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12 Facts About Raven Chacon

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Raven Chacon was born on 1977 and is a Dine composer, musician and artist.

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Raven Chacon has been a solo performer of noise music and worked with groups such as Postcommodity.

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Raven Chacon was born in 1977 in Fort Defiance, Arizona, US within the Navajo Nation.

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Raven Chacon attended the University of New Mexico, where he obtained his BA in Fine Arts in 2001, then received an MFA in music composition from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004.

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Raven Chacon was a student of James Tenney, Morton Subotnick, Michael Pisaro, Wadada Leo Smith and Christopher Shultis.

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Raven Chacon serves as Composer-in-Residence with the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project.

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In 2018, Raven Chacon was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin.

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In 2022, Raven Chacon became the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, which he received for his composition Voiceless Mass.

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Raven Chacon was a member of the Native American art collective, Postcommodity, with whom he has developed multimedia installations which have been exhibited internationally.

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In 2017, as part of Postcommodity, Raven Chacon created the multimedia project,.

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Raven Chacon has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Music, an American Academy in Berlin Prize, a Creative Capital award, a United States Artists fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship, a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, among others.

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Raven Chacon received the inaugural Mellon Foundation Artist-in-Residence fellowship for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.