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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
Portrait Of A Young Woman 2 - Figurative Oil Painting, New Renaissance
Located in Salzburg, AT
Portrait Of A Young Woman 2 - Figurative Oil Painting, New Renaissance Contemporary painting oil on canvas
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Irish Coast, Ireland, shoreline, fine art, black and white landscape photo print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white long exposure seascape photography. Rocky coastal landscape with cliffs and a large rock formation in the ocean. Archival pigment ink print as pa...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Cypress Trees, Tree Avenue, Tuscany, black and white art landscape photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white fine art photography. Landscape of rolling hills with a winding dirt road flanked by tall, slender cypress trees. Archival pigment ink print as p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Pavillon de Flore, Paris, France, black and white art photography, cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited ed...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Night Studio
Located in London, GB
Danielle Orchard Night Studio, 2022 Archival pigment print on 290 gsm Hahnemuhle hemp paper 68.58 x 55.88 cm - sheet 76.2 x 63.2 cm - framed Edition 4 of 50 hand-signed and numbered ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Romance in Venice, Gondoliere, monochrome landscape photograph limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Romance in Venice Study 1, Venice, Italy - no. 18190 Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Ge...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Irish Coast Panorama, Ireland, black and white photography, landscape, fine art
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white panorama seascape photography. Rocky coastline with cliffs and a tall rock formation in the water, under a cloudy sky. Archival pigment ink print...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Light 22 April 11:23 - Modern Minimalistic Landscape Painting, Sea View
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Misty Morning on the Lake, monochrome photograph, limited edition waterscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

No Name 55, Mixed Media Painting on Linen
Located in New York City, NY
Italian painter Andrea Gallotti’s practice is rooted in the quiet rigor of repetition, a deliberate return to a gesture so simple it borders on the childlike, yet so subtle that its ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, I Will Not Allow The Dark Skies To Affect Me, 2025 22 colour screenprint with varnish overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410 gsm paper 56 x 76 cm (22.04 x 29.92 in) Edi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Yellow Landscape, Original Drawing on Paper , One of a kind Large size
Located in Agrigento, AG
Yellow Landscape Mineral Oxide on Paper (Canson Paper Montval 300gr) 70x100 cm 2025 Original Art Marilina Marchica, born in Agrigento, where she works and lives, she graduated in ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Pigment

Sea Water swimming Pool, Diving Platform, color photography limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Sea Water Swimming Pool Study 1, France - no. 21244 // Color fine art long exposure seascape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 8. All Gerald Ber...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

David Hockney, Letter L, from Hockney s Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter L, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Manhattan, skyscraper, cityscape, detail from above, New York City - photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white cityscape photography. Aerial view of the dense New York City skyline with tall skyscrapers in New York City. Archival pigment ink print as part o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Strike a Pose - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color, Women, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Strike a Pose' (Bombay Beach) 2019, 20x20cm, Edition 1/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted. Signed on the back and ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Yoga portraits, Kate Series of 4 Black and White Photographs of Female Nudes
Located in New york, NY
The Kate Series, 2002 by Leonard Freed came perhaps as a welcome reprieve near the end of American photographer Leonard Freed's life before which time the photographer tackled social...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Jetty on calm Lake long exposure waterscape limited edition fine art print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Jetty on calm Lake Study 2, Austria - no. 21214 Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Summer 8 - 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

The Bride s Kiss - including the book A Half Forgotten Dream
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
The Bride’s Kiss (Till Death Do Us Part), 2010 including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by Snap Collective, 2024....
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Instant Moules V by Ondřej Oliva - wall sculpture, black silver shells
Located in Paris, FR
Instant Moules V is a nickeled and elox aluminium wall sculpture by contemporary Czech sculptor Ondřej Oliva, dimensions are 50× 35× 25cm (19.6 × 13.7 × 9.8 in). This sculpture is a ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

Silverstoned - Motorsports, Formula 1
Located in London, GB
Silverstoned, 2024 Gicleé print on Hahnemuhle Daguerre Canvas framed in Tasmanian Oak edition of 42 100 x 100 cm comes with hand-signed and numbered COA from the artist. Werner Bron...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Giclée

Kristine DeBell - Vintage Photo by Helmut Newton - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Kristine DeBell is a  vintage photo, realized by Helmut Newton in the 1970s. The artwork represent fashion model and actress in 1970s. 
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Estelle - Sexy nude woman smoking in a bar, Contemporary with a Vintage style
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
This is an original signed figurative archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Estelle‘ who was capt...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...

