Melanie Lenz

(V&A Museum, 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 collection. She has organised multiple exhibitions and is currently working on a display about Vera Molnar and generative art. She has co-edited several books, including the forthcoming title Emergence: Art and Generative Systems and Digital Art: 1960 to Now (2024). She has published on diverse topics, including generative art (2024), early computer art in Latin America (2018), gender, art and technology (2014), and collecting and conserving digital art (2011).

Melanie has led a broad range of public programmes, including developing the V&A’s Digital Art Season, convening conferences on art, design and new technologies for health, and initiating art partnerships with organisations including Women Who Code and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Based in London, she sat on the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award Jury and is a panel expert for the National Archives.