AYLA DMYTERKO


Ayla Dmyterko (b. 1988, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her 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, KIRKI Projects, Sifnos Island, Greece (2024); Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London (2024); and The Grass at Our Feet, VITRINE, Basel, Switzerland.

She completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2025) and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada (2024), among others. 

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Ayla Dmyterko
Secrets fall in the forest, 2025
Oil and distemper on linen in found wooden screen
84 x 90 cm
33 x 35 1/2 in
(ADM036)

Installation view 


Ayla Dmyterko
Edified Eddies, 2025
Oil on Linen in cast bronze frame
25 x 20 x 5.5 cm
10 x 8 x 2 in
(ADM024)

Ayla Dmyterko
Halcyon High, 2025
Oil on linen
40 x 46 cm
16 x 18 in
(ADM010)

Ayla Dmyterko
Always remember your home I, 2025
Stoneware ceramic, glazed
8 x 23 x 13 cm
3 x 9 x 5 in
(ADM025)

Ayla Dmyterko
Sun-based Materialism 2 "No Plien Air", 2023
Oil on linen with found wooden bread tray
80.5 x 54.5 cm
31 3/4 x 21 1/2 in
(ADM002)


Ayla Dmyterko
The Middle Distance, 2025
Oil on linen with beeswax
150 x 110 cm
59 x 43 1/2 in
(ADM018)

Installation view
Ayla Dmyterko: Ring Around The Sun & We Rage On, Alma Pearl, London (2025)

Ayla Dmyterko
SK Eye, 2025
Single–channel video
14:43 min
Edition of 3 + 1 AP


Ayla Dmyterko
Solastalgic Soliloquy,
2020
Single channel digital video
5:27 min 


Ayla Dmyterko
On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes
, 2023
Single-channel 16mm and digital video
9:55 min

Installation view: Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, Canada. Image Credit: Document Original