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

Supported by 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 alongside artists 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 alongside artists Alma Berrow, Alicja Biala, Nikos Chandolias, Futurefarmers, Hypercomf, Rindon Johnson, Pia Oruño 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, 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 thanks to David Dale Gallery

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; Over the Hill and Far Away: Costume, Ritual and Rural Mysticism, ICA London, UK as part of the London Short Film Festival, 2024

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

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 alongside artists Cecilia Fiona and Leadro Pessantes

Rite of Return

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

Score: Mahmood Hussain

Supported by the Shevchenko Foundation

Premiered in solo exhibition Pour the Fear: Solastalgic Synchronicities curated by Caitlin Merrett King, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK; Screened in programmes: Collective Dreaming, Meno Avilys, 2024 & CCA Glasgow, 2023, curated by Milda Valiulytė & Julija Šilytė; Our Shape Apparently, Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick Scotland, 2022; Sometimes Time, Mourning School, Stockholm, SE, 2022; Cowlick in a Devil's Peak: A Night of Artists' Film, CCA Glasgow, 2021

Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories

Installation view of solo exhibition at Zalucky Contemporary as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, CA, 2022

Supported by the Shevchenko Foundation

Future Projections

Documentation of archival intervention, Archival digital prints, Series of 9, 2018

Collaboration with Sylvia Dmyterko

Peasants Under Glass

Documentation of archival intervention, Digital archival print, Series of 6, 60 x 66 cm, 2020

Costumes: Poltava Ensemble of Song, Music & Dance, Photography: Noel Wendt

Solastalgic Soliloquy

Single channel digital video, 05:27 minutes, 2020

Camera: Soojin Chang & Nicholas Dmyterko

Screened in solo exhibition Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, CA, 2022; group exhibitions: Labour & Memory, ACT Arts Centre, 2022, curated by Courtney Millar; Happy Tide will Flood Again, 5 Florence St, 2022 organized by Jenny Brownrigg; Ritual & Lore, Art Gallery of Regina, 2020, curated by Jess Richter; and The Land Breathes Back, aCinema Space, Milwaukee, US, 2021

Distance of Sea, of Years

Installation view, size variable, 2019

Originally exhibited as part of MFA Interim Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK, 2019 with parts later included in Ritual & Lore, Art Gallery of Regina, 2020 curated by Jess Richeter alongside artists Marigold Santos, Blair Fornwald & Brette Gabel, Audie Murray, Zoë Schneider & Maia Stark

Missed en Abyme

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

Included in The Story Began with a Beet, it must End with the Devil, Pangée, CA

The Dead Leave Us Starving with Mouths Full of Love

Oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm, 2013