Melanie Keen

Melanie Keen is a curator and consultant. Recent projects include: an education resource, which uses contemporary art and culture to explore the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade, for Understanding Slavery, National Maritime Museum, London; Necessary Journeys, an Arts Council England programme in collaboration with bfi Black World which included artists’ residencies in film archives; commissioning a film score for Borderline; an international symposium in collaboration with Tate Modern; travel bursaries for artists; and an illustrated book.

Other independent projects include A Better Place? (2004) with Erika Tan and Melissa Bliss for Bow Festival; and 48 Hours (1999), Tablet Gallery, London including Jacqueline Donachie, Mary Evans, Ella Gibbs, muf, Tomoko Takahashi and Jessica Voorsanger.

She was Projects Curator at Iniva until 2003 and projects include Simon Tegala's Anabiosis and Yinka Shonibare's Diary of a Victorian Dandy.