Eilen Itzel Mena (1994- ) is a Dominican artist, writer, and community organizer based in the South Bronx, New York. Mena is currently the Co-Director and creative collaborator for Honey and Smoke, a global artist community and platform that creates space for artists to reflect on important current events.⁠ Her work utilizes repeating shapes, symbols, figures, inversions, and forms, and is slowly building a referential pictorial alphabet.  Semi-representational and abstract images appear in her work in addition to references to West African culture. For Mena, this reaffirms the cultural importance of African diasporic art forms. Mena received her BA in Fine Arts with an emphasis on sculpture from the University of Southern California in 2017. She is currently an MFA candidate in painting at the Slade School of Fine Arts.