People

Gavilán Rayna Russom
2024-25
Current Honorable Mention Mentor

Gavilán Rayna Russom is a visionary artist, composer, scholar, and curator based in New York City whose work provides alternatives to binary thought and fixed modes of categorization. In addition to an extensive discography of recorded music, she has presented solo and collaborative works in performance, video, and installation at a range of international institutions. Rayna is the founding director of Voluminous Arts, a cultural organization whose mission is to foreground, nurture, and advance the experimental artistic culture of transgender people and communities.