Lena Chen (born August 13, 1987) is an American feminist artist, writer, and activist based in Berlin and Los Angeles.

Her first-person accounts of sexual experiences, depression, and undergraduate life at one of America's premier academic institutions spurred campus discussion, prompted media attention, and garnered a following.

[1][2] Quickly becoming a controversial figure, she was criticized by some as morally reprehensible[3] and praised by others for encouraging frank sexual dialogue.

[8] In 2017, she revealed that she had been living in Berlin under an alternate identity ("Elle Peril") as part of a durational performance.

In the aftermath of revenge porn, she posed nude for artists in order to reclaim agency over her body[9] and presented documentation of her life as Elle Peril in a solo exhibition at S0MA Gallery.