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 will take part in the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA) in the summer of 2025. 

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.

Dmyterko has presented solo exhibitions at Pangée, Montréal, CA (2023), and Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, CA (2022), among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions internationally, including London, Basel, and Glasgow. 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.