Rachel Rinker (b. 1994) is a painter and musician currently based in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally from Goose Creek, South Carolina, Rinker earned her BFA in Painting from Clemson University in 2016 and her MFA in Painting + Drawing from Arizona State University in 2026. She has been playing the flute for over 20 years, and is currently part of the Desert Echoes Flute (DEF) Project Flute Choir in Mesa, AZ. Rinker uses abstraction as a way to relate emotional energy and sensory experiences into visual and sonic forms. She is interested in human perception and the evolution of our conscious minds as they relate architecturally to external environments and relationships. Rest balances rhythmic, painterly expressions and the unfurling of environments with layered personal history of place and human connections; reflecting life as it is experienced in a nonlinear fashion - like ever growing scrapbooks and run-on sentences of present (un)conscious moments - cyclical and always subject to change.​