Rozana Lee is a multidisciplinary artist of Indonesian-Chinese heritage based in Auckland, New Zealand. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland. Her research centres on ideas of place, migration, belonging, post-colonial identity and cross-cultural mobility. Lee has exhibited widely in 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. 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). Lee’s artist residency at Redbase Foundation, Yogyakarta, is supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

During her residency at Redbase Foundation, Lee will explore the emotional ties we form with landscapes, everyday environments, communities, and cultural practices—elements that not only shape our identities but also reflect broader national and geopolitical contexts. She intends to create an installation that draws on the textures of memory and place—weaving together materials, video, and cultural symbols that evoke fragments of a once-familiar world.