Contemporary Abstract Paintings
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
Oil on Canvas:
Shine
By Carol John
Located in New York, NY
Carol John's art reflects her encounters with mainstream modern artists-showing the obvious influence of Guston and other individualists like Marsden Hartley and Alfred Julio Jensen-...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Frank Shifreen
Couple
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
Couple
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and beau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shift (2/19) by James Lumsden - Abstract colour painting, light and dark blue
Located in Paris, FR
Shift (2/19) is a unique acrylic on canvas, gloss finish painting by contemporary artist James Lumsden, dimensions are 60 × 75 cm (23.6 × 29.5 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unfra...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Frank Shifreen
Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
Still Life
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Night Life" - Vibrant Impasto Colorful Rainbow Circles with Black Oil Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Sveta Hessler (Russian, born 1973)
"Night Life" 2025
Oil Paint, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the bottom right and the back of the painting.
In "Night Life," Sveta Hessle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Ambivalent. From The Rectangular Composition Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Old Town, Landscape Artwork, Original Oil Painting, Abstract Art
By Miles Cole
Located in Deddington, GB
An abstract composition inspired by the random geometry that can be found in some of the older towns and cities in Europe. Towns that have grown organically and whose intricate jumbl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled 12 - Series 2019, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Textile Lightness
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
The Ballet Shoe, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I am a huge fan of ballet. They are such a dedicated and amazingly strong and fit group of people, making ballet look so easy when it is so incredibly hard. My painting is an abstract celebration of balance, beauty and the stillness between movement. "The Ballet Shoe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Embodied VIII
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .
In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink
Guardian - Geometric Abstract Painting Blue Teal Green Yellow Shapes, 2025
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in acrylic on canvas, geometric shapes in blue, yellow, pink and teal green are vibrant against an atmospheric blue background with hints of ye...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Deep Blue Landscape – Pure Pigment on Canvas by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Description:
Blue Landscape is an original one-of-a-kind artwork by Italian artist Marilina Marchica.
Executed with pure pigment pastel on canvas, this piece explores the depth of c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Pigment
Sleepless 3
Located in New Orleans, LA
Margaret Evangeline is a contemporary painter, sculptor, and installation artist who lives and works in New York City. She was the first female recipient of an MFA in Fine Arts from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Friday Night February 13th"
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), "Friday Night February 13th", Acrylic on Tarlatan, with foamcore elements, unsigned, with descriptive paper label. 43.75" H x 47" W. Provenance: F...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Foam, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Mesh
Delphi, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Tracy Burke
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece was created on museum quality gallery wrapped canvas stretched over a hand-crafted wooden stretcher frame. Edges are staple-free and painted to compliment the artwork. No ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Light of 5 Dawns
By Beau Carey
Located in Bozeman, MT
By using references to navigational coastal profiling and by borrowing and subverting compositional structures of the 19th century American landscape painters I examine how modern la...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, apparently unsigned, stamped "Studio Elfi Schuselka" to verso, unstretched, unframed. 21.5" H x 23.5" W. Prov...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Brigitte Mathé - Abstract 10
Located in Paris, IDF
Artwork in acrylic on linen sold with a white frame
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
60"x50" Oil Painting - Abstract Contemporary Oil Painting Monochromatic Study 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a monochromatic contemporary oil painting by Alexis Portilla working in abstract expressionism. Influenced by the emotion of artistic expression in music, poetry and literatu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Star strangled banner. From The Rectangular Composition Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Almo wonders about his identity, the countries he has lived in, his daily routine and how he creates himself. An outsider who has made the world his home, skin, and citizenship, and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Abstract Melange II" Abstract Collage 35" x 29.5" inch by Neama El Sanhoury
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Melange II" Abstract Collage 35" x 29.5" inch by Neama El Sanhoury
Fabric Collage on Cotton Mesh on Wood
ARTIST BIO
Neama El Sanhoury's upbringing in what she describes a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Mixed Media, Mesh
French Contemporary Art by Christiane Hess - Les Larmes D
Amour
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Christiane Hess (Chrystral) is a French abstract artist born in 1951 who lives and works in Lalinde, near Bergerac in France. Her conversion to abstract art gives ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No.147
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas - artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Frank Shifreen
The Family 3
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
The Prophet
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xia FuNing - The Guard of The Dead Spirit No.II
By Xia FuNing
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on linen
Xia Fu-Ning is a Chinese artist born in 1962 in Nanjing. He was once a professor in the Department of Fine Arts during 1980s in Tianjin Polytechnic University and curre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Mixed Media
N° 200-15, 2019 (Painting Gold Leaf)
Located in New York City, NY
Nicolas Galtier
N° 200-15, 2019
80 x 80 inches
200 x 200 cm
Unique
Mixed Media
Nicolas Galtier is a French painter who has exhibited his work...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
Frank Shifreen
Critical Eye
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
Critical Eye
2021
18 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Frank Shifreen
Sunday Morning
Located in New York, NY
Frank Shifreen
Untitled 1
2021
22 x 28 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed, titled and dated on verso
These new works start from polar opposite impulses which juxtapose the purity and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Mimeo Lilies
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Blue Mimeo Lilies" is a medium scale painting, of faint waterlilies on a pond. This abstraction is part of his popular and important series of "Waterlilies" from 2019-2021. This pie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Reddish Woodland
Located in Bozeman, MT
Though the action of painting geological formations using abstraction, organic textures and luminous color, I can convey how natural physical forces work to shape a constantly changi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
ODYSEUSS TOUCHED BY ATHENA
S WAND
Located in New York, NY
small oil painting on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Morphologie d
un paysage— Abstract Landscape, Contemporary, french art, oil art
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Morphologie d’un Paysage is an original oil painting by French contemporary artist Sophie Dumont, whose work is collected internationally and held in museum collections. Known for he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Where Chaos Meets Harmony
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Schizas, Nikolaos
Title: Where Chaos Meets Harmony
Date: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 27" x 27"
Framed Dimensions: 28" x 28"
Signature: Signed b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Surge, original painting, contemporary, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Surge is built from 11 layers of small, energetic strokes, creating the sense of a crowd moving with shared purpose. Up close, each mark represent an individual, but from afar you se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Brilliant Corners, Landscape Artwork, Original Oil Painting, Abstract Art
By Miles Cole
Located in Deddington, GB
Brilliant Corners is an abstract painting in the British Constructivist style of the post-war period. Here are references to the Brutalist architecture around the London's South Bank...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Printemps
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Josette Dubost - Immensite
Located in Paris, IDF
Josette Dubost is a French artist born in 1936 who lives & works in Solliès-Pont, France.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunday Funday - Abstract Pastel-Tone Ice Cream Still Life Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia (USA) based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and abstracted still-life artworks. Her expressive style emphasizes line structure, creating vibrant painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
"Sweet Struggle" (2025) Original Abstract Figurative Oil Painting on Board
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Jader's "Sweet Struggle" is a beautiful, original oil painting on board. This piece is framed at 12.50 x 9.50 inches, and is ready to hang.
