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