Fishing Hut on Stilts Panorama, black and white photograph, limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white seascape photography. Fishing huts on stilts over water, with fishing nets hanging from the st...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment

Stilt House, Fishing, France, long exposure, black and white, photography, print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white seascape photography. A small wooden hut on stilts connected by a long walkway over water with...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digit...

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, USA, black and white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white Photography. Mountainous landscape with a forest, a large granite rock formation in the background, cloudy sky above. Archival pigment ink print, ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Great Pollet Sea Arch, Irish Atlantic Coast, Ireland, black and white art photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white photo of a rocky coastline with a large rock formation featuring a natural arch, the ocean waves surrounding the rocks, and a cloudy sky overhead. Great Pollet Sea A...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Beach Shower, Storm, Tuscany - limited photograph - monochrome seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Beach Shower in a Storm, Italy - no. 21302 Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Bar...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

The Dance Goes On, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Sunlight filters through the dilapidated room, illuminating dust motes and peeling paint. Before the crumbling fireplace, the translucent figures of the home'...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Joan Severance - Photograph by Mark Abrahams - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Mark Abrahams in 1980s. Copyright and provenance: Playboy. Excellent condition.
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

1025 Colors (1025 Farben) By Gerhard Richter
Located in Dubai, Dubai
1025 Colors (1025 Farben) By Gerhard Richter 2013 Medium: Offset Lithograph Paper Size: 48 x 46 inches ( 122 x 117 cm ) Image Size: 43.75 x 43.5 inches ( 111 x 110 cm ) Editio...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Eiffel Tower, architecture detail, Paris, black and white photography, cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Eiffel Tower Study 12, Paris, France - no. 11988 // Black and White Fine Art Cityscape Photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by a...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

untitled (horseman)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This whimsical and surreal etching by Mexican artist Maximino Javier, dated 1984, embodies his unique visual language that blends fantasy, folklore, and satire. Executed with intrica...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Etching

Peony - 21st Century contemporary Hyper realistic oil painting of a peony flower
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jean Paul Marsman (Dutch artist) Peony 20 x 20 cm (framed, included in price 23 x 23 cm) Oil paint on wood Craftsmanship: The work is painted so realistically that everything seems...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Tree and the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, black white photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Tree and the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France - no. 11850 // Black and white fine art cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Independence II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 35х24
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater nude photograph of a young woman dancing in a pool with American flag. Original gallery quality archival pigment print signed by the author. Limited edition of 24 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Red Earth - Contemporary Abstract Landscape Pattern Stripes Leaves Peach, 2023
Located in Kent, CT
Contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil on linen mounted on panel with carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in bright prismatic colors against a li...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil, Panel

Palm Trees, Sand Beach, Florida, photograph, limited edition - Gerald Berghammer
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mizuhiki
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mizuhiki" is an exclusive publication by Stone + Press in an edition of 100. Katsunori Hamanishi was born in 1949 on Hokkaido island - Japan's second largest island. In 1973 he fi...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mezzotint

Primavera II- 21st Century Contemporary Dutch Still-life of Flowers
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Primavera II 49 x 50 cm Framed in a black wooden frame: 52 x 62 cm Oil paint on wood panel Dutch artist, painter, Adriana van Zoest, lives and works in Warmenhuizen, in the North of...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Lonely Tree - black and white photography - limited edition - landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited Edition - Black and white farmland landscape photography. A solitary tree on a gentle hill under a cloudy sky at sunset. Archival pigment ink print, edit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Mini Glass Water Bag - Hyperreal glass sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hyperreal mini water bag glass sculpture - solid and hollow glass by Dylan Martinez. Martinez's hyperreal sculptures are hot sculpted glass hand-molded entirely by the artist. The p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

