Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon is an award-winning composer, performer, and installation artist who was born at Fort Defiance on the Navajo Nation. In 2022, he became the first Indigenous artist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, and staged his works at numerous museums, festivals, and biennales worldwide. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009 to 2018, he co-created artworks presented at documenta 14 and the Carnegie International, as well as the two-mile-long land art installation Repellent Fence at the US/Mexico border. Chacon has been active as a musician for twenty-four years and has contributed to more than eighty releases on various national and international labels. Since 2004, as part of the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP), he has mentored over 300 young Native American composers in high schools as they compose new string quartets.