Raven Chacon is a Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Kennedy Center, and the Whitney Museum, among others. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Raven Chacon, Three Songs, 2021. Sung by Sage Bond (Diné), Jehnean Washington (Yuchi), and Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole). Courtesy of Raven Chacon.

Raven Chacon, Three Songs (detail), 2021. Sung by Sage Bond (Diné), Jehnean Washington (Yuchi), and Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole). Courtesy of Raven Chacon.

Raven Chacon, For Carmina Escobar (For Zitkála-Šá), 2017–2020. Credit: Raven Chacon and Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts.

Raven Chacon, Silent Choir (Standing Rock), 2017-2022. Courtesy of Raven Chacon.
Banner: Raven Chacon, Three Songs (detail), 2021. Sung by Sage Bond (Diné), Jehnean Washington (Yuchi), and Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole). Courtesy of Raven Chacon.