Long Xi Vlessing 龙喜:

I’m a photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist from Vancouver, British Columbia, living and working on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including that of the Skwxwú7mesh, xʷməθkwəy̓əm, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ nations, and in Montréal, Québec, or Tiohtià:ke