Mariia Dilai

Mariia Mykhailivna Dilai (Марія Михайлівна Ділай; born April 7, 1980, in Ternopil ) is a Ukrainian artist, designer, and social activist.

Biography
She graduated from Ternopil Secondary School No. 27, Ternopil Cooperative College (2001, majoring in art and design), Kyiv Institute of Advertising (2004), and Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine" (2014, majoring in art and design of the architectural environment). She worked as a lecturer at the Department of Painting and Drawing at the College of the International University of Ukraine and at the "Classics" private children's development school.

She lived in the city of Málaga (Spain). She opposes domestic psychological and physical violence.

Creativity
She worked in a studio with artist Ivan Marchuk.

She has had personal exhibitions in Ternopil (2009, 2011, 2014, 2020, 2021 ), Málaga (2019, Spain).

She created a gallery of portraits of Bohdan Melnychuk, Viktor Pavlyk, Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi, Ihor Gereta, Ihor Mamus, Ihor Pelykh, Ivan Pulliuy, Ivan Franko, Johann Georg Pinsel, Lesya Ukrainka, Les Kurbas, Muammar Gaddafi (the only portrait of him that disappeared), Roman Shukhevych, Solomiya Krushelnytska, and Serhii Lazo.

In 2018, she painted a prophetic painting depicting a woman wearing a mask.

Some of the artist's paintings are in private collections in the UK, Poland and other countries.