diff --git a/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/DenseUnionArray.cs b/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/DenseUnionArray.cs
index 1aacbe11f08b9..b6b61c560e482 100644
--- a/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/DenseUnionArray.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/DenseUnionArray.cs
@@ -48,5 +48,10 @@ public DenseUnionArray(ArrayData data)
             ValidateMode(UnionMode.Dense, Type.Mode);
             data.EnsureBufferCount(2);
         }
+
+        protected override bool FieldIsValid(IArrowArray fieldArray, int index)
+        {
+            return fieldArray.IsValid(ValueOffsets[index]);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/SparseUnionArray.cs b/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/SparseUnionArray.cs
index b79c44c979e47..07d36e25cfc23 100644
--- a/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/SparseUnionArray.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/SparseUnionArray.cs
@@ -42,5 +42,10 @@ public SparseUnionArray(ArrayData data)
             ValidateMode(UnionMode.Sparse, Type.Mode);
             data.EnsureBufferCount(1);
         }
+
+        protected override bool FieldIsValid(IArrowArray fieldArray, int index)
+        {
+            return fieldArray.IsValid(index);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/UnionArray.cs b/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/UnionArray.cs
index 0a7ae288fd0c5..5fcb276655162 100644
--- a/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/UnionArray.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/Apache.Arrow/Arrays/UnionArray.cs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public abstract class UnionArray : IArrowArray
 
         public int NullCount => Data.NullCount;
 
-        public bool IsValid(int index) => NullCount == 0 || Fields[TypeIds[index]].IsValid(index);
+        public bool IsValid(int index) => NullCount == 0 || FieldIsValid(Fields[TypeIds[index]], index);
 
         public bool IsNull(int index) => !IsValid(index);
 
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ public static UnionArray Create(ArrayData data)
 
         public void Accept(IArrowArrayVisitor visitor) => Array.Accept(this, visitor);
 
+        protected abstract bool FieldIsValid(IArrowArray field, int index);
+
         public void Dispose()
         {
             Dispose(true);
diff --git a/csharp/test/Apache.Arrow.Tests/UnionArrayTests.cs b/csharp/test/Apache.Arrow.Tests/UnionArrayTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1fb5cf2415c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csharp/test/Apache.Arrow.Tests/UnionArrayTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+// contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+// this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+// The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+// (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+// the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+using System.Linq;
+using Apache.Arrow.Types;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Apache.Arrow.Tests;
+
+public class UnionArrayTests
+{
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData(UnionMode.Sparse)]
+    [InlineData(UnionMode.Dense)]
+    public void UnionArray_IsNull(UnionMode mode)
+    {
+        var fields = new Field[]
+        {
+            new Field("field0", new Int32Type(), true),
+            new Field("field1", new FloatType(), true),
+        };
+        var typeIds = fields.Select(f => (int) f.DataType.TypeId).ToArray();
+        var type = new UnionType(fields, typeIds, mode);
+
+        const int length = 100;
+        var nullCount = 0;
+        var field0Builder = new Int32Array.Builder();
+        var field1Builder = new FloatArray.Builder();
+        var typeIdsBuilder = new ArrowBuffer.Builder<byte>();
+        var valuesOffsetBuilder = new ArrowBuffer.Builder<int>();
+        var expectedNull = new bool[length];
+
+        for (var i = 0; i < length; ++i)
+        {
+            var isNull = i % 5 == 0;
+            expectedNull[i] = isNull;
+            nullCount += isNull ? 1 : 0;
+
+            if (i % 2 == 0)
+            {
+                typeIdsBuilder.Append(0);
+                if (mode == UnionMode.Sparse)
+                {
+                    field1Builder.Append(0.0f);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    valuesOffsetBuilder.Append(field0Builder.Length);
+                }
+
+                if (isNull)
+                {
+                    field0Builder.AppendNull();
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    field0Builder.Append(i);
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                typeIdsBuilder.Append(1);
+                if (mode == UnionMode.Sparse)
+                {
+                    field0Builder.Append(0);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    valuesOffsetBuilder.Append(field1Builder.Length);
+                }
+
+                if (isNull)
+                {
+                    field1Builder.AppendNull();
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    field1Builder.Append(i * 0.1f);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        var typeIdsBuffer = typeIdsBuilder.Build();
+        var valuesOffsetBuffer = valuesOffsetBuilder.Build();
+        var children = new IArrowArray[]
+        {
+            field0Builder.Build(),
+            field1Builder.Build()
+        };
+
+        UnionArray array = mode == UnionMode.Dense
+            ? new DenseUnionArray(type, length, children, typeIdsBuffer, valuesOffsetBuffer, nullCount)
+            : new SparseUnionArray(type, length, children, typeIdsBuffer, nullCount);
+
+        for (var i = 0; i < length; ++i)
+        {
+            Assert.Equal(expectedNull[i], array.IsNull(i));
+            Assert.Equal(!expectedNull[i], array.IsValid(i));
+        }
+    }
+}