Eilen Itzel Mena (1994- ) is a Dominican artist, writer, and community organizer. She works across painting, printmaking, drawing, and installation. Mena uses various colors in an abstract setting to expand and revise what is communicated through our relationships with ourselves, others, the earth, and the universe. She documents a femme Afro-diasporic intersectional experience.  Mena received her BA in Fine Arts with an emphasis on sculpture from the University of Southern California in 2017. She received her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Arts in 2024.