Ayla Dmyterko b. 1988

Ayla Dmyterko (b. 1988, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist currently based in Glasgow, Scotland. She received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, where Dmyterko was awarded the Graduate Fellowship through the Glasgow Sculpture Studios. She has been in residence at the Banff Centre (Canada) and is curretly taking part in the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (US). 

Working across painting, sculpture, installation, film, and text, Dmyterko draws from her lived familial experience, generational histories, and ancestral wisdom to revive and disseminate cultural memories related to trauma, including displacement and environmental collapse, while also exploring eco-feminist positions and empowerment.

Recent exhibitions include Viaggi / Journeys, Alma Pearl, London (2025); Fools for Truth, Pangée, Montréal, Canada (2025); Antigone Revisited, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Hypha Studios, London (2024); What We Mean to Say, Banff Centre, Canada (2024); Soil Horizon, KIKRKI Projects, Sifnos Island, Greece (2024); Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London (2024); The Grass at Our Feet, VITRINE, Basel, Switzerland; and her solo exhibitions Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, Canada (2023) and Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, Canada. Dmyterko’s first solo exhibition in London is scheduled for Autumn 2025 at Alma Pearl.

The film On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes, 2023 was screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, as part of the London Short Film Festival 2024. Dmyterko's archive is held at the National Gallery of Canada. Her work has been collected by the Saskatchewan Arts Board's Permanent Collection and is included in private collections in Canada and the UK.