Niku Koochak is an Iranian-born, Canada-based interdisciplinary artist and award-winning curator working across performance, installation, painting, and curatorial research. With an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of Windsor and a background in architecture from the University of Tehran, she brings a spatial and process-driven approach to both her artistic and curatorial practice.

Her work explores identity formation, conflict, adaptation and non-places, examining how meaning is produced and transformed through changing social, spatial, and environmental conditions. Koochak creates custom-built drawing tools and tension-based systems, including human-scale slingshots and elastic devices that translate physical resistance, bodily movement, and restricted control into marks. Through these processes, attempts to communicate or reproduce language and images are disrupted and transformed, creating a space between intention and outcome, control and collapse.

As the 2024–25 TD Curatorial Fellow at Art Windsor-Essex, Koochak curated and co-curated exhibitions as part of the Below the 6 series recognized with a 2025 Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries Curatorial Award. Her curatorial practice is grounded in research, collaboration, and sustained dialogue, bringing different lived experiences and ways of knowing into relation through exhibition-making, public programming, and interpretation.

Koochak has exhibited and developed projects in Canada and Iran, with solo presentations at SoCA Gallery, Arts Council Windsor & Region, and Rooberoo Mansion in Tehran. Her recent artistic projects include the Creatives at Work residency and the 2026 New Voices billboard project. Across her artistic and curatorial practices, she approaches exhibitions as spaces of encounter where material, bodies, knowledge, and experience can negotiate with and transform one another.

Koochak currently serves as Gallery Coordinator in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University, while continuing her independent artistic and curatorial practice.