Bemis Alumni ARTalks: Raven Chacon

You're invited to an online conversation with Raven Chacon, Bemis Center’s inaugural Ree Kaneko Alumni Award winner. Chacon will speak about his work and process, and focus on work created for the 2022 Whitney Biennial Quiet As It's Kept, on view from April 6 through September 5, 2022.

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney and The Kennedy Center. Each year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists Fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital Award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.

Image: Raven Chacon. Courtesy of the artist.