Lia Chang: My portrait of “New York actor Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation into Scar in The Lion King” on view in HHC’s New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2 Photo Exhibition through 7/14

Lia Chang poses in front of her portrait of Thom Sesma's Makeup Transformation as Scar in Disney's The Lion King, at HHC’s New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2 Photo Exhibit opening reception at Bellevue Hospital on June 23, 2011. Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang poses in front of her portrait of Thom Sesma's Makeup Transformation as Scar in Disney's The Lion King, at HHC’s New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2 Photo Exhibit opening reception at Bellevue Hospital on June 23, 2011. Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

My portrait of “New York actor Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation into Scar in The Lion King” is featured in New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition, currently on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011.
New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang

New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang


Celebrating over seventy-five years of having public art in hospitals, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection proudly presents their traveling photographic exhibition, New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2. This exhibition is a modern take on the 1950’s photographic exhibit, Family of Man. The exhibit features a collection of black and white, color, and digital prints that focus on different aspects of iconic imagery; architecture, landscape, culture, and people through-out the five boroughs and snapshots of the NYC experience.
New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang

New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang


The exhibition showcases the work of fifty internationally renowned, New York based photographers, as well as, emerging photographers. Some of the photographers featured in the exhibit are James VanDerZee, Roxanne Lowit, Dawoud Bey, Anthony Barboza, Linda Cummings, Omar Kharem, Chee Wang Ng, Monika Merva, Syd London, Arlene Gottfried, Jose Gutierrez, Jamel Shabazz, Alex Harley, Trang Bui, Nancy Siesel, Bo Zhang, and Mick Rock, among others.
New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang

New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang


This art exhibition, New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, a sequel to the 2008 traveling exhibit, NYC: IN FOCUS, is part of the continuous series of art exhibitions hosted by the HHC Art Collection. These events offer the opportunity for museums, galleries, educators, and the general public to become familiar with the Art Collection, as well an opportunity to showcase established and emerging artists. This is part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation’s philosophy of supporting the community it serves.
http://building.nychhc.org/ArtGallery/.
New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang

New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection Photographic Exhibition on view in the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue in New York through July 14, 2011. Photo by Lia Chang


About HHC: As the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) provides care for 1.3 million New Yorkers annually. Through its 11 acute care hospital facilities, six Diagnostic and Treatment Centers, four long-term care institutions, and more than 80 neighborhood clinics, HHC provides integrated and comprehensive health services in every community of the city, serving all New Yorkers regardless of their immigration status or their ability to pay.
New York City: In Focus, Vol. 2
Gregory Pierre Mink, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation Art Collection Art Administrator, artist Lia Chang, and Elizabeth Youngbar, HHC’s Assistant Art Administrator at the HHC’s New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2 Exhibit opening reception at Bellevue Hospital in New York on June 23, 2011.  Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Gregory Pierre Mink, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation Art Collection Art Administrator, artist Lia Chang, and Elizabeth Youngbar, HHC’s Assistant Art Administrator at the HHC’s New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2 Exhibit opening reception at Bellevue Hospital in New York on June 23, 2011. Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography


Kudos to curator Gregory Pierre Mink, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation Art Collection Art Administrator and Elizabeth Youngbar, HHC’s Assistant Art Administrator, for putting together an amazing exhibition, that I am proud to be a part of.
Other articles by Lia Chang
Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Lia Chang in Art & Healing Exhibit at Snug Harbor on SI
My Empire State Building at Dusk on view in HHC’s “Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays” Art Exhibit
Lia Chang’s Botanical Beauties Portrait Commission at School of Nursing at Kings County Hospital Center
RED opening reception at Gouverneur Healthcare Services
Meshach Taylor talks Wigger on Wendy Williams Show
Artwork by Asia Flores on display in Mercy High School Annual Art & Soul Art Exhibition in SF
Photos: Samrat Chakrabarti, Soham Mehta and Shiva Shankar Bajpai at the New York Indian Film Festival
Photos: David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks, Amanda Peet, Tracee Chimo opening night of Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

Lia Chang Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Lia currently plays Nurse Lia on “One Life to Live”. She has appeared in Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and “New York Undercover”.

Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Lia Chang: HHC Art Collection’s “New York City: In FOCUS, Vol.2” Photo Exhibit on view 6/23-/7/14,Opening Reception 6/23

New York actor Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation into Scar in The Lion King. Photo by Lia Chang

New York actor Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation into Scar in The Lion King. Photo by Lia Chang

Celebrating over seventy-five years of having public art in hospitals, the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection proudly presents their traveling photographic exhibition, New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2. This exhibition is a modern take on the 1950’s photographic exhibit, Family of Man. The exhibit features a collection of black and white, color, and digital prints that focus on different aspects of iconic imagery; architecture, landscape, culture, and people through-out the five boroughs and snapshots of the NYC experience.

My portrait of “New York actor Thom Sesma’s Makeup Transformation into Scar in The Lion King” is featured in New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, which showcases the work of fifty internationally renowned, New York based photographers, as well as, emerging photographers. Some of the photographers featured in the exhibit are James VanDerZee, Roxanne Lowit, Dawoud Bey, Anthony Barboza, Linda Cummings, Omar Kharem, Chee Wang Ng, Monika Merva, Syd London, Arlene Gottfried, Jose Gutierrez, Jamel Shabazz, Alex Harley, Trang Bui, Nancy Siesel, Bo Zhang, and Mick Rock, among others.

New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, artists’ opening reception will be on Thursday, June 23rd, at 5:30 p.m. at the main lobby/atrium of Bellevue Hospital Center, 462 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The exhibit closes on July 14, 2011.

This art exhibition, New York City: IN FOCUS, Vol. 2, a sequel to the 2008 traveling exhibit, NYC: IN FOCUS, is part of the continuous series of art exhibitions hosted by the HHC Art Collection. These events offer the opportunity for museums, galleries, educators, and the general public to become familiar with the Art Collection, as well an opportunity to showcase established and emerging artists. This is part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation’s philosophy of supporting the community it serves.
http://building.nychhc.org/ArtGallery/.


About HHC: As the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) provides care for 1.3 million New Yorkers annually. Through its 11 acute care hospital facilities, six Diagnostic and Treatment Centers, four long-term care institutions, and more than 80 neighborhood clinics, HHC provides integrated and comprehensive health services in every community of the city, serving all New Yorkers regardless of their immigration status or their ability to pay.

Other articles by Lia Chang
Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Lia Chang in Art & Healing Exhibit at Snug Harbor on SI
My Empire State Building at Dusk on view in HHC’s “Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays” Art Exhibit
Lia Chang’s Botanical Beauties Portrait Commission at School of Nursing at Kings County Hospital Center
RED opening reception at Gouverneur Healthcare Services
Meshach Taylor talks Wigger on Wendy Williams Show
Artwork by Asia Flores on display in Mercy High School Annual Art & Soul Art Exhibition in SF
Photos: Samrat Chakrabarti, Soham Mehta and Shiva Shankar Bajpai at the New York Indian Film Festival
Photos: David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks, Amanda Peet, Tracee Chimo opening night of Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive and here for the Lia Chang Photography Website.

Lia Chang Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang Photo by Brianne Michelle Photography

Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art botanical photographer, and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden. Lia currently plays Nurse Lia on “One Life to Live”. She has appeared in Wolf, New Jack City, A Kiss Before Dying, King of New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Last Dragon, Taxman and “New York Undercover”.

Selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space are in the newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Art and Healing Exhibition at Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island features works by Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Lia Chang and other artists, on view through January 2, 2011

Artist Lia Chang with her "Empire State Building at Dusk" (2007) photograph.

Artist Lia Chang with her "Empire State Building at Dusk" (2007) photograph.


The HHC Foundation and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center has extended the 36-piece exhibit, “Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays,” part of the STAT! For New York City’s Public Hospitals! series of music and art events, through January 2, 2011, due to unprecedented popular demand. The exhibit was originally scheduled to close December 12 as part of the STAT! week-long series of events that both celebrate and benefit the work of the public hospitals and healthcare facilities in challenging times.

The exhibit has silk screens by Andy Warhol and Romare Bearden, a print by Alexander Calder, and a photograph by the renowned chronicler of life in Harlem, James VanDerZee. Photographs by Dawoud Bey, Lia Chang, and Edna Espasas are also on display. There are also works by African-American artists, like Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, VanDerZee, David Hammons, and Benny Andrews.

“The show is a just a gem,” said Lynn Bodnar Kelly, the new president and chief executive director of the Snug Harbor Cultura Center. “We’re fortunate to have a world renowned art collection here on the Island and its stay was extended so more people will have the opportunity to experience this rare cultural event.”

Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays,” presented by the HHC Foundation and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, on view through January 2, 2011.  Photo by Gregory Pierre Mink

Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays,” presented by the HHC Foundation and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, on view through January 2, 2011. Photo by Gregory Pierre Mink

The exhibit at Snug Harbor represents part of more than 6,000 works of art that have been donated to the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) over many decades. The works of art were acquired through the sponsorship of state, federal and municipal programs such as the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Program (WPA/FAP), the New York City Department of Public Works, the Percent for Art and through generous donations from philanthropists, foundations, art organizations, and artists.

“I could be exhibiting anywhere in the world but my photography is focused on healing,” said Artist Lia Chang whose work, Empire State Building at Dusk, is featured at Snug Harbor. “It’s very special to me to be involved in displaying my work in the healing environments created by the public hospital system.”

The HHC collection includes a variety of art pieces in many mediums; prints, painting, mixed media, sculpture, and stained glass, which are installed throughout the main lobbies, waiting rooms, corridors, and patient rooms in HHC facilities to promote a feeling of warmth and to assist in the healing process.

“These pieces belong to the people of the city of New York and this art exists for the public good,” said Greg Mink, Senior Manager of the HHC art collection. “The purpose of art is to elevate and give people goals and ideals to aspire to. It adds to the City’s culture and that’s what the STAT! events are all about.”

The public is welcome to see Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden is located at 1000 Richmond Terrace. Visit snug-harbor.org or call 718-448-2500 for additional information. The cost of admission is $3 for adults and $2 dollars for children and seniors.

HHC facilities on Staten Island include Mariner’s Harbor and Stapleton Family Health Centers, Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home and the HHC Health Connection Mobile Medical Office which serves five different communities across Staten Island throughout the week.

About the HHC Foundation
The HHC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the nation’s largest municipal healthcare system. Partnerships are formed with the private sector to help increase the effectiveness of New York City’s public health system with innovative city wide initiatives, special programs, services, and capital projects created to improve the public’s health and well being.

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All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2010 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachang@hotmail.com.

Lia Chang

Lia Chang


Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art photographer and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

This year, selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space will become part of newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Lia Chang: My “Empire State Building at Dusk” on view in HHC’s “Art and Healing-Healthy for the Holidays” Art Exhibition, 12/5-12/13

Empire State Buliding at Dusk by Lia Chang

Empire State Building at Dusk by Lia Chang on view in Art and Healing


I am delighted to have my “Empire State Building at Dusk” featured in the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s Art Collection’s “Art and Healing –Healthy for the Holiday” art exhibition, at C Hall at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 100 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY, from December 5-13, 2010. The Art and Healing art exhibition’s opening reception will be on December 5th, at 1:30 p.m. at C Hall at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

The exhibit celebrates over seventy-four years of having public art in hospitals, featuring works from HHC’s world-class art collection that kicks off with an afternoon of holiday festivities.

My photograph will be on view in “Art and Healing”, among the works of thirty-six internationally renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Jim Dine, Ilya Bolotowsky, Mary Frank, Richard Haas, Benny Andrews, Robert Motherwell, Ben Shahn, Yvonne Jacquette, Will Barnet, Juan Sanchez, Alex Katz, Hannah Wilke, David Hammons, James VanDerZee, Philip Guston, Rafael Tufino, Red Grooms, Jacob Lawrence, Georges Henri Rouault, Fairfield Porter, Robert Ryman, Lee Krasner and Dawoud Bey.

From December 5th-12th, HHC and the HHC Foundation of New York, on behalf of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation are presenting STAT! For New York City’s Public Hospitals! a week-long series of music and art events that will both celebrate and benefit the work of our public hospitals and healthcare facilities in challenging times.

These events offer the opportunity for museums, galleries, educators, and the general public to become familiar with the HHC Art Collection, as well an opportunity to showcase established and emerging artists. This is part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation’s philosophy of supporting the community it serves.

The reception will include live entertainment by the rock band the Repeat Offenders and other special surprises.

About HHC: As the largest municipal healthcare system in the United States, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) provides care for 1.3 million New Yorkers annually. Through its 11 acute care hospital facilities, six Diagnostic and Treatment Centers, four long-term care institutions, and more than 80 neighborhood clinics, HHC provides integrated and comprehensive health services in every community of the city, serving all New Yorkers regardless of their immigration status or their ability to pay.

