stefa marin alarcon

stefa marin alarcon is a trans non-binary vocalist, composer, educator, and multimedia performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY to Colombian immigrants. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental rage pop, and classical minimalism with maximalist aesthetics, stefa builds worlds that offer a somatic decolonial respite for the misfits, the displaced, and future generations of Brown and Indigenous radical artists of the diaspora. Their artistic practice explores concepts of home, identity, gender, borders, erased ancestry, and radical trans, queer & Native futures through music, theater, ritual performance, and video. stefa has shared their work, spirit, and song with Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, The Kitchen, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, BAAD!, NUEVOFest, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, Tulsa Artist Residency, Cine Las Americas, The Vienna Festival, Body Hack, Fierce Futures and more. They studied euro-centric classical voice at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and concentrated in drama at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. They were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, Slippage Residency at Duke University in collaboration with Mx Oops, as well as a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow, and Artist In Residence at The Kitchen NYC. Their debut EP Sepalina was released on Figure & Ground Records in 2018 and their experimental ritual film Born With An Extra Rib won the 2022 Queer|Art| Recent Work Prize.

  • Access. Movement. Play. (A.M.P.) Residency Program
  • 2023 A.M.P. Residency Artists
  • 2023 Fall AMP Artist in Residence
stefa marin alarcon gazes toward the camera with intent softness as a pool of warm orange and red light illuminates their left eye and dissipates across their face. Their nose pierced with a safety pin and a septum ring while the shadow of their ear discloses a small round earring. They are lit from behind with a small blue light deep in the image’s background, most of their head and collar left in dark silhouette. Photo courtesy of the artist.
ID: stefa marin alarcon gazes toward the camera with intent softness as a pool of warm orange and red light illuminates their left eye and dissipates across their face. Their nose pierced with a safety pin and a septum ring while the shadow of their ear discloses a small round earring. They are lit from behind with a small blue light deep in the image’s background, most of their head and collar left in dark silhouette. Photo courtesy of the artist.