BIO
Marieken Cochius is a Dutch-born artist who is drawn to remote places where she studies nature and makes art inspired by it. Her work encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture.
In 2021 Cochius received an NYSCA Decentralization Grant for an Individual Artist Commission. She is a 2020 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund grant.
In 2017 Cochius completed a public sculpture commission for the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY made possible by a grant from the Hudson River Foundation.
Recent solo shows were at Garrison Art Center in Garrison, NY and MIMIK in Deventer, the Netherlands. She has participated in residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
Cochius' work has been shown in group exhibitions at Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY, Sohn Fine Art in Lenox, MA, the Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY more. Her work has been shown in Elle Decor, Columbia Journal, the New York Times, and in over 40 art, literary, poetry and university publications in the USA and abroad. Cochius studied photography at the Art Academy St Joost in Breda, the Netherlands and is self taught in drawing, sculpture and painting. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.
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STATEMENT
My work explores the kinetic energy in nature within complex networks of ecosystems, growth forms, and the effects of wind and water. I’m influenced by direct observation of the natural world, following boils in a river, or wind gusting through a field.
I see these types of phenomena as sensitive chaos containing and propelling the origins and energies of life. I don’t attempt to capture these moments literally but instead channel the movement through abstract forms. My work comes from a subconscious place, and I often see connections after the work is finished.
I aim to evoke the mystery and power of nature by exploring the materiality of steel with tactile forms and imagery that explores the porous boundary between perception and experience.
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EDUCATION
1987-1990 Still Photography, Kunst Academie St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands
1990-1993 Film and Video, Kunst Academie St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands
1993 Quit Art Academy and emigrated to New York, NY
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PUBLIC WORKS
2017 Driftwood and metal sculpture commissioned by the Village of Wappingers Falls, NY. Installation 12/20/2020
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Axons/Dendrites, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
2024 Energies of Tenderness, MIMIK, Deventer, The Netherlands
2023 Listening to music in languages I do not speak, DNA Galerie, Deventer, the Netherlands
2022 Guiding The Currents, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY
Impulse and Stillness, Palmer Gallery, VASSAR College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Elements of the Motherboard; According to Plan, Patchett Gallery, Montgomery, NY
2016 A Space Once Occupied, Now Empty, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Invisible Nature, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY (Solo)
2005 Oology, Jacklight Gallery, New York, NY
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 02/06-02/22 SHED (My Skin), curated by Janet Rutkowski, ArtCake, Brooklyn, NY
02/07-04/04 Foundations of Practice, Pictorial Foundation, Newburgh, NY
2025 14th Annual Group Show, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
Kingston Design Show House 2025, Marilyne Damour, Kingston ,NY
Of Hush and Hull, curated by Aleksandra Scepanovic and Jen Miller, Kingston, NY
100 Women of Spirit Part 3, Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY
Between Knowing and Not, Curated by Lauren Hirschield, ADS Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Blaze, Smolder, Char, Sohn Fine Art Gallery, Lenox, MA
Blauwdruck onder Nul, EICAS Museum, Deventer, The Netherlands
Destination Earth, Ligenza-Moore Gallery, Cold Spring, NY
POV, Sohn Fine Art Gallery, Lenox, MA
MONO - A - MONO, the Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
Women of the Elements, curated by Karen Dimit and Janet Rutkowski, LIC-A Factory, LIC, NY
2024 Phantom City, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
Plant Matter, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
The Librarian, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
Path of Totality, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2023 (2 person) Blikken op Oneindigheid: De Hare en de Zijne, Kasteel de Haere, Olst, The Netherlands
In Pursuit of Color 2023, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
Driven to Abstraction, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2022 The 2022 Kingston Design Showhouse: Artworks selected by Pippa Biddle, Kingston, NY
