Ayla Olya 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 of solo exhibition at Alma Pearl, London, UK, 2025

With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

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

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

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

Always remember your home

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

Red Scry at Night, Painter's Delight

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

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

Sun-Based Materialisms were included in Bitch Magic, a group exhibition curated by Celeste Baracchi at Alma Pearl, London, UK with works by Renate Bertlmann, Permindar Kaur, Rebecca Parkin, Tai Shani, Penny Slinger, Georgina Starr, Unyimeabasi Udoh and the artist duo Cullinan Richards.

Soil Horizon

Installation view of a group exhibition curated by KIRKI Projects at the Old School of Kastro, Sifnos, GR, 2024, including works by Alma Berrow, Alicja Biała, Nikos Chandolias (FMDB), Futurefarmers, Hypercomf, Rindon Johnson, Pia Ortuño and Paky Vlassopoulou.

Buns of Steel

Oil on linen with found wooden frame, 64 x 51 cm, 2024

Nocturnal Descent

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

Included in solo exhibition Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, CA, 2023 & Antigone Revisited, a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph, Hypha Studios, London UK including works by Alexi Marshall, Alice Anderson, Alicia Radage, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Anna Perach, Ariane Heloise Hughes, Becky Tucker, Bethany Stead, Camilla Hanney, Cecilia Charlton, Chantal Powell, Ingrid Berthon-M0ine, KV Duong, Maria Konder, Richard Malone and Scarlett Pochet, 2024

Liberate Thee, Angel of History

Installation view of solo exhibition at Pangée, Montréal, CA, 2023

Supported by Creative Scotland

The Silver Cord

Oil on linen with spike lavender & beeswax, 45.5 x 40 cm, 2023

A Sieve for the Sun

Oil on linen, 100 x 140 cm, 2022

Liberate Thee, Angel of History

Installation view of solo exhibition at Pangée, Montréal, CA, 2023

Supported by Creative Scotland

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

On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes

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

Director of Photography: Alex Hetherington, Score: Miel, Dancer: Kirstin Halliday, Film Processing: Kodak Film Lab, London, UK

Supported by Canada Council for the Arts with special thanks to David Dale Gallery & Studios

North American Premiere: solo exhibition Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, CA, 2023; UK Premiere: David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK curated by Caitlin Merrett King in collaboration with the Dovzhenko Studios, Kyiv, UA, 2023; screened in programmes: Dislocated Visions, curated by Dr. Lauren Fournier at Pleasure Dome, Toronto, CA, 2025 alongside works by Petra Totten, Sona Safaei, Warren Chan and Ella Morton; Over the Hill and Far Away: Costume, Ritual and Rural Mysticism, ICA London, UK as part of the London Short Film Festival, 2024 including works by Finn Darrell, Stenzin Tankong, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Edie Morris and Malin Ingrid Johansson

Warnings in the Weft

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

Warped Warnings

Total Installation; oil on raw linen, USSR-era matryoshka dolls, stoneware hollyhocks with crackle glaze, cotton thread on woven polypropylene and archival textile, onions, satin ribbons, cross-century regalia and a para-fictional text titled A Call for Recur printed at Sunday’s Print Service

Included in exhibition Happy Tide Will Flood Again organized by Jenny Brownrigg, 5 Florence St, 2022 including works by artists Ali Lotz, Fionn Duffy, Jose Carlos Rivera, Lillian Ross-Millard, Ned Pooler, NNNull, Ragini Chawla, Rodrigo Nava Ramírez, Seongsu Kim, Sooun Kim and Wei Zhang

Can’t catch lost time or the thinning earth

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

The land gives everything and takes away everything

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

Included in exhibition Pour the Fear: Solastalgic Synchronicities curated by Caitlin Merrett King, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK, 2021 & The Grass at Our Feet at VITRINE, Basel, CH, 2022 including works by artists Cecilia Fiona and Leandro Pesantes

Supported by Creative Scotland