The genesis of abstract art was tied to spiritual ideas current in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pioneers of abstraction – Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, Piet Mondrian, Kasimir Malevich, Paul Klee and others – had abandoned representational art in favor of an art form that allowed them to express their inner spiritual lives. The last art movement to similarly build on spiritual values was Abstract Expressionism in the mid 1940s and 50s. In the decades that followed, spirituality was rarely discussed in art history scholarship. However, it never disappeared from contemporary art. Artists working independently were drawing inspiration from Native American and Aboriginal spirituality, Buddhism, Hinduism and other sources. This lecture will look at the generations of artists from 1950 forward who continued to express spiritual concepts in their abstract work.