Ayla Dmyterko b. 1988

Ayla Dmyterko's artworks reckon with the possession and dispossession of lands, objects, bodies, and skies, drawn from both lived and collective experience. In a remedial response, she embraces a culture–nature synthesis.

Grounded in lineages of painting, her practice at times expands into moving image, performance, material cultures, and text, echoing the noumenal nature of cultural memory. Her works function as animist rituals referencing psychedelia, the Ukrainian Avant-Garde, transcendentalist painting, and the aura of archival objects, with particular attention to her experience of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada.

Recent solo exhibitions include Ring Around the Sun & We Rage On, Alma Pearl, London (2025); Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, Canada (2023); Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, Canada (2022); and The Story Began With a Beet (It Must End With The Devil), Pangée, Montréal, Canada (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Fools for Truth, Pangée, Montréal, Canada (2025); Viaggi / Journeys, Alma Pearl, London (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); and The Grass at Our Feet, VITRINE, Basel, Switzerland.