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Raven Chacon

Raven Chacon stands centered in the photograph, cropped from the stomach up. His body angled slightly to the right, the direction in which his eyes are also looking. The backdrop is entirely bright white. Raven wears a short-sleeved button down, his long, wavy, salt-and-pepper hair just beyond his shoulders.
© Neal Santos

Raven Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. A recording artist over the span of 22 years, Chacon has appeared on over eighty releases on national and international labels. Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, SITE Santa Fe, The Kennedy Center, and more. His artworks are among the collections of the Whitney, the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum and National Museum of the American Indian, LACMA, and others.