Raven Chacon

Name

Raven Chacon

Bio

Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and
installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist,
collaborator, and a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018,
Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; San
Francisco Electronic Music Festival; REDCAT, Los Angeles; Vancouver Art
Gallery; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Borealis Festival, Seattle;
SITE Santa Fe; Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; Ende Tymes Festival, New
York; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Biennial, New
York; documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; Carnegie International, and
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Since 2004, he has mentored more than three hundred Native high
school composers in writing new string quartets for the Native American
Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). Chacon is the recipient of a
United States Artists Fellowship, a Creative Capital Award, Native Arts
and Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship, the American Academy’s
Berlin Prize, the Bemis Center’s Ree Kaneko Award, and the Pew Center
for Arts & Heritage’s Fellowship-in-Residence.