CHELLA MAN

EDUCATION

2017-TBD Parsons School of Design, BFA in Virtual Reality

2017 Cumberland Valley High School

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND GROUP SHOWS

2021 First Impressions, Anonymous Gallery

2021 Virtual Censorship Performance, Eyebeam

2020 TransAtlantico, Mana Contemporary Gallery

2020 Trans Disabled Black Lives Matter, NYC Pride Window Mural

2019 Dysphoria, CNN World Pride Installation

2018 Golden Hour Series, Compound Gallery Group Show

2018 Not Your Typical Solo show, Space 776

PRESS COVERAGE

2021 Interviewed on the Tamron Hall Show

2021 Vogue features his film “The Beauty of Being Deaf”

2021 Paper Magazine covers his jewelry design collaboration with Private Policy

2020 Covered Out Magazine alongside Laverne Cox

2020 Fronted Calvin Klein’s Summer Campaign

2020 Yahoo Interview series “21-year-old deaf activist explains the ongoing fight for disability rights”

2019 Cover and Interview with Mission Magazine

2019 Interviewed with TimeOut

2019 Feature with L’Officiel Art

2019 Cover and Interview Gay Times Magazine’s 500th Issue

2019 Cover and Interview with The Advocate

2018 Signs with IMG as first Deaf, trans model

LECTURES AND TALKS

2021 Talk with Judith Heumann on disability advocacy

2021 The Savannah College of Art and Design talk with Tyler Oakley

2021 University of Oregon Speaker

2021 University of Georgia Speaker

2020 Penn State’s Keynote Speaker

2020 NorthEastern University Speaker 2019 Speaker at Florida State University 2019 Inclusivity

and Accessibility Panel at Twitter NYC HQ

2019 Speaker at BBYO, Colorado Springs

2019 Speaker at Colorado College

2018 Speaker at Brooklyn Museum

2018 TedX Talk

PUBLICATIONS

2021 Published Author “Continuum”

2018-2017 Columnist at Conde Nast’s First Queer Publication - Them

ACTING

2021 Chesnut Film

2020 ‘Frankenstein’ in the National Theater of the Deaf’s

2019 ‘Jericho’ in DC Universe’s Titans Season II

COLLABORATIONS

2021 Designer of Ear Jewelry Piece with Private Policy, The Beauty of Being Deaf

2020 Executive Producer of “Trans in Trumpland”

2020 Private Policy Jewelry Collaboration

2020 Judge of Instagram’s Portraiture Art Competition

2020 Collaborations with Adobe Creative Cloud

2019-2021 Design Collection with Inkbox Tattoos

2019 Designed and Personalized a Clothing Line for Opening Ceremony

HONORS AND AWARDS

2021 The Beauty of Being Deaf, selected as a Nowness Pick

2021 Invited to the White House for the 31st anniversary of the ADA

2021 Mentor at Silver Arts Residency in the World Trade Center

2020 Judge of Shorty Awards

2019 Shorty Awards - LGBTQ+ Account

2019 Top Ten of Dazed100

2019 Pride50 Award

2019 Queerty Award

2018 Out100

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2023 Hermitage Residency, Florida

2021 Mentor at Silver Art Projects in the World Trade Center

2020 Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy