Large Black-and-White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 11873 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
The Forest Beckons, edition 1 of 6 (hand-printed cyanotype, 24 x 16 inches)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
Morning light filters silently through dense coastal fog and layers of tree branches. This path through a tangle of redwoods and bay laurel trees is in the woods across the bay from ...
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$2,754
Red Beach Huts Study 1, Sweden, Limited Edition Colour Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21285 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
The Sun is Longing for the Sea, Limited Edition Japanese Photography
By Hiroshi Yamazaki
Located in New york, NY
The Sun is Longing for the Sea, 1978, by Japanese artist Hiroshi Yamazaki is a photograph from a limited edition portfolio of masters of Japanese photography. The photograph is signe...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Digital, Arc...
Craig, contemporary, wildlife, black & white photography, Elephant
Located in München, BY
Edition of 5 more sizes on request signed and numbered Craig, one of the last Big Tuskers in Amboseli, Kenya Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His p...
Archival Pigment
$2,065
Road to Nowhere, Utah USA – Black-and-White Photograph, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11648 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Burlesque Series, Delilah Right Red Hand III, The Whoopee Club, London Print
Located in Cambridge, GB
Delilah Right Red Hand, Richard Heeps photograph taken at the London Burlesque event The Whoopee Club. Richard Heeps became well-known for his Burlesque Photography after he spent 2...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$240Sale Price|20% Off
White Morning (cyanotype, 16 x 24 in., ed. 1 of 5)
By Christine So
Located in Oakland, CA
These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. Native Bay Laurel trees like the one in the foreground and Coast Live Oak...
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
$2,111Sale Price|20% Off
Minimalist Winter Tree, Limited-Edition Black-and-White Fine Art Landscape Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26008 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$4,016
Versilia 02 (Tuscany, Italy) by B. Lang, Aerial Photography, Triptych, Beach
Located in Paris, FR
Versilia 02 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 3 dimensions: *60 × 144 cm (2...
C Print
Five Minimalist Winter Trees in Snow, Black and White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26002 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$380
12121 Amboy Road (California Badlands) - Contemporary, Polaroid, Landscape
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
12121 Amboy Road (California Badlands) - 2010 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No. 10914. Not mounted...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Red Light - Mindscreen 07 (Night on Earth) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Red Light - Mindscreen 07 (Night on Earth) - 2008 20x20cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #242 Not mo...
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sun Loungers on an Italian Beach, Minimalist Colour Photograph, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25003 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,684
Laurisilva of Madeira - analogue black and white nature photography, Limited 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
' Laurisilva of Madeira' 2026 Limited edition of 10 Photograph shot using mid-century large format film camera Linhof. Printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. Signe...
Photographic Film, Film, Photographic Paper, Giclée
$2,065
Diving Platform Study 2 – France, Limited Edition Black and White Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11880 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge, California, USA, Limited Edition Black and White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11652 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,065
Pink Granite Coast, France – Monumental Boulder, Limited Edition Photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21117 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,080
Winter Storm Over a Minimalist Wooden Pier, Limited Edition Waterscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11591 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,295Sale Price|20% Off
Frosted Winter Tree Panorama – Austria, Black and White Landscape Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26009 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,524
Twin Palms by the Sea, Tuscany, Colour Landscape Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26011 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,065
Frosted Trees in Silence, Minimalist Winter Landscape, Limited Edition Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26013 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,065
Eiffel Tower – Paris, Limited-Edition Black-and-White Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11830 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$516
Audrey Hepburn with Yorkshire Terrier, Rome by Pierluigi Praturlon - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Gelatin silver press photograph. An elegant and spontaneous press photograph depicting Audrey Hepburn, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of twentieth-century cinema, seated...
Photographic Paper
$1,377
Cold Foggy Winter Morning – Minimalist Black and White Winter Landscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21344 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,410
Path Through the Frosted Forest, Limited Edition Black-and-White Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26012 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,515
Peony No.2 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition of 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Ugne Pouwell is a Lithuanian fine art photographer whose work explores presence, memory and the impermanence of the natural world. Working primarily with analogue black-and-white ph...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée
$419
Fish and Chips Van Square, Haddenham - English Vintage Countryside Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic British fish & chips van, on a classic English day Haddenham Steam Rally Country Fair, photograph by Richard Heeps. This artwork is a limited edition of 50 gloss photogra...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$1,252
Monte Amiata I and Utopian Foyer IV, Milan - Two Framed Architecture Photographs
Located in Cambridge, GB
Two framed artworks each measuring 30" x 23.5". 'Monte Amiata I' and 'Utopian Foyer IV', Milan, 2020. Artworks from Richard Heeps' photography series 'A Short History of Milan. The...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
"Greenhouse Composition 36x24 Series 17", Geometric Abstract Pink Grid
By Roxana Azar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
“Greenhouse Composition 36x24 Series 17” is an original artwork by Roxana Azar, consisting of a digital print on polycarbonate. It measures 36.75”h x 24.75”w framed. Roxana Azar’s w...