2021 The 2021 Kingston Design Showhouse: Artworks selected by Maryline Damour, Kingston, NY
One Thing Leads to Another, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
IMPULSE, 6th International Drawing Triennial in Tallinn, Estonia
2021 Curated by Joseph Fucigna, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
CreArt Music Festival 2020/21 music and art online and live at the Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Works on Paper, LBIF, curated by Lanka Tattersall (MoMA), Loveladies, NJ
National Show, curated by Margaret Winslow, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2021 National, curated by Alice Gray Stites, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
ViewPoints, curated by Eleanna Anagnos director of OyG Projects, Studio Montclair, Montclair, New Jersey
Home Sick, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, The Art Effect, Poughkeepsie, NY
2020 Small works, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Terra/Derma, Holland Tunnel Newburgh Gallery, Newburgh, NY(3 person show)
Bloom, Awakenings, Chicago, IL
In Between, Local Project Art Space, Long Island City, NY
Open Air 2020, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, UConn Avery Point, CT
Global Impact, Foundry Art Centre, St Charles, MS
What Matters Most, curated by Huguette Despault-May, The Artist Essentials
Looking back in Wonder, curated by Greg Slick and Eliza Pritzker, AMH, Poughkeepsie, NY
On the Surface, curated by Neil Walsh, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
artWork from Home, Art Gym Denver, Denver, CO
Stay Home Make Art, IG 5/11/2020 , Samual Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
Large Works, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2019 (2 person) Natural Inclinations, ARTBAR gallery, Kingston, NY
Portals, curated by Linda Marston-Reid, Queen City 15, Poughkeepsie, NY
Canopy, 3 person show, curated by Chris Davison, Hudson Beach Glass Gallery, Beacon, NY
Radius 50 curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Albright Knox Gallery, WAAM, Woodstock, NY
Ear To The Ground, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2018 (2 person) Complex Ecologies, CMA gallery, MSMC Newburgh, NY
(2 person) Dark Matter, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Met-a-mor-pho-sis, Percolate Art Space, Pittsburgh, PA
Relishing Restraints, curated by Krista Saunders Scenna, Loft Artist Gallery, Stamford, CT
Allow me to Reintroduce Myself, curated by Krista Saunders Scenna, Cigar Factory, Long Island City, NY
Far and wide, curated by Daniel Belasco, Al Held Foundation, WAAM, Woodstock, NY
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Silent Sentinels, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh,NY
Taconic North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Through the Rabbit hole II, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Artist in the world, #249 Project by André Smits
Through the Rabbit hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 From where I stand, Ube Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Microcosm, GCCA, Catskill, NY
New Works Show, Seton Hall School of Law University, Newark, NJ
Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Framed, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Energy Fields, curated by Marieken Cochius, The Lofts at Beacon Gallery, Beacon, NY
Textile Show, The Lofts at Beacon Gallery, Beacon, NY
Sideshow Nation At The Alamo, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Unsteady Ground, CWOW Gallery, Newark, NJ
Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
Mullagatawny, Liberty Arts, Yreka, California
100 works on paper, Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY
Mic Check Occupy, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Benefit for Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, New York, NY
2010 Wish you were here, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Stations, Pump Project, Austin, Texas
It's a wonderful tenth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Raum fuer Kunst und Kommunikation, Monchengladbach, Germany
2007 Raum fuer Kunst und Kommunikation, Monchengladbach, Germany
Hot summer art battle, curator Saito, Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan
ANA 35, curator Willem Volkersz Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
National, curator Thomas Lentz, Harvard Museum, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Small works, curator Jim Kempner, Washington Sq. East Galleries: New York, NY
2006 Long Island City artists, Citibank Headquarters: Queens, NY
Small works, curator Jack Shainman, Washington Sq. East Galleries: New York, NY
2005 Scream, Jacklight Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Why War, Why Dubya?, Viridian Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Concert Series, collaboration w. composer Jorrit Dijkstra, New Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Between fear and freedom: Duct tape. Collaboration w. Jeff Slomba, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2002 Mermaid Show, Holland Tunnel Gallery Brooklyn, NY
