Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist born at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.
A recording artist over the span of 24 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on
national and international labels. He has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA,
The Whitney Biennial, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York,
and more. As an educator, Chacon is the senior composer mentor for the Native American
Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP). In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his
composition Voiceless Mass, and in 2023 was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.
