conceptual art

noun

variants often Conceptual art

: an art form in which the artist's intent is to convey a concept rather than to create an art object

conceptual artist noun

often Conceptual artist

Examples of conceptual art in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If all of this seems laden with meaning of the kind that often attends conceptual art in 2026—colonialism, empire, fraught ideas of foreigness and exoticness—you, like me, will have read Akhavan’s intentions completely wrong. —Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026

There was a time when AI art was seen as a burgeoning form of conceptual art. —Ahmed Elgammal, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026

Those Weimar masters bore fruit in the mature careers of Bernd and Hilla Becher, the postwar Düsseldorf duo who blurred the line between photography and conceptual art with their gray-on-gray depictions of industrial architecture. —J.s. Marcus, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026

Work by the quartet will be on display at MIMA from September 29, 2026, to March 29, 2027, with the winner of the prestigious conceptual art award announced at a December 10 ceremony at the gallery. —News Desk, Artforum, 23 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for conceptual art

• apart
• depart
• flowchart
• forepart
• impart
• pushcart
• rampart
• redstart
• restart
• subpart
• sweetheart
• upstart