Change comes to all of us. Wheth...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Oil, Panel
2018 I by Christiane Maurer - Textile art, line, colour, loom, vivid, handwoven
Located in Paris, FR
2018 I is a unique textile (double weave, handwoven cotton stretched on frame) artwork by contemporary artist Christiane Maurer, dimensions are 125 × 95 cm (49.2 × 37.4 in).
The art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton
Stepping Into My Heart and Lingering There - pink abstract painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
"Stepping Into My Heart and Lingering There" is a pink abstract painting full of light, dedicated to truly seeing my own heart.
A small canvas on a deep frame, with perfectly finish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sketch 3
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nerhbass’ paintings focus on style as a sublime element of tension within beauty. Thematically they evoke modern dilemmas of what it means to see and be seen in a manner that is simu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Board
Intensely Blue, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
40" x 30" x 1.5" original painting on stretched canvas, with the image continuing around the sides so that no frame is required. It comes with picture wire, ready to hang. Inte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sinclair
Located in Bozeman, MT
Artist Statement-"I work in mixed media, laying down layers of spray paint, pencil, and traditional oil wash on wood or canvas before bringing in photography or other elements that c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
$3,000
Reflex (8/14) by James Lumsden - Abstract colour painting, blue, violet
Located in Paris, FR
Reflex (8/14) is a unique acrylic on canvas, gloss finish painting by contemporary artist James Lumsden, dimensions are 120 × 120 cm (47.2 × 47.2).
The artwork is signed, sold unfram...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Trinidad Caribbean Humming Birds Jungle Forest Birds Verandah Blue Green
Located in Norfolk, GB
View from a Verandah, acrylic on canvas, 30cm x 23cm, 2021
Even in his most realistic images, there is a beautiful exaggeration in the paintings of Peter Rodulfo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Foundational Void
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
American Contemporary Art by David Paul Kay - Lifespan
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist born in 1982 who lives and works in New York City, USA. With a focus on vibran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
Matumba - Large Framed Original Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Alessandro Casetti's paintings metaphorically represent all the emotions, fears, and hopes that populate our daily life inside and outside of our own bodies. Through a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Aquamarine" 2025
Located in New York, NY
David Paul Kay "Aquamarine" 2025
28x34 inches ink on paper, framed.
About the Artist
David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist based in New York City. With a focus on vibr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Soil Horizons (Sub-Soil As Far As the Eye Can See)" - earth pigments - abstract
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting features hues of brown, orange and pink.
Heather Bird Harris is an artist, mother, and educator based in Atlanta and New Orleans. Sh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Graphite
"Days Like These, " an Acrylic on Paper by Karen Hoepting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This is International artist Karen Hoepting's "Days Like These" from 2000. The acrylic on paper abstract floral scene is mounted on museum foamboard, signed lower left, and dated.
The artist grew up on a farm in Canada. Her love of nature and the influence of the farm equipment...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Athirst VI
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ina Kaur (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work responds to imbalances and injustices within social, cultural, and ecological environments. Her practi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$3,600
"Girl Reflection" oil and resin painting, upside down portrait with waterlilies
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Girl Reflection" is an expressionist depiction merging a portrait of a girl laying with her arms crossed behind her head, and the surface of a pond adorned with lilypads.
An excit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Oil
Isla 06
Located in New York, NY
Born in the province of Colón, Panamá in 1976, Thannyo De Freitas Navarro experienced an upbringing in which artistic
expression and earthly connection were...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Evanescence- 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Oil Painting, Gold Leaf
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
For centuries, artisans and artists have turned to gold leaf as a way to make their creations shimmer and shine. Also many contemporary artists continue ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Beach 4 - Modern Figurative Minimalistic Oil Painting, Sea View, Love
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Glacier Letting Go - Atmospheric tonal abstract landscape waterfall painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
"A Glacier Letting Go' is a winter abstract landscape painting inspired by the waterfall gushing from the ice, a moment of letting go in nature .Have you ever seen a glacier letting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gabrielle Benot, "Decorato", 48x36 Bright Contemporary Equine Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This abstract equine painting, "Decorato" by artist Gabrielle Benot is a 48x36 original mixed media painting on canvas. Depicted is an abstract horse portrait, from a side view, in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Brigitte Mathé - Forest Rescue
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary abstract paintings 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 abstract paintings 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 Anastasia Pelias, Chelsea Davine, Waleria Matelska, and Anna Maria Caboni. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric 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 abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 1.63 inches across are also available.