Dorota Łapa-Maik is a Polish contemporary artist based in Krakow. She creates expressive paintings using the language of spontaneous abstraction and improvisation. She is interested in a holistic approach to human and world, in working with both the body and the subconscious content as well as in free expression.
She graduated from the Jagiellonian University at the Faculty of Spanish Philology and attended daily studies at the Academy of Photography in Cracow. She studied painting in the studio of Dr. Tomasz Wełna in Cracow, in 2012-2016.
She was also a participant in the Creative Visionary Program (2021 and 2022) led by Californian artist Nicholas Wilton.
2025 - Finalist of the Visual Art Open 25, participating in the Finalist Exhibition, curator Karen Van Hoyeh-Smith, The Minster Building, London, United Kingdom
2025 - 10th Salon of the BWA Gallery in Tarnów, Poland; exhibition's commissioners: Piotr Kukla, Miłosz Onak
2024 - solo exhibition ‘Finding the Goddess’, curator Izabela Rogala, Defabryka independent art space, Warsaw
2023 - solo show 2023 'Painting the Soul’, curator Patrycja Ignaczak, Artshow, Warsaw, Poland
2023 - solo show 2023 ‘New Day’, Apteka Sztuki Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2020 - solo show ‘'Connections, Flows, Relations’, U Jezuitów Gallery, Poznań, Poland