Day Job, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington, MA
2001 Cross Pollination, Arboretum, Los Angeles, CA
Day Job, Andrews Gallery, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Collaborative Fusion 9/11, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Medical Contraptions and Conceptions, 31 Grand St. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
9th BWAC Pier Show, Brooklyn, NY
National, curator Susan Cross, Guggenheim, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
Small Works show, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
Cross Pollination, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
24th Annual Small Works. Curator Peter Blum, 80 Washington Sq. E. Galleries, New York, NY
2000 Industrious Subconscious, State of Art Gallery; Brooklyn, NY
8th BWAC Pier Show, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Lost and Found, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
7th BWAC Pier Show, Brooklyn,NYU
1996 Coney Island -Photography, Chasse Theater, Breda, The Netherlands
Liars and Hypocrites, Jacklight Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Extremely refrigerated, MEAT -Photography Installation, Meat Market freezer, New York, NY
1994 World's Women Online! Curator Muriel Magenta, Arizona State University
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GRANTS AND AWARDS
2021 Individual Artist Commission, NYSCA Decentralization Grant Program administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts: FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund
Marjorie Curit Award for Contemporary and Non-Traditional work. Providence Art Club, Rhode Island
2016 Commission for Public Sculpture, funded by Hudson River Foundation Grant, for the Village of Wappingers Falls,NY
2007 Vermont Studio Center; residency (11/07) Vermont
2005 Best in Show award: SOLO show, Jacklight Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Vermont Studio Center; residency (4/99) Vermont
1992 Golden Flame: 1st Prize in Dutch National Video Award for up and coming talent. Short productions. The Netherlands
1989 Eddie Adams Workshop, 4 day photography workshop, Jeffersonville,NY
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ART FAIRS
2025 100 Women of Spirit, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2020 OMG Art Fair, Represented by The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2014 Huntenkunst 2014, Doetinchem, The Netherlands
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SELECTED PRESS
2025 Hyperallergic: Fall 2025 Art Fair Guide: Salon Zürcher
The Observer: September art fair calendar must visit
Two Coats of Paint: Hudson Valley selected gallery guide September 2025
Chronogram; Axons by Marieken Cochius at Garrison Art Center
Highlands Current: Sharon Rubinstein: Companion Pieces "Lyrical and Explosive"
2023 NOS Journaal Regio 7/9/2023 :Laatste segment, The Netherlands
RTV Oost: Harro Brouwer: Kunstwerken voor Expositie zoekgeraakt door Orkaan The Netherlands
De Stentor: 7/9/23 Sandra Veltmaat: Kunstwerken voor Expositie blijven steken in Orkaanchaos Florida The Netherlands
Algemeen Dagblad 7/9/2023: Sandra Veltmaat: Kunstwerken voor Expositie blijven steken in Orkaanchaos The Netherlands
Southern Dutchess News: Kristine Coulter: Wappingers Falls Art Banner Project
2022 Upstate House: winter 2022: Mary Angeles Armstrong: Kingston Design Showhouse
Chronogram: The Kingston Design Showhouse Design Synergy
SUNY Ulster Voices: Dina Pearlman: Guiding the Currents
The Miscellany News, Vassar College: Ganesh Pillai: Palmer Exhibit provides a fascinating look at life
2021 Elle Decor: Charles Curkin: Inside the Inspiring Kingston Design Showhouse 2021
AD Pro: Mel Studach: See Every Room inside the Kingston Design Showhouse 2021
House Beautiful: Hadley Keller: How the Kingston Design Connection is helping solve...
Brownstoner: Susan de Vries: Creatives Unveil their Vision of Home at the Annual Kingston..
Chronogram Magazine: Carl van Brunt: One Thing Leads to Another
Broadwayworld.com Guillermo Laporta presents Luciform
2020 Chronogram Magazine: Terra/Derma Show
Poughkeepsie Journal, Linda Marston-Reid: Look Back In Wonder
Highlands Current, Alison Rooney: The Artist Next Door. Marieken Cochius
2019 Vasari 21, Ann Landi Newsletter: Daughter of the Rising Tide
Poughkeepsie Journal Linda Marston-Reid: Artists open doors to public at Beacon Open Studios
2018 Saatchi Art, Curated by Katherine Henning: Meet the New Masters of Abstract Painting
2017 Vasari 21, Ann Landi: What is Drawing, part two
NotRandomArt Contemporary Art Review magazine p188-195 The Art of Marieken Cochius
2016 New York Times: Listing and photo of 'Invisible Nature' at Matteawan Gallery.
Arts Alive : Dakota Kim: Mircocosm invokes Nature's Abstract Beauty and Chaos. page 10.
