Sina Ghadaksaz Iranian, b. 1992

Sina Ghadaksaz (b. 1992, Tabriz) is a multimedia artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of painting, anthropological inquiry, and material experimentation. Trained in Multimedia Arts and later completing an MFA in Art Studies at Tabriz University, Ghadaksaz approaches image-making as an extension of his work as an art ethnographer. His practice is grounded in the belief that painting can function as a form of cultural and existential investigation—less through conceptual declaration than through the physical labor of making images.
Ghadaksaz’s work centers on recurring visual and narrative motifs, most notably Sugar, a fictional, organic character developed over several years. Sugar embodies an alternative evolutionary path—an existence free from human ego, driven instead by adaptation, prudence, and minimal effort. Through this character, the artist asks a persistent speculative question: What if evolution had taken a different route? In this framework, painting becomes a cognitive stimulant: a medium capable of delivering pleasure, energy, and imaginative possibility, much like sugar itself within the human body.
His expansive material vocabulary—ranging from oil painting to wood and ceramic sculpture, wall drawings, video projection, and mixed-media installations—supports a practice that is both deeply painterly and continuously experimental. Though he explores various materials, Ghadaksaz is fundamentally a painter: his mastery of oil, executed with such extreme precision that it is often mistaken for pencil, anchors even his most interdisciplinary works.
Ghadaksaz has exhibited widely within Iran and internationally. His work has been shown at major art fairs, including Art021 Shanghai (2021), where he was presented by Dastan Gallery alongside leading Iranian contemporaries, and UNTITLED Miami Beach (2022), where he had a duo presentation with Milad Mousavi. He has held three solo exhibitions at Dastan’s Basement—A Spectacle (2020), Sugar in the Basement (2022), and Sugar and the Sweetness of Evil (2025)—each expanding the mythology and material articulation of the Sugar universe. His institutional presence includes exhibitions at the Sanati Contemporary Art Museum in Kerman (2019) and international presentations such as Soft Edge of the Blade Vol. 2 at Zaal Art Gallery, Toronto (2023). His work is included in notable publications such as Imago Mundi (Luciano Benetton Collection) and Mundial Magazine.