Contemporary Animal 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.
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Style: Contemporary
Bull
Dutch Contemporary Fresco Painting with a Bull
Located in Utrecht, NL
The pronounced technique is the first thing that strikes you when viewing the works of Jan Grotenbreg (1946). It is innovative and unique. The result of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Foxes Figurative Oil Painting, Expressive Palette, 18x25 cm, New
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Malka is from her latest body of works called "Figurinot" - Whether portraying human figures or porcelain and ceramic sculptures, Malka grants each subject...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Always A Leo - Figurative Lion 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 Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Quicksilver - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Hunt Slonem "Mark" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Mark
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 15" x 13"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: Uniqu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Pale Blue Pose" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Pale Blue Pose
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tabby Cat, original painting, portrait, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Tabby Cat With its strong and confident brushstrokes, Tabby Cat captures the essence of a poised and self-assured feline. The cat sits calmly, facing the viewer with a gentle yet ass...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bird Tree, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A spruce tree in the artist Jessica JH Roller’s front yard is a favorite of many birds. An Eastern Screech Owl spent the early summer months perched on a br...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Plushie VII" - Quilled Mixed Media Artwork of Figure and Bear Plushie
Located in Denver, CO
"Plushie VII," by Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, is an imaginative and original mixed-media artwork created in 2025. This captivating piece showcases Kekere-Ekun’s exceptional use of quilling,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Hunt Slonem "Hutch White" Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Hutch White
Date: 2022
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 28" x 22"
Framed Dimensions: 30.5" x 24.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Plushie IX" - Quilled Mixed Media of Bear Embracing Figure, 2025
Located in Denver, CO
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun’s "Plushie IX" (2025) is a striking mixed-media artwork crafted from meticulously layered paper strips, fabric, and acrylic on canvas. Measuring 23.62 x 23.62 x 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Spirit Animal, Horse 3, Beacon, NY, 2002
By Matt Kinney
Located in Hudson, NY
ABOUT
Matt Kinney was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts. He attended Pratt Institute and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, graduating in 1998. After ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Sumi Ink
"Nine Lives VI" Striped Cat with Blue
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Nine Lives VI" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and is made of oil on canvas. This piece measures approximately 23.5" x 27.5" a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Delta" Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Delta
Date: 2020
Medium: Oil on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 40"
Framed Dimensions: 32" x 42"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Leaving" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shelli Langdale's "Leaving" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white horse in a green field with a red balloon hovering above its form.
Artist Bio:
Shelli Langdal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Crismon Chat Red Bird, realist and minimalist animal painting, oil and gold leaf
Located in Dallas, TX
"Crismon Chat Bird" is a realist painting depicting a determined red bird perched on a tree branch. The painting is graphic and glorious. Anastasia has painted half the canvas with r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hunt Slonem "Midnight" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Midnight
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Panel
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 16" x 14"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Unique
Provena...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sonnet of Light I
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 Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hunt Slonem "Squirrel Monkey"
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Squirrel Monkey
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geometric Horse 2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Geometric shapes create a vibrant representation of a prancing horse. A sense of energy and playfulness exudes from the dynamic color patterns and stylization o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pheasant Miniaturist Painting, 3 x 3 in., Jewel-Toned Bird Portrait
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite miniature painting by Dina Brodsky, a celebrated contemporary miniaturist, depicts a brilliantly colored pheasant perched on a branch, rendered with remarkable precisi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Parchment Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Pup
Hand" Contemporary Dog Portraits with Ball in Field
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Pup & Hand" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser made from oil on canvas. This piece measures 16"h x 26"w framed, and ships with a gallery-issued Certificate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blue Macaws" (2025) Original Impressionist Oil Painting of Macaw Parrots
Located in Denver, CO
Thorgrimur Einarsson's "Blue Macaws" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pair of perched blue macaw parrots.
About the Artist:
Thorgrimur is an Icelandic artist, bo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Perpetual Journey
Located in Bozeman, MT
This bird painting by Michael Dickter features many different types of birds. A crane or heron flies as a purple silhouette, while a small bird is fully render with a pink stripe beh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Lavender Mist 3
By Hunt Slonem
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem.
Oil on wood, lavender bunny.
Painting is framed, as seen in the images. Dimensions of the artwork with the frame: 19 x 16.5 inches
Signe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Snowy Mountains
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
She Purrs - Green Cougar Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and expressive animal portraits that radiate vitality and personality. Her unique style combines abstracted forms...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
Winter Sheep Drive Dr. #7
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Two Macks - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of Two Mackerel on Paper
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A Mackerel is inked and then "printed" with sumi ink in this Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print. The artist then embellishes the fish with colored pencil adding an extraordinary dimen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil
Hunt Slonem "Owl Washington"
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Owl Washington
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 20.5" x 16"
Framed Dimensions: 22.5" x 18"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: Uniq...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swans
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tremaine’s oil paintings merge the personal and universal. In her Crosscurrents series, swans and seabirds move through layered abstract fields, suggesting emotional depth and natura...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birds 5. Figurative small scale oil painting, Realistic, Animals, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary small scale oil on canvas figurative painting by Polish artist Magdalena Nalecz.Artwork depicts birds on an abstract background.