Ink, Polymer
Kate Moss During a Night Out, 2007, Signed, 40x30"
By Greg Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Kate Moss is photographed during a night out at the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden in London on the 16th of January in 2007. The British supermodel and businesswoman rose to fame ...
C Print
$768Sale Price|20% Off
Steps - underwater photograph - print on paper 21" x 18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A light and very becoming underwater photograph of a girl walking down the steps of a swimming pool. The light blue photograph shows no swimsuit neither nudity. The crystalline wate...
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
$15,000
Cover
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Sold out in all formats Available - 30x40 inches - framed, located in NYC
Archival Pigment
$2,065
Sea Breakers, France – Black-and-White Long-Exposure Seascape – Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 11452 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$4,016
Black Stone Beach – Long Exposure Waterscape, Black and White Fine Art Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 5 // Gallery ID: 21082 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Jack Nicholson outside Stringfellows, London, 2001
By Greg Brennan
Located in New York, NY
Greg Brennan Jack Nicholson, outside Stringfellows, London 2001 Edition of 25 Hand-signed by Greg Brennan Archival Pigment Print Unframed and shipped flat As one of Britain's longes...
Silver Gelatin
$229
Fish and Chips Van Square, Haddenham - English Vintage Countryside Color Photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic British fish & chips van, on a classic English day at Haddenham Steam Rally Country Fair, photograph by Richard Heeps. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss p...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Antelope Canyon Abstract Landscape Print in Monochrome, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11874 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Winter Path to the Lone Tree, Minimalist Snow Landscape, Limited Edition Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 5 // Gallery ID: 21082 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,065
Minimal Coastal Landscape Photograph of Palm Trees, Mallorca, Black and White
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21107 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Christ Light, Jaywick - Multicolor Vintage Interior Photograph Framed
Located in Cambridge, GB
Christ Light, a modest church interior illuminated by the bold geometric multi-colour stained glass, photograph from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea. This artwork is a limited edition...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Karma, Milan - Italian bookshop street photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Karma, street photography from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of Milan. 'A Short History of Milan' began in November 2018 for a special project featured at the Affordable Art...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Foyer IV, Milan - Italian Design Interior Architecture Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Foyer IV, Italian interior photography from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of Milan. A Short History of Milan, began in November 2018 for a special project featured at the Af...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Lotus Flower Panorama Study 2 – Minimalist Black and White Photograph, Vietnam
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21037 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Place to Linger Winter – Minimalist Black and White Landscape Photography Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25039 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,639
Blue Coconut Boat, Vietnam – Limited Edition Colour Waterscape Photograph Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25038 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$1,664Sale Price|20% Off
The Violet House, Burano Venice, Colour Cityscape Photography, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26006 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Wild Child (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks)
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Child (Chicks and Chicks and sometimes Cocks) - 2019 - 50x50cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid Artist inventory 22252. Signature l...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
$2,600
Black and White Photography, Wall Street, New York City, Limited Edition, 19x13
Located in New york, NY
Leonard Freed's photographic career is punctuated by epic documentary photo essays with many works from New York City. Wall Street is one of the photographer's iconic 1950s images. ...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
$2,065
Into the Nothing, Austria – Limited Edition Black and White Long Exposure Jetty
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21351 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$13,400
Seascape XI Triptych (framed) - abstract photographs of ocean surface & horizon
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photographs from the artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochrome blue azure nature of oceanic waterscapes SEASCAP...
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass
$1,836Sale Price|20% Off
The Turquoise House, Colour Cityscape, Venetian Lagoon, Venice – Limited Print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 25048 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
$2,203Sale Price|20% Off
Green Limestone Cliffs, Ha Long Bay – Limited Edition Colour Fine Art Photograph
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21383 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
Frosted Winter Tree Austria, Minimalist Black and White Fine Art Landscape Photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 26003 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...
Digital Pigment
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