Rakhee Jain Desai (b. Mississauga, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist working in textile/fiber, painting, sculpture and installation. Rakhee's South Asian identity informs both her subject matter and techniques with a particular focus on immigrant identity, belonging and place.

Her current body of work utilises the centuries-old, wax-resist textile technique, Batik. The combination of Batik, an Eastern craft, with traditionally Western mediums (encaustic, oils and acrylics) is a signature process that aptly communicates her South Asian American identity.

Born in Canada, raised in Houston, Texas and having lived in Asia for a decade, Rakhee’s Indian heritage and global lens are evident through her choice of palette and use of symbolism.

Rakhee has exhibited in the USA, Singapore and Portugal. She was selected as a featured artist for the Imago Mundi Benetton Foundation - representing Singapore’s contemporary art in the 21st Century & Beyond. She was the first cohort recipient of the Tempo2D program by the City of Austin Art in Public Places. The Batik mural named ‘A Place To Call Home’ is now on permanent view at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Rakhee has been collected by Astra International and the Stanford Lucille Packard Children's Hospital.