December 13, 2011 6:00PM - At the New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Hai Zhang is to present his new research on Three Gorges Dam in the event of Water, Culture and Climate Change hosted by the India China Institute and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons. The featured scholars also include Barbara Rose Johnston and Anne Rademacher. >>Click here for more information
November & December 2011- Hai Zhang is conducting a photography workshop - Narrative Photography in the Queens Museum of Art, New York. The workshop is part of QMA's New New Yorker program.
October 29, 2011 2:00PM-4:00PM - As part of special programming looking at photography as a tool for urban research, in connection with the current exhibition Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore in the Queens Museum of Art, New York, the museum invited Hai Zhang to do a walk-through of the exhibit, followed by a presentation of his own work of China taken in the past three years. . >>Click here for more information
Sept 16 to Sept 25, 2011- Photographs from Hai Zhang's To Kill A Mockingbird series are selected in John A. Bennette's "Southern Memories: Part Two" exhibition at historic Whiskey Bonding Barn in Molena, Georgia. The exhibition is part of the Slow Exposures Photography Festival held annually in Georgia since 2003. >>Click here for more information
August 20, 2011 - At the Ullens Centers for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Hai Zhang is to present series of his photographs taken in the US, Costa Rica and China in the past few years. The title of the lecture is: Journey about Others. >>Click here for more information
October 27, 2010 - At Parsons The New School University, Hai Zhang presented award-winning photographs, short films, and voices of Chinese residents, government officials, real estate developers, designers, and scholars from his research of urabnization in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Zha Jianying, acclaimed writer and Guggenheim Fellow, was the moderator. Brian McGrath, Chair of Urban Design in School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, and Robert Pledge, President of Contact Press Images, joined in the discussion panel.
Sept 28 to Oct 21, 2010 - Photographs from Hai Zhang's Awaiting the Rain series are selected in VALOARTE exhibition at historic la Antigua Aduana (Former National Customs House) in San Jose, Costa Rica. The exhibition includes the artists from Latin America, Spain and the US, and the artists who are working on the theme of these areas. Mr. Elvis Fuentes, the curator of El Museo del Barrio in New York is one of the jurist with Gabriela Saenz Shelby (Costa Rica) and Carmen Aleman Healy (Panama) for 2010 VALOARTE edition. VALOARTE has been held annually in various historic sites in San Jose, Costa Rica since 2003.
Sept 17 to Sept 26, 2010 - Photographs from Hai Zhang's To Kill A Mockingbird series are selected in John A. Bennette's "Southern Memories: Part One" exhibition at historic Whiskey Bonding Barn in Molena, Georgia. The exhibition is part of the Slow Exposures Photography Festival held annually in Georgia since 2003.
August 24, 2010 - 2010 International Photography Awards announces winners of the competition. Hai Zhang was awarded an Honorable Mention in Professional Editorial - Photo Essay category for the winning entry "Under the Glory of Shanghai 2010 Expo". The 2010 International Photography Awards received nearly 15,000 submissions from 103 countries across the globe. >>Click here for the gallery
June 2010 - Brooklyn Public Library and New York Foundation for the Arts presented Hai Zhang's Moving-out & Living-in at the branches of Brooklyn Public Library,
