Rajendra Tiku, is an Indian sculptor and art teacher, known for his outdoor stone sculptures. He was honoured by the Government of India, in 2013, by bestowing on him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the field of art. He was born in 1953 in Wadwan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Tiku graduated from Kashmir University with science and then law. Simultaneously, he studied sculpture from the Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Srinagar and completed his course in 1978. Tiku works with wood and stone, some of it bearing associations with architectural elements. His work is metaphoric using coloured threads and inscribing graffiti on wood or stone. He likes to generate the ambiance of scared around his sculpture. Clever use of cracks and breaks in the block of stone creates an aura of a relic form the past. A sense of history breathes another dimension to the roughly carved sculpture.

Rajendra Tiku has received both the junior (1993–95) and senior (1997–98) fellowships of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the Government of India. He is also a recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York for commissioning sculptures at various parts in India, one of which can be found on the lawns of the Danwantri Library of the University of Jammu. Tiku has been invited to many sculpture workshops in places like USA, Switzerland, Israel, Russia, Egypt, Russia and Thailand.