Magdalena Nałęcz (b. 1970) She gradua...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Society Finches 2" Birds
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Society Finches 2
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.25" x 12.25"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Ve...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cranberry (Freeze, Flight, Fight)
Located in Wien, 9
Xenia Ostrovskaya, born in 1989, is a visual artist from Saint Petersburg. She studied ceramics and porcelain painting at Saint Petersburg State University. This was followed in 2015...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Big Blue
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Denver, CO
This painting of a single bunny represents Hunt Slonem's most widely recognizeable motif, set within a beautiful antique frame hand picked by Hunt himself.
Hunt Slonem's artistic tr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Haze" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Haze
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Vers...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Days Until Autumn. Series "Vibrations of the Earth"
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting captures a state of anticipation, when summer still clings to the light, but the first whisper of autumn is already vibrating in the air. The space dissolves into a gre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Fish Bowl
By Greg Decker
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomizes the passion that comes from a deep love of art, poetry, and music. His paintings show how art is both the consolation for, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Metal
Vibrant Silver Painting with Butterflies
Silver Ascension Tues
by Hunt Slonem
By Hunt Slonem
Located in White Plains, NY
"Silver Ascension Tues' 2021 by Hunt Slonem. Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in. This vibrant silver painting by Hunt Slonem features an array of butterflies along with his signature cross ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Did You Say Ball? - Dog Portrait 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 Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Pencil
Tetons (3)
By Mike Piggott
Located in Bozeman, MT
Piggott finds resonance and beauty in the familiar. His subjects, anchored in the stuff of the every day, are quietly captured in a moment of time. Each composition speaks to the art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oyster
Lemon and Artichoke
Lemon diptych, Original painting, Sea
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a diptych of Oyster & Lemon and Artichoke & Lemon. Both paintings are same size.
This contemporary still-life depicts a fresh and vibrant oyster with a slice of lemon on b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem "Quantum Leap" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Quantum Leap
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 16" x 11"
Framed Dimensions: 20.5" x 15.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golden hour
Located in Zofingen, AG
Imagine a warm day with sunlight flickering on the walls. The house is quiet, but the sounds of life drift in from the street. You feel peaceful and you like yourself.
Golden Hour
"...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"11:17" Contemporary Surrealist Watercolor with raven, clock, tumbler of whiskey
Located in New York, NY
This watercolor painting depicts a profile of a large raven perched on a shelf, with a glass tumbler of whiskey with ice cubes and a small branch as a garnish. A large clock hangs o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Come In Peace - Futuristic Woman in Space Suit Seated Next to a Bunny
Located in Chicago, IL
Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Come In Peace
oil on linen
50h x 70w in
127h x 177.80w cm
RFF056
Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary expl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Leaping Fox
By Greg Decker
Located in Atlanta, GA
Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminum comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomize...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,350
Hunt Slonem "Chinensis 4" Bunnies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Chinensis Monday
Series: Bunnies
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 48" x 48"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Edition: Uni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"In It Together", Contemporary, Bird, Blue, Night Sky, Mixed Media
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Sargent Walker’s Oil and Acrylic painting "In It Together", depicts three beautifully rendered birds in migration flight against a deep blue, starlit night sky. The sky lightens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Winter Buck, 2019
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Oil, xerox transfer, and blue and gold foil, metal leaf on wood panel
Deer, buck, antlers.
Animal art, miniature painting
Hand signed by artist
Certificate of Authenticity
Framing av...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Metal
Startled
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Denver, CO
Hunt Slonem's artistic trajectory has always been characterized by a deep exploration of spiritual themes. His use of repetition in form—particularly with his beloved bunnies—serves ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Hornbills 2004
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New Orleans, LA
A gorgeous early Hunt Slonem of birds in grisaille pallette titled "Hornbills"
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Transformed - Swan in Graphite on Antique Vellum Architectural Drawing
By Don Pollack
Located in Chicago, IL
Over a hundred years ago, my grandfather registered as a homesteader with the Department of the Interior Land Office in Buffalo, Wyoming. Building a cabin on a remote 640 acre plat,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Vellum, Graphite
Monarch Butterflies 3, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"These monarch butterflies gather together to have some fun and fly around," describes artist Natasha Tayles. She captured a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nature
s Wide and Common Sky - Contemporary semi abstract painting
Located in London, GB
Christopher Rainham has always been inspired by the natural world and more specifically an experience of the natural world. He is inspired by the way flora and fauna are woven into l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Follow the Wind II
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 Animal Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
‘Hunter’ (Bay Horse), Georgie Dowling, Original painting, equestrian painting
Located in Deddington, GB
‘Hunter’ (Bay Horse) by Georgie Dowling [2021]
original and hand signed by the artist
Oil paint on canvas
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs - Monumental Mythological Oil Painting
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
The battle depicted here takes place between the Lapiths and the Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous to Hippodamia. Pirithous, the king of the Lapiths, had long clashed with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Song. Series "Vibrations of the Earth"
Located in Zofingen, AG
In "Evening Song," everything breathes with the warmth of day's end — a gentle light that envelops nature just before nightfall. Two birds, perched among fiery red and golden foliage...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem "Dove (Peace Plan)" Birds
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Dove (Peace Plan)
Date: 2021
Medium: Oil on Wood
Unframed Dimensions: 18.5" x 16.5"
Framed Dimensions: 26" x 23"
Signature: Signed Verso
Edition: U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary animal 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 animal 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, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Hunt Slonem, Jeff Conroy, Arozarena De La Fuente, and John Defeo. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint 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 animal paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for animal paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $98 and tops out at $437,000, while the average work sells for $3,497.
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