Vasya Dmytryk (b. 1991, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) graduated from the Grekova Art School in Odesa in 2016. He works mostly with sculptures and installations. Member of the SRZ-2 community.
In his practice, Dmytryk addresses cultural traditions of different times and ethnicities, his main theme of work being modern social and environmental phenomena, where Dmytryk achieves a critical view of them through the use of the metaphor of relevancy and the recontextualization of found objects.
Lives and works in Odesa, Ukraine.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
2024
Not to open. Stored forever, The Korsaks’ Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art, Lutsk, Ukraine
Poisons Copper, Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery, Pidhirtsi Castle, Ukraine
Heating season, KRCC, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine
Heating season, Odesa National Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Heating season, Asortymentna Kymnata Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2023
Keep forever. Do not disclose, Odesa National Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
2020
Industrial Fairytale, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019
Industrial Fairytale, Muzeon, Odesa, Ukraine
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2025
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
The front door is barely ajar, Vitalnya Community, Odesa, Ukraine
2024
Security measures. Zhanna Kadyrova, Vasya Dmytryk, Public Shelters, Odesa
State of the Artist, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Odesa summer, Serpen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
What are water dreams about?, Asortymentna Kymnata Gallery, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2023
Ty yak?, National Center Ukrainian House, Kyiv
Svitlo, Union Francaisc de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2022
Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, USA. Presented by Artoholic Gallery
Statement: Ukraine_The Cockerel with Black Wings, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria
On time, Strychkotkatska Fabrika, Kyiv, Ukraine
Before War, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine
Sensing Places/Placing Senses, ODP Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Cost of war, ARC Gallery, Chicago, USA
Diaries, Dymchuk Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2021
2020
Gray Mandorla Manifest, Gray Mandorla Studio, Poznan, Poland
Ready, steady, collect, Avangarden Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
Contemplating the changing space, Muzeon Experimental Centre, Odesa, Ukraine
Untitled Era, Avangarden Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
100 years later. Kyriak Kostandi, Odesa National Museum of Fine Arts, Ukraine
Swimming was not allowed in the plant’s aquatorium, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
Contact Zones, Brave! Factory Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine
About the wolf thing, and the wolf to meet, within the residence Fantazery, Yasinya, Ukraine
From the twenties to the twenties, Odesa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine
Industrial fairytale, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
Other Nature, Green Theatre, Odesa, Ukraine
Time to collect, Odesa Museum of Modern Art, Ukraine
It was forbidden to swim in the water area of the plant, Invogue Gallery, Odesa
7J/7, Invogue Gallery, Odesa, Ukraine
Future is today, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, online
2019
Past, Future, Present, Siniy Crab, Odesa, Ukraine
(SELF)IDENTIFICATION, Invogue Gallery, Odesa, Ukraine
Neformat, Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Ukraine
2014
Sculpture in the open air, Odesa Art Museum, Ukraine
Residences
2021
2020
Fantazery. Yasinya, Ukraine
Transcarpathia: inside and outside. Dofa Fund. Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Izolyatsia, Soledar, Ukraine
Ideaton, Kherson, Ukraine
Publication (selected)
Vasya Dmytryk. Heating season, artbook / А. Karavay, C.Lypatov. К.: ilostmylibrary, 2024. pp 84
Tetyana Solovey. Vasyl Dmyryk: Industrial Systems VS. Natural Environment // Ukraine Rising. Contemporary Creative Culture from Ukraine / L. Bondar. Berlin, 2023. pp. 143-148
Ilya Levchenko. Vasya Dmytryk on Public art and the role of art during the war // Antikvar, 2022
Le Monde diplomatique, (February 2022)
Art Hole Magazine, issue 2, (July 2020)
"Ether: volume one", IN/Passing NYC. Curated by Julia Blume, (June 2020)
Art Hole Magazine, issue 1, (June 2020)