Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley whose practice spans drawing, painting, and sculpture. Through direct observation in remote environments, she studies the movement and structures of natural systems, including river currents, wind patterns, ecosystems, and organic growth. Marieken translates their energy into abstract forms that examine the boundary between perception and experience through layered imagery, tactile surfaces, and the material qualities of steel.

Marieken studied photography at the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands, and is self-taught in drawing, painting, and sculpture. In 2021, she received a New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant for an Individual Artist Commission, following a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Her public sculpture for the Village of Wappingers Falls was completed in 2017 with support from the Hudson River Foundation. Recent solo exhibitions include Garrison Art Center in New York and MIMIK in Deventer, the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in exhibitions at Zürcher Gallery, Sohn Fine Art, and Lockwood Gallery, and in The New York Times, Elle Decor, Columbia Journal, and more than forty art, literary, and academic publications.