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silive.com: Week-long exhibit at Staten Island’s Snug Harbor will include work from Andy Warhol
Lia Chang’s Botanical Beauties Portrait Commission at School of Nursing at Kings County Hospital Center
My Botanical Beauties for the LIU/King’s County Hospital Center Nursing School
Gouverneur Healthcare Services Hosts “RED” Photographic Exhibit by Lia Chang As Part of Chinese New Year Celebration

Other Articles by Lia Chang
Photos: David Duchovny, John Earl Jelks, Amanda Peet,Tracee Chimo opening night of Neil LaBute’s The Break of Noon
André De Shields leads cast of Charles Smith’s Knock Me A Kiss at Abrons Arts Center, 11/11-12/5
Photos & Video Disney’s The Lion King Las Vegas-In the Makeup Chair with Thom Sesma
Photo Call: BD Wong and the Cast of Heading East at the Asia Society
Crafting a Career
Awards, Exhibitions and Published Work
Click here for the Lia Chang Articles Archive.


Bookmark and Share

All text, graphics, articles & photographs: © 2000-2010 Lia Chang Multimedia. All rights reserved. All materials contained on this site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Lia Chang. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. For permission, please contact Lia at liachang@hotmail.com.

Lia Chang

Lia Chang


Lia Chang is an actor, performance and fine art photographer and an award-winning multimedia journalist.

As a photographer and videographer, Lia collaborates with artists, organizations and companies in establishing their documentary photo archive and social media presence. She has been documenting her colleagues and contemporaries in the arts, fashion and journalism since making her stage debut as Liat in the National Tour of South Pacific, with Robert Goulet and Barbara Eden.

This year, selections of Lia’s archive of Asian Pacific Americans in the arts, fashion, journalism, politics and space will become part of newly created LIA CHANG THEATER PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO in the ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION housed in the Library of Congress Asian Division’s Asian American Pacific Islander Collection.

Lia’s portraits and performance photos have appeared in Vanity Fair, Gourmet, German Elle, Women’s Wear Daily, The Paris Review, VIBE, TV Guide, Daily Variety, Interior Design, American Theatre, Broadwayworld.com, Life & Style, OUT, New York Magazine, InStyle, Timeout.com, Villagevoice.com, Playbill.com, Theatermania.com, thelmagazine.com, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, New York Times and Washington Post. A former syndicated arts and entertainment columnist for KYODO News, Lia is the New York Bureau Chief for AsianConnections.com. She writes about culture, style and Asian American issues for a variety of publications and this Backstage Pass with Lia Chang blog.

Traveling Exhibition Focuses on New York City

In Focus in Bellevue Hospital Atrium on October 9, 2008. (Photo by Kaoru Watanabe)

Lia Chang at reception for New York City: In Focus in Bellevue Hospital Atrium on October 9, 2008. (Photo by Kaoru Watanabe)

My “Empire State Building at Dusk” is on display in The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Art Collection’s exhibit, New York City: In Focus, currently on view at Bellevue Hospital Center.After Bellevue, the traveling exhibit will be on display at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx from 10/27-11/5 and Queens Hospital Center from 11/6-11/21. The exhibit features New York based photographers Tanya Ahmed, Pamela Allen, Sol Aramendi, Patrick Ashley, Dawoud Bey, Irma Bohorquez-Geisler, Trang Bui, Edwin Cadiz, Melody Cassen, Mara Catalan, Wayne Clarke, Marisol Diaz, Victor J. Duran, Mark Elliot, Fred Floyd, Maria Frolyak, Mary Teresa Giancoli, Arlene Gottfried, Audrey Gottlieb, D. Lammie Hanson, Alex Harslely, Leroy Henderson, Yen Ngoc Huynh, Lawrence Ivy, Valerie Jennings, Kitty Katz, Daniel Kim, Gregory Mahabee, Charlie Martin, Linda Morales, Karen Moscovitch, Cristian Pena, John Perra, Valerie Phillips, Eva Ritchie, Rita Rivera, Sherlock Robinson, Geno Rodriguez, Anna Sawaryn, Charles Schwartz, Nancy Siesel, Ming Smith, Rebecca Swanson, Sikay Tang, James VanDerZee and Bill Westheimer.

Bellevue Hospital Center, Main Lobby/Atrium, 462 First Ave, New York -10/9-10/23

Jacobi Medical Center, Galleria, 1400 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx -10/27-11/5

Queens Hospital Center, Main Lobby/Atrium, 82-68 164th St., Jamaica-11/6-11/21

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