Rashmi Sathe is an artist, designer, researcher, and academician based in Mumbai, India. Her practice explores non-visual ways of experiencing art and design, often moving across disciplines to create inclusive and experimental forms of expression. She works with themes of translocality, mythology, food, and artificial intelligence and evolving archives, weaving them into her artistic and design projects.
Atlas Skill Tech University | 2022- current
Visiting Faculty Visual communication in design, Fashion Drawing,
Design Research and Design Studio.
Ecole Intuit Lab | 2021
Visiting Faculty Human Sciences.
Pearl Academy Mumbai | 2014- 2019
Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Fashion Design and Luxury Management.
ITM Institute of Design and Media | 2010- 2019
Assistant Professor for Fashion Illustration and design
Adjunct Faculty: J.D institute of fashion design | 2009- 2010
External examiner: Symbiosis institute of Design | 2014- 2016
Chief Creative Officer : Rutu Bhonsle 2016- 2023 (women’s wear) Represented the design label at international platforms including New York Fashion Week SS/17, SS/18, SS/19 and Columbia Fashion Week SS/17.
Design Head : BJAZZY Clothing (Men’s wear) |2014- 2018
Senior Fashion Designer : Agasti | 2007- 2014
Fashion illustrator and Assistant Designer : Neeta Lulla | 2006-2007
Fashion Internship : Jai Ramrakhiani | 2006 Part of the 'Taj research project in Varanasi' - A project for therevival for handloom industry in Varanasi.
PhD researcher
University of Art and Design Linz (Dept: Visual communication)
Austria| 2023 - present
Master’s of Arts in Fine Arts ( Image Practices)
HSLU Switzerland | 2019 - 2021
B.hsc in Fashion Apparel Design
SNDT University | 2004 - 2006
Being White: Solo Inclusive multisensorial exhibitGallery WHA Linz - Funded by the Rectorate at the
Kunst University Linz I 2025
Performance “Being White”- Ort Performance Space
Lucerne | 2025
Costume Design and Creative AssistanceJAM Performance MoMA/ Kaylynn Two Trees Sullivan
New York | 2022
Act Performance Festival Switzerland | 2020 - 2021
Curation and showcase of the performance art event
“Between Flux and Perseverance"
Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland| 2020
Online Performance “All You Can Eat”
Art festival OPAF 17 edition | 2020
Artist exchange Berufsbildungszentrum Bau und
Gewerbe Luzern (BBZW) | 2021- current
Lunchtime Lecture series “The Sound of my identity and consuming Mumbai”
University of Art and Design Linz (moderated by Anna Artaker) | March 2024
Presented the concept of “Third Spaces”
at the conference “Third Spaces Start Camp Geneva” | 2019
Research Assistant “Translocal Art Mediation”
India and Switzerland (HSLU Switzerland) | 2019- 2020