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. 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 and Japan. She has also been a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (2024) and a participant of the Zhelezka Project, Central Asia (2023).
We pay our respects to the Gundungurra people who are the traditional custodians of the land. We acknowledge Elders past, present and emerging for their immense spiritual connection to place which was never ceded.