Ayla Dmyterko Ukrainian-Canadian, b. 1988
Overview
Photo © Maegan Gaudette
Drawing on her own experience of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, Dmyterko works across painting, sculpture, installation and moving image to explore themes around patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism and ecology.
Ayla Dmyterko (b. 1988) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. She completed her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, where she was awarded the Graduate Fellowship through the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Dmyterko uses painting, sculpture, installation and film to explore her heritage as a displaced, but now rooted community. Dmyterko uses her familial lived experience, their generational histories, and ancestral wisdom, to revive and disseminate cultural memories in relation to subjects of trauma, such as displacement and environmental collapse, but also eco-feminist positions and empowerment.
Dmyterko has exhibited her work internationally at Pangée, Montréal; VITRINE, Basel & London; Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto; Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick; Mourning School, Stockholm; CCA Glasgow; Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow; Art Gallery of Regina; Hague Gallery, Regina; aCinema, Milwaukee; Regina Performing Arts Centre; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Gallery Aux Vues, Montréal.
Works
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Ayla DmyterkoSun-based Materialism 1 "Dichroic Glass, Dithyrambic Sun", 2023Oil on linen with found wooden bread tray80.5 x 54.5 cm
31 3/4 x 21 1/2 in -
Ayla DmyterkoSun-based Materialism 2 "No Plien Air", 2023Oil on linen with found wooden bread tray80.5 x 54.5 cm
31 3/4 x 21 1/2 in -
Ayla DmyterkoSun-based Materialism 3 "Red Scry at Night, Painters Delight", 2023Oil on linen with found wooden bread tray80.5 x 54.5 cm
31 3/4 x 21 1/2 in
Exhibitions
