Rozana Lee is a multidisciplinary artist of Indonesian-Chinese heritage based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland. Her research is centred on the ideas around sense of place, migration, belonging, post-colonial identity and cross-cultural mobility. Working across textile, painting, video and installation, she explores global histories of encounter and exchange that allow for something shared, both within and beyond existing national and geographic boundaries. Lee has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and internationally. A finalist in several New Zealand art awards, she received the People’s Choice Award for the National Contemporary Art Award in 2021 and earned third place in the Estuary Art and Ecology Award in 2022. Lee has undertaken artist residencies in Singapore, China, Japan, and Australia. She has also been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (2024) and a participant of the Zhelezka Project: on the tracks through Central Asia (2023), a project supported by the Volkswagen Foundation that aims to develop conceptual and methodological approaches for creating new knowledge about lesser explored and multicultural places. In 2025, Lee will be undertaking an artist residency at Redbase Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, with support from Asia New Zealand Foundation.