Raven Chacon's Performances at the Park Avenue Armory

In a recent interview with Hyperallergic, Highpoint Editions Artist, Raven Chacon details his recent performances at the Park Avenue Armory, the freedom of improvisation, and the privilege of “deep listening.” Chacon’s score-based creations encourage collaboration among performers and audiences and incorporate found sounds, such as rifles, foghorns, whistles, and coins with natural elements.

Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and visual artist Raven Chacon performs in the Veterans Room as part of Park Avenue Armory’s 2026 Artists Studio series on Wednesday, October 7. (all photos Da Ping Luo, courtesy Park Avenue Armory)

He presented two nights in the Veterans Room of fully improvised sets using a variety of acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments, some homemade. These improvised compositions ranged from sparse, minimalistic soundscapes to complex, multi-layered works that incorporated voices, noise, and found sounds.

Learn more from a recent interview here!

Raven Chacon in Hold to this Earth

Highpoint Editions Artist, Raven Chacon will be a part of an upcoming group exhibition titled, Hold to this Earth. This show will feature sixty-five works by thirty-eight artists, including two significant new commissions, making it a landmark exhibition of contemporary Indigenous North American art on a scale never seen before in the UK. Hold to this Earth features sculpture, film, photography, painting, ceramics and fibre art highlighting the broad spectrum of work being produced by Indigenous North American artists today.

Film still from Raven Chacon: Three Songs installation piece.

Representing over 35 different Tribal Nations and multiple generations, the exhibition highlights both established voices and emerging artists who are shaping contemporary art today. They reference and honour ancestral knowledge whilst being steadfastly contemporary, asserting a powerful presence and countering narratives of erasure that too often position Indigenous cultures only in terms of the past. Materials such as clay, hide, wool, beads and natural pigments become carriers of powerful stories, memory and tradition, rooted in connection to the earth. Newer modes of expression and understanding growing out of digital culture also speak to the shifting landscapes of Indigenous life in the 21st century.

On view June 13th, 2026  through Apr 18th, 2027 at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, U.K Learn more here!

Raven Chacon Solo Exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins

Raven Chacon, Storm Pattern, 2021/24. Handwoven woolen textile, sound. Textile: 70 x×128 ½ inches. Audio: Variable length, looped. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York.

Highpoint Editions Artist, Raven Chacon’s solo exhibition, Scores for Coming Storms is now on view until June 20th, 2026! This show is “a layered installation of sonic and visual works that encompasses both Euro-American and Navajo worldviews,” and “is made up of a large graphite wall drawing, framed ink drawings, a sound installation, and a wall textile. As a succinct reprise and recontextualization of earlier work, it allows gallery-goers to see and listen to the breadth of this artist’s multivalent vision.” Below is a brief walkthrough of the show from Art as Form Tours!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzlKY6L1w2o 

Installation view: Raven Chacon: Scores for Coming Storms, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York, 2026. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York.

On view at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY from May 14–June 20, 2026 Learn more here!

Raven Chacon in An Indigenous Present

Highpoint Editions Artist, Raven Chacon is featured in a new exhibition titled An Indigenous Present. This exhibit spans 100 years of modern and contemporary Indigenous work and “includes new commissions and significant works by 15 artists who use strategies of abstraction to represent personal and collective narratives, describe specific and imagined places, and build upon cultural and aesthetic traditions. Co-organized by artist Jeffrey Gibson and independent curator Jenelle Porter, the exhibition offers an expansive consideration of Indigenous art practices that highlights a continuum of elders and emerging makers, and premieres newly commissioned site-specific works by Raven Chacon, Caroline Monnet, and Anna Tsouhlarakis.” This show is organized into five interconnected thematic sections that begin with a focus on the work of George Morrison and Mary Sully, two important forebears in the development of contemporary Indigenous art during the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition will begin it’s tour in Boston, and will then be shown at the Frist Art Museum before making it’s way to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, come November, 2026.

Raven Chacon, American Ledger No. 1 (Army Blanket) (detail), 2020, score for performance, unique army blanket, digital print, 59 × 79".

An Indigenous Present debuts at the ICA (Oct 9, 2025 – Mar 8, 2026) before traveling to the Frist Art Museum in Nashville (June 26—September 27, 2026) and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle (November 7, 2026—February 14, 2027)

Learn more about the exhibition here.