Ayla Dmyterko

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

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 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

Always remember your home

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

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

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

A Sieve for the Sun

Oil on linen, 100 x 140 cm, 2023

Nocturnal Descent

Oil on linen, 160 x 110 x 5 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

The Silver Cord

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

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, 122 x 91 cm, Series of 8

2015

Still Life

Oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm, 2013