Transdimensional Artist  ·  Painter  ·  Crypto Art Pioneer

Max
Osiris

Acrylic visions pulled from the hyperdimensional — translating inner cosmologies onto large-format canvas since 2016 and the Ethereum blockchain since 2018.

2,500+ NFTs sold
$2M+ Sales volume
23 Exhibitions
14 Cities worldwide
§ 01 Who is Max Osiris

Max Osiris is a transdimensional artist — a painter whose large-format acrylics serve as portals between the material world and the geometries of altered and visionary states. His canvases are dense with fractal light, alchemical symbology, and psychedelic architecture drawn directly from dreams and expanded consciousness.

He was among the first wave of artists to mint 1-of-1 fine-art paintings as NFTs on SuperRare in 2018, becoming a foundational figure in what became known as the crypto art movement. His work bridges the physical and digital without privileging either: the canvas and the token are equally the work.

Philosophically, his practice draws from alchemy, Jungian depth, ethnobotany, and what he calls the "hyperdimensional past" — a collective unconscious encoded in geometry and light. Paintings like 5D Temple, Machinations of a Fragmented Soul, and the Ascention series are less artworks than documents of inner cartography.

He has exhibited in 14 cities across 9 countries — from a solo show in Brooklyn in 2016 to Sotheby's New York in 2023 — and has performed live at Art Basel Miami. He was twice the subject of artist reinstatement debates on the SuperRare DAO, a testament to both the institutional tensions of the space and the singular position his practice occupies within it.

Medium & Materials

Acrylic on Canvas

Large-format, typically 30″×40″ to 81″×54″. Built in dense luminous layers. Every canvas exists as a singular physical object — made once, owned once.

Ethereum Blockchain

Minted as 1-of-1 ERC-721 tokens on SuperRare and OpenSea since 2018. The token is not a reproduction — it is a parallel instantiation of the work with its own provenance and trajectory.

Performance & Installation

Live performance work including Dirty Beeps (Gonzo) at Art Basel Miami 2025. The gallery, the chain, and the stage are equally valid contexts.

Influences

Alchemy

The philosopher's Stone as metaphor — suffering into transcendence, base matter into gold. Encoded throughout the Ascention series.

Ethnobotany

Plant medicine, visionary states, and the biochemistry of consciousness as both subject matter and creative method.

Jungian Depth

The collective unconscious, archetypes, and the pineal gland as "principal seat of the soul" — referenced directly in Ascention: The Seed.

Cyberculture

Early internet, cargo cult radio, surveillance, the petrodollar — modernity's contradictions as paintable data, catalogued in Sananga & Steak.

The gift of seeing long before creating — that's what painting is. A transmission from somewhere else, fixed in acrylic.

Max Osiris  ·  Long Vision, 2025

§ 02 The Practice
I
The Physical Work

Painting

Large-format acrylic on canvas — built in dense, luminous layers over days or weeks. Light is simultaneously the subject and the material. Forms arrive whole before the brush moves. Each canvas is a singular physical object: made once, owned once, framed or unframed, never reproduced as prints.

Acrylic on Canvas 30″×40″ – 81″×54″ 1-of-1 Only No Prints
Notable works

5D Temple (2019) · 77″×55″
Macrocosm (2022) · 81″×54″
Machinations of a Fragmented Soul (2024) · 36″×48″
Sananga & Steak (2023) · 36″×48″
Long Vision (2025) · 24″×48″

II
The Digital Work

The Token

Every significant painting is minted as a 1-of-1 NFT on Ethereum — primarily through SuperRare. The token is not a JPEG of the painting. It is a parallel instantiation of the work with its own provenance, collector history, and trajectory through time. Physical and digital ownership may diverge. Both are real.

Ethereum SuperRare ERC-721 2,500+ Minted $2M+ Volume
On-chain since

First mint: 2018 on SuperRare
Primary platform: SuperRare
Secondary: OpenSea
Standard: ERC-721 · Ethereum Mainnet
Collector base: international

III
The Exhibition

Showing

From a solo show in Brooklyn in 2016 to Sotheby's New York in 2023, the work has moved through galleries, institutions, festivals, and chains. Max also performs: Dirty Beeps (Gonzo) at Art Basel Miami 2025 was a live performance work. The gallery and the blockchain are equally valid stages.

23 Exhibitions 14 Cities 9 Countries Sotheby's Art Basel
Selected venues

Sotheby's New York
NFT Factory Paris
Nagel Draxler, Cologne
Art Basel Miami
Innerspace Gallery, LA
House of Light, Brooklyn

§ 03 Chronology
2016 First Solo Show — "Light Paintings" House of Light, Brooklyn, NY. Cosmic Passports, Venice CA. Blank Slate Gallery, Sarasota FL.
2018 Joins SuperRare — Founding Wave Among the first artists minting 1-of-1 fine-art paintings on Ethereum. Begins crypto art journey spanning 2,500+ tokens.
2019 Los Angeles & Shanghai Crypto Art Show, Innerspace Gallery, LA. Big Comic Art Exposition, Shanghai. Early NFTs: 5D Temple, Transdimensional Vision, Coded Vision.
2021 European Expansion Prague, Sydney, Paris — solo show "MAX AU CARRÉ" at NFT Factory. Nagel Draxler, Cologne. Cryptoart Revolution.
2022 Global Circuit — 7 Cities Dubai, Casablanca, Riyadh, Barcelona, Miami Art Basel, Lima Peru, New Haven. Icons of Cryptoart. Ibiza NXT.
2023 Sotheby's New York "Glitch: Beyond Binary." Solo show Paris. #24CryptoArt Global. New works: Sananga & Steak, All the Gold in the Ground.
2025 Art Basel Miami — Performance Dirty Beeps (Gonzo), Dec 6. New paintings: Long Vision, Time Dilation. On-chain and available.
§ 04 Recognition & Context
Institutions & Exhibitions

Sotheby's

Glitch: Beyond Binary — New York

2023

Art Basel Miami

Future Art · Crypto Art Show 6 · Performance 2025

2022 · 2025

NFT Factory Paris

Solo show "MAX AU CARRÉ"

2022–23

Nagel Draxler

Breadcrumbs · Horizons / New Art Horizon — Cologne

2021–23

Icons of Cryptoart

Dubai · Riyadh · Casablanca

2022

Innerspace Gallery

Crypto Art Show — Los Angeles, two editions

2019–20

House of Light

Solo show "Light Paintings" — Brooklyn, NY

2017
Core Concepts

Transdimensional

Art as transmission from beyond the visible — consciousness as the primary source material

Alchemy

Transformation as subject and method — suffering into transcendence, encoded in the Ascention series

1-of-1

Scarcity is the condition of visionary work — one canvas, one token, one collector

Permanence

Canvas and blockchain as twin records — physical pigment and cryptographic proof as equals

Light

Both medium and message — every painting is ultimately a study in how luminosity structures inner space

On-Chain

The blockchain is another kind of permanence — immutable, distributed, ungoverned by gallery systems