stefa marin alarcon is a genderless, genreless vocalist, composer, educator and multi-media performance artist born and raised in Queens, NY to Colombian immigrants. Using an amalgamation of punk, experimental pop and classical minimalism with queer maximalist aesthetics and video collages, 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 Lincoln Center, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museo Del Barrio, The Kitchen, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Ars Nova, National Sawdust, Nublu, 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 acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. They were an Artist-in-Residence at TrueQué Residencia Artística, a Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics EmergeNYC Fellow (2019), Leslie Lohman Museum of Art Artist Fellow (2019-2020), Artist In Residence at The Kitchen (2021) and Artist In Residence at Beloit College (2024). Their experimental ritual performance film, Born With An Extra Rib, won the Queer|Art Prize for Recent Work (2022), Jury Award for Best TransGenre Short/Mid Length, TRANSlations Seattle Film Festival (2023), and QueerCine International Film Festival Best Experimental Film, 2025. Their debut EP Sepalina was released on Figure & Ground Records in 2018. Their multi-media album Born With An Extra Rib was released June 2024. They are a co-organizer of NYC’s first trans music and art festival, TRANSMISSION held yearly at the historic Marsha P. Johnson State Park and founded by the late artist and activist Cecilia Gentili. They are an incoming MFA Art Practice candidate at Stanford University, Fall 2025.

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.