Ayla Dmyterko's artworks are simultaneously real and imagined, where the viewer and artwork are not separate, but dance in a coalescing world. Grounded in lineages of painting, her field expands at times to involve installation, film, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and writing; echoing the noumenal nature of cultural memory. In her studio, she self mythologizes as a form of interpretation and relation, interested in ways that artists become mediums.
Her subjects reckon with the possession and dispossession of lands, objects, bodies and skies; derived from both lived and collective experience. Drawing parallels to initiate solidarity across time, poetics of precarity, chaos and dissonance expose the psychological effects of utopian imaginaries and the realities of post-utopian presents. In remedial response, she seeks a culture-nature synthesis; circling eternally recurring ways that images inform desire and belief.
Dmyterko recently attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, US where she completed ‘Ring Around the Sun & We Rage On,’ presented at Alma Pearl, London, UK. Solo exhibitions have also been presented by Pangée, Montréal, CA (2023 & 2016); Zalucky, Toronto, CA (2022) and Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2021). Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Alma Pearl, London, UK (2025 & 2024); Pangée, Montréal, CA (2025); Hypha Studios, London, UK (2024); KIRKI Projects, Sifnos, GR (2024) and VITRINE, Basel, CH (2022). Her films have been screened at Pleasure Dome, Toronto, CA (2025); ICA London as part of the London Short Film Festival, UK (2024); Meno Avilys, Vilnius, LI (2024); David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2023) and the CCA Glasgow, UK (2022 & 2021) among others. She completed her BFA in Painting & Printmaking at Concordia University, Montréal (2016) and her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art (2020) where she was awarded the Graduate Fellowship at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios (2021). She has since completed residencies with the Bothy Project, Cairngorms, UK (2022) and at the Banff Centre for the Arts & Creativity, CA (2024). She has spoken about her work in interviews and lectures at institutes including the Glasgow School of Art (2025 & 2022) and the Royal College of Art, London (2024).