Mariia Dilai

• Name — Mariia Dilai • Birth Name — Mariia Mykhailivna Dilai • Born — 7 April 1980 • Birthplace — Ternopil • Education — Ternopil Cooperative College, Kyiv Institute of Advertising, Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine" • Occupation — Painting

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.

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.

Mariia Dilai is recorded with the occupation social activist. Recorded as painter, designer and social activist.