Ayla Dmyterko

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Ayla Olya Dmyterko (b. 1988) is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist currently based in the Glasgow, Scotland and working internationally. She was born on the lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, as well as the homeland of the Métis Nation, Treaty 4, Saskatchewan.

Education
• Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, US
• Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, UK
• Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Concordia University, Montréal, CA
• Bachelor of Education (Visual Art & Dance), University of Regina, CA

Solo Exhibitions
2025 Ring Around the Sun & We Rage On, Alma Pearl, London, UK
2023 Liberate Thee, Angel of History, Pangée, Montréal, CA
2022 Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, CA
2021 POUR THE FEAR: Solastalgic Synchronicities, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2016 The Story Began with a Beet (It Must End with the Devil), Pangée, Montréal, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
• (upcoming) Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
2025
Salon, Slugtown, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Fools for Truth, Pangée, Montréal, CA
Viaggi / Journeys, ​A+B Gallery (Brescia, IT), Matèria, (Rome, IT), Pinksummer, (Genoa, IT), and z2o Sara Zanin (Rome, IT), hosted by Alma Pearl Gallery, London, UK
The Golden Hour, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Fresco Workshop, US
Gwenan International, Glasgow Project Room, UK
2024
Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London, UK
Soil Horizon, KIRKI Projects, Sifnos, GR
Antigone Revisited, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Hypha Studios, London, UK
• The Seasons Reverse, 36 Washington St Studios, Glasgow, UK
2022
The Grass At Our Feet, VITRINE, Basel, CH
Labour & Memory, ACT Arts Centre, Maple Ridge, CA
Happy Tide Will Flood Again, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, UK
Artists for Ukraine, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, UK
Reverb, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2020
Ritual & Lore, Art Gallery of Regina, CA

Screenings
2025
Dislocated Visions, curated by Dr. Lauren Fournier, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, CA
Unholy Inheritance curated by Xinema, Winnipeg Underground Film Fest, CA
To Be in a Time of War, performance with Nadja Abt, 'The Garden Show,' Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, US
2024
Over the Hill & Far Away, London Short Film Festival, ICA London, UK
Collective Dreaming, Meno Avilys, Vilnius, LI
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, SODA, Manchester, UK
Drawing From Calcareous Milk Teeth, aCinema Space, Milwaukee, US
2023
On Volya: Filling in the Frescoes, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2022
The Ties That Bind, Collective Dreaming, CCA Glasgow, UK
Our Shape Apparently, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, UK
Sometimes Time, Mourning School, Stockholm, SE
2021
Cowlick in a Devil’s Peak, CCA Glasgow, UK
And the Land Breathes Back, aCinema, Milwaukee, US

Fellowships & Residencies
2024 Summer Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, CA
2023 Artist in Residence, Résidence Pangée, Montréal, CA
2022 The Bothy Project, Inshriach House, Cairngorm Forest, Scotland, UK
2021 Graduate Fellowship, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, UK
2021 The Work Room, Tramway, UK
2012 Summer Artist in Residence, Emma Lake Residency, Saskatchewan, CA

Selected Bibliography
• (upcoming) Feature, Art Canada Institute, writ. Philip Dumbowsky, 2026
In the Middle Distance, interview with Maegan Beck, Blackflash Magazine. 42 no.2, CA, 2025
Animist Approaches to Culture-Nature, Interview, Engage Scotland, 2024
History Repeats Itself writ. Agnieszka Matejko, Galleries West, CA, 2023
In the Weeds, Interview with Veronika Ivanova, CKUT Montréal, CA & Vilnius Radio, LI, 2023
Generational Return, interview w M. Valiulytė & J. Šilytė, Collective Dreaming, CCA Glasgow Annex, UK, 2023
• Ukraine on the Membrane, FORMA Editions, London, UK, 2023
Interview w Caitlin Merrett King, Young Artists in Conversation, UK, 2022
• What is Read in the Wax writ. Sam Weselowski, ReIssue Magazine, Vancouver, CA, 2022
Boym's Berlin in ‘The Future Of…,’ KAJET Journal, Bucharest, RO, 2022
Ukrainian-Canadian artist brings folklore & history together, The Ridge, CA, 2022
• Solastalgic Synchronicities, Art Maze Mag Ed 26, New York, US, 2022
& History Wails Beneath Us in Language Compendium, 2 Queens Gallery, Leicester, UK, 2022
Northern Exposure, Art Canada Institute, Toronto, CA, 2022
Tell a Tale to be Preserved writ Yuri Bilinsky, New Pathways, CA, 2022
Pour the Fear, KUBA Paris, Bonn, DE, 2021
Eternal Recurrence of Escapist Spectre in ‘Penrose Helix,’ London, UK, 2021
Certainty and its Refractions writ. Dr. Ranjana Thapalyal, MAP Magazine, Glasgow, UK, 2020
Our Ancestors Exist as a Reliquary of Whispers, KAJET Journal, Bucharest, RO, 2020
• Ritual & Lore, Exhibition Catalogue and Text writ Jess Richter, Art Gallery of Regina, CA , 2020
Cultural Memories writ. Jera MacPherson, Galleries West, CA, 2020
• Distance of Sea, of Years in ‘Chains,’ CCA Glasgow & Kunsthochschule Mainz, DE, 2019

Artist Talks & Teaching
• Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 2025
• Visiting Lecturer, Painting MA, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2024
• Panel led by Celeste Baracchi & Linda Stupart, Alma Pearl, London, UK, 2024
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2024
• Auto-Theory & Cultural Memory, Ukrainian Residenz, Berlin, DE, 2024
• Artist Talk, Zalucky Contemporary and St. Volodymyr Institute, CA, 2022
• Artist Talk, Academic English for Creative Disciplines, Glasgow School of Art, 2021

Collections and Archives
Ayla Dmyterko's artistic archive is held in the National Gallery of Canada Archives & Collections. Her work has been acquired by the Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection, St. Volodymyr Institute and is included in private collections in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Ayla Dmyterko would like to acknowledge the ongoing support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Creative Scotland and the Shevchenko Foundation.