Elena Asins Rodríguez (Madrid, 2 March 1940 – Azpirotz, Navarra, 14 December 2015) was a prominent visual artist, writer, lecturer and critic.

[1] Asins' artistic research was initially linked to the experimental circles that emerged in Spain during the final decades of the Francoist dictatorship.

In these institutions, she studied the theoretic computational aesthetic of Max Bense, the linguistic theories of Noam Chomsky, the music of Mozart and mystical texts from the Old and New Testament to Wittgenstein's philosophy

[3] In 2011, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid presented the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist entitled Elena Asins: Fragmentos de la memoria.

[6] Work in other public collections include the Spanish Institute in New York, Kulturboherde (Hamburg), Institut Valencia d'Art Modern – IVAM (Valencia),[7] Museo de Bellas Artes de Alava (Vitoria), Fundacion March (Madrid), Archivo Lafuente (Santander), Fundacion Chirivella Soriano, (Valencia), Collection Leonora and Jimmy Belilty (Caracas, Venezuela), Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, CIFO (Miami, FL)[8] and The Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg Collection (USA) among many others.