Vasari 21, Ann Landi: The Aha-moment, part two
Highland Current: Making art with two hands
2015 Arts Alive May/June : Photos of work and article about upcoming Microcosm show
2014 New York Times 8/17/14 Listings: ‘Microcosms’ show at Lofts at Beacon Gallery.
2001 NY Arts Magazine September Vol.6 no.9 Listing of show p.69/70 :Medical Contraptions and Conceptions
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025 Artwork Archive, featured Artist : Energetic Worlds from Raw Metal
Highlands Current: 08/15/2025: Marc Ferris: Fun With A Blowtorch
2024 Mid Hudson Times 10/03/2024 The Arts are alive in Newburgh
Shoutout Miami: Meet Marieken Cochius, Visual Artist creating Abstract Organic Art
2023 The Closed Eye Open: Issue IX Frequency 45, P 55
Shoutout Miami: Meet Marieken Cochius. Artist and Professional Organizer
2022 Landing Zone: The Burnings
2021 Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library: 'So It Goes' Literary Journal 2021 no.10. K.V. and the Environment
Wordpeace Literary Journal: 6-2 Summer/Fall 2021. Drawing Friction #8
Hammond Museum: Essay by Frank Matheis: The Enigmatic Essence of Marieken Cochius
Awakened Voices Literary Magazine: Interview by Megan Otto with Marieken Cochius
Orenda Arts Journal: Winter 2021
2020 Nunum: Canadian Literary Journal Winter 2020
Columbia Journal: Columbia University, NY: Special issue on Uprising
Verandah: 35 eBook. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. P. 60
High Shelf Press: XXIII. 8 drawings featured
Pulp Mag: Fall 2020 Issue 22 KPU, BC, Canada "Vocals"drawing featured
Rachel TonThat Impermanent Earth
Tint Journal: Fall 2020 Call Into Question
ANTE mag Featured Artist Virtual Studio Visits Pt ii. IGTV interview by Audra Lambert
Hole In the Head Review Issue 3 08/01/2020 Marieken Cochius
Toho Journal Online Summer 2020 Painting End Zone, Flight featured
Impermanent Earth, summer 2020 Elements of a Motherboard
Oscilloscope Literary Magazine Issue 1 Painting Spread and interview featured.
The Closed Eye Open Issue 1, page 17-20 Space Unwound and 3 Solar Etches featured.
Camas Magazine Summer 2020 Collage Element#7 featured.
Superstition Review ASU: Elements of the Motherboard
Quarantine Zine by Shari Diamond. Under the Tree of Life. Night
Tule Review 2020 Sacramento Poetry Center. Page 30, Sculpture 'Gathering' featured.
Art for a New Earth. 3 Element Collages featured.
Cold Mountain Review Appalachian State University: 8 Cloud drawings
2019 Mud Season Review issue 47 Sky
Miracle Monocle University of Louisville, issue 13. A Space Once Occupied, Now Empty
Tiny Seed Literary Journal Thinking out Loud
Willard and Maple Literary and Fine Art Magazine. Champlain College, VT: Wrap around COVER ART
The Esthetic Apostle September issue A Space Once Occupied
The Raw Art Review Spring 2019 page 119. Water series
Sun Spot Literary Journal Volume 1 issue #: Invisible Nature COVER ART
2018 Alluvian Environmental Journal Spring 2018 But I thought..
Fredricksburg Literary and Art Review Organic sculptures, pages 264-265-266
2016 The Mobile Mill, artist Jillian Bruschera. Simple human gestures go a long way​
2009 Fifth Estate Magazine # 380: Featured Artist
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CD COVERS
2022: Tony Malaby: The Cave of Winds
2015: Jorrit Dijkstra: Never Odd or Even
2014: Jorrit Dijkstra: Music for Reeds and Electronics: Oakland
1996: The Dictators: I Am Right / Loyola
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