Maria Haag is a Dallas-based artist who paints surreal landscapes inspired by the open horizons and shifting light of the Great Plains. Haag’s recent solo exhibitions include Wayfaring Stranger at James Cope Gallery in Dallas (2024), As Above So Below at Charles Adams Studio Project in Lubbock (2023), and Take Me from Myself at Pencil on Paper Gallery in Dallas (2023). She has participated in group shows at venues such as the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center and Morgan Presents in New York. She holds an MFA from the University of North Texas and a BFA from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. She was awarded the Charles and Margaret Pollack Art Purchase Award from the Mulvane Museum in Topeka, Kansas, where her work is included in the permanent collection. Haag was part of the Cedars Union’s third artist cohort and has contributed to the Dallas in Prizzi mural project in Sicily.