Education
• Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, US, 2025
• Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, UK, 2020
• Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting & Drawing), Concordia University, Montréal, CA, 2016
• Bachelor of Education (Visual Art & Dance), University of Regina, CA, 2011
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: Ukrainian-Canadian Contexts, 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, Visual Arts Scotland, 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, alongside screening of Kyiv Frescoes, Dovzhenko Centre, UK at 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
Commissions, Grants & Awards
Creative Scotland, Open Fund for Individuals, UK, 2025, 2024, 2023 & 2021
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore & Create, Concept to Realization, CA, 2025 & 2024
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore & Create, Research & Creation, CA, 2024
Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Fund Outstanding Artist Endowment, CA, 2023
VACMA, Glasgow Life & Creative Scotland, UK, 2023 & 2021
Stephen Palmer Travel Bursary, Creative Scotland, UK, 2022
Jean Karakola & Linda Ladin Visual Arts Fund, Shevchenko Foundation, CA, 2022
Sculptural Commission, Cop-27, United Nations, 2022
Visual Arts Grant, Hope Scott Trust Foundation, UK, 2021
Artist Grant, Eaton Fund, UK, 2021
Visual Arts Grant, Shevchenko Foundation, CA, 2021
Artist Talks & Teaching
(upcoming) Artist Talk, Glasgow School of Art, 2026
Artist Talk, Yampil Museum of Fine Art, UA, 2025
Visiting Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, UK, 2025
Silver Cord Sliver, Artist Talk, Painting MA, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 2024
Panel led by Celeste Baracchi & Linda Stupart alongside Bitch Magic, Alma Pearl, London, UK, 2024
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Artist Talk, U-Kino SODA, Manchester Met University, UK, 2024
Memory Work, Visiting Artist Workshop, Ukrainian Residenz, Berlin, DE, 2024
Artist Talk alongside Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories, Zalucky & St. Volodymyr Institute, 2022
Lecturer, Academic English for Creative Disciplines, Glasgow School of Art, UK, 2019-21
Artist Talk, alongside The Candahar by Theo Sims, MacKenzie Art Gallery, CA, 2016
Public Collections
National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection
St. Volodymyr Institute Permanent Collection
Concordia University Special Collections and Archives
Represented by Alma Pearl, London, UK
Ayla Olya Dmyterko is a Ukrainian-Canadian artist based in the UK and working internationally. She was born in 1988 on the lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, as well as the homeland of the Métis Nation, Treaty 4 Territory, Saskatchewan.