Contemporary Cast Glass Sculpture, Geologic Editions #10, 2018 by David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
Please allow a three month turnaround time for piece to be made. About the Geologic Editions: The Geologic Editions are studies for Colorado Cascade Mural. David pieced together bit...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Eiffel Tower, Fontaine Du Trocadero, Paris, black and white fine art photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Cityscape Photography. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Dancing on Ice Skyscraper New York, USA black and white photography landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Dancing on Ice, New York City, USA 2016 - no. 11787 Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Ice Skating, Central Park, New York City, USA. Archival pigment ink pr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bea with a whip at The Other Side
Located in New York, NY
Nan Goldin Bea with a whip at The Other Side 1973 Gelatin silver print 14 x 11 inches; 36 x 28 cm Edition of 100 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower right verso) ...
Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Going Nowhere Day 6 - Original Sculptural Texture Oceanscape People Swimming
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Langreiter’s "Going Nowhere Day 6" is a whimsical, textured mixed-media painting that captures a serene moment of relaxation on the water. Featuring two miniature figures floating effortlessly on bright yellow inner tubes against an expansive turquoise sea, this artwork evokes feelings of peace, leisure, and the joy of drifting and relaxing. Langreiter’s signature raised elements add dimension and a tactile quality, making this piece perfect for coastal art lovers, collectors of contemporary beach scenes, and those seeking a joyful escape in their home décor. The textural aerial ocean and beach scene...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Miami II 005 by Bernhard Lang - Aerial view photography, beach, sea, umbrellas
Located in Paris, FR
Miami II 005 is a limited-edition photograph by contemporary artist Bernhard Lang. It is a C-print impression on Hahnemüle Fine Art Paper. This photograph is sold unframed as a pri...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Geal Figh 2 - textured, white, modernist, glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Glass artist Cheryl Wilson-Smith is honouring her Scottish heritage by naming this stunning new wall sculpture Geal (meaning ‘bright’) Figh (meaning ‘weave’). Paper-thin layers of wh...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glass

The water sings because it flows Anna-Carien Goosen - Contemporary oil painting
Located in DE
A portrait of peace, but not the polished kind. This painting is dedicated to those neither wholly domestic nor wholly wild—the ones comfortable in their skin, the ones who can remai...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini Planes - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Planes' - 2001 - signed in front, not mounted. 1 Digital Color Photograph based on the Polaroid. Polaroid sized open Editions 19...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid

Row of Cypress Trees, Tuscany, Italy, b&w photography, fine art print, framed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited Edition 1/9 Archival Pigment Ink Print, Printed 2020. Signed, numbered, dated by Artis. Handmade wood frame, dark-brown, natural white archival Passepart...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

The San Remo Central Park New York monochrome limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
The San Remo Study 2, New York City, USA - no. 18078 Black and white fine art cityscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Ge...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Girl Nude (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 20th Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Girl Nude (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory Number ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Cup of Tea - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Black Woman Hair
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.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Statue, From The Labyrinth series. Landscape and Sculpture. B&W Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Labyrinth continues the exploration begun in the previous two series (Paranoia and Lullaby). Unlike the first two chapters, all the images in this series were created and post-produc...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Black and White, Archival Pigment

Tulle no. 46, Nantucket, MA
Located in Sante Fe, NM
“The hovering installations featured in this ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, "emergent" systems in nature such as termite mounds, swarming locusts, sch...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Luna Eclipse Pocket Painting, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Luna Eclipse (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a no...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

IRIS I - unique abstraction of colors in circular glass frame (45" diameter)
Located in San Francisco, CA
a mesmerizing sea of blue, green and ocre color tones from an ongoing photography project since the late 1990s, capturing the details of the human iris and a pupil's unique abstractions Iris I...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Photographic Film

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.

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