Ayla Dmyterko

Oil painting of a red sun with incantations scrawled in the water below it. The painting is framed with lost wax cast bronze.

Edified Eddies

Oil on linen in lost wax bronze frame, 25 x 20 x 5.5 cm, 2025

A large oil painting of a long road on a field. In the distance, two tornadoes kiss above a sun that has ribbon-like rays spewing from it. At the bottom of the painting, a spy-girl figure appears in a spotlight, hanging off of the edge of the long road.

The Middle Distance

Oil on linen with beeswax, 150 x 110 cm, 2025

A black block monitor on the ground of a white-walled space. On the screen is a figure wearing a beige trench coat and red headscarf, with her back turned, walking toward an orange sun.

SK Eye

Single-channel video, 14:43 min, 2025

An installation shot of an art exhibition. There are two large paintings on the walls, and a block monitor on the floor. The hallway in the distance displays a series of six smaller scale paintings.

Ring Around the Sun & We Rage On

Installation view, Alma Pearl, London, UK, 2025

A large oil painting showing a figure wearing a pink trenchcoat sitting on a field. Footprints convey that she has climbed up to this spot, as she looks back at the viewer. In her hand is a dried dandelion, or a wish flower. Surrounding her are wilting sunflowers. In the background, a grain elevator, farmhouse, and a ladder slowly rise up into the sky.

Circles of Confusion

Oil on linen with beeswax, 150 x 110 cm, 2025

An oil painting with abstract and floral forms framed in an antique wooden kiot.

In the darkest nights, remember the sun

Oil on linen in wooden kiot, 44.5 x 31.5 x 9.5 cm, 2025

Ring Around the Sun & We Rage On

Installation view, Alma Pearl, London, UK, 2025

Secrets Fall in the Forest

Oil on linen in found wooden screen, 84 x 90 cm, 2025

Always remember your home

Glazed stoneware ceramic, 8 x 23 x 13 cm, 2025

Caim

Oil on linen, series of 6, each 48 x 41 cm, 2025

Dance of the Fated Furies

Single-channel video installation, 09:49 min, 2025

Dancers: Poltava Ensemble, Theremin score: Christina Masha Milinusic

No Plein Aire

Oil on linen in singed breadtray, 54.5 x 80.5 cm, 2024

Dichroic Glass, Dithyrambic Sun

Oil on linen in singed breadtray, 54.5 x 80.5 cm, 2024

Liberate Thee, Angel of History

Installation view, Pangée, Montréal, CA, 2023

Nocturnal Descent

Oil on linen, 160 x 110 x 5 cm, 2023

A Sieve for the Sun

Oil on linen, 100 x 140 cm, 2023

Milk River

Oil on linen, 45.5 x 40 cm, 2023

Immanent Waver

Oil on linen, 100 x 140 cm, 2023

Fire in Middle Mount

Oil on linen, 45.5 x 40 cm, 2023

Warnings in the Weft

Oil on linen with carved wooden frame, 87 x 50 x 7 cm, 2022

The Silver Cord

Oil on linen, 45.5 x 40 cm, 2023

On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes

16mm and digital video, 09:55 minutes, 2023

Director of Photography: Alex Hetherington, Score: Miel, Dancer: Kirstin Halliday

Warped Warnings

Installation view, 5 Florence St, 2022

The land gives everything and takes away everything

Oil on linen with found wooden frame, 90 x 54.5 x 7.5 cm, 2021

Circles around the onion dome

Oil on Linen with poured beeswax frame, 62 x 54 x 6 cm, 2021

Like sour oranges for breakfast & Patterns under the plough

Oil on linen with found wooden frames, each 94 x 47 x 6 cm, 2021

Can’t catch lost time or the thinning earth

Oil on linen in beeswax frame, 70 x 55 x 9 cm, 2021

Rite of Return

Single-channel digital video stills, 11:52 minutes, 2021

Score: Mahmood Hussain

Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories

Installation view, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, CA, 2022

Future Projections

Archival intervention, series of 9, 2018

Peasants Under Glass

Archival intervention, series of 6, 60 x 66 cm, 2020

Solastalgic Soliloquy

Single channel digital video, 05:27 minutes, 2020

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Which Way Up

Oil on canvas, series of 8, each 122 x 91 cm, 2015

Included in The Tale Began with a Beet, It Must End with the Devil, Pangée, Montréal

Still Life

Oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm, 2013