Chella Man
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Chella Man is an internationally acclaimed artist who identifies Deaf, trans-masculine, Jewish, and Chinese. As a multi-hyphenate, his work is not limited to one medium. Expanding into painting, film, sculpture and performance art, Man explores the continuum of identity and deconstructs binaries surrounding disability, gender, race, and morality. He is a curator and artist of Pure Joy: showing at 1969 Gallery (2022), author of Continuum (2021 ), the director, producer, and editor of the award winning film The Beauty of Being Deaf (2021 ), executive producer of Trans in Trumpland (2021 ), designer of Opening Ceremony (2019), casted as Jericho in DC Universe's Titans (2019), and former columnist for Them of Conde Naste (2018). Man continues to educate and give talks internationally on the intersections of art, disability, queerness, race, and healing.