London
Melanie Lenz is curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she is responsible for developing the V&A’s digital art collections. She has organised multiple exhibitions, most recently co-curating Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary (2023-2024). She co-edited the book Digital Art: 1960 to Now (2024) and has published on diverse topics including generative art (2024), early computer art in Latin America (2018), gender, art and technology (2014), collecting and conserving digital art (2011).
Melanie has led on a broad range of public programmes including developing a digital art season, convened conferences on art, design and new technologies for health, and has initiated art partnerships with a variety of organisations including Women Who Code and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Based in London, Melanie also works as a freelance curator. She is a judge for the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology and a panel expert for the National Archives.