René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez (born in 1957 in Havana) is a Cuban photographer.
His photographs have been in exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain, and the United States (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New York City).
René Peña graduated from the University of Havana with a specialization in English.
He took his first pictures with his family camera at the age of eight years but has never had any formal training.
Although sometimes compared to Robert Mapplethorpe, Peña cites as his influences photographers Eduardo Moñoz Ordoqui and Marta Maria Perez Bravo (both of whom focus on black-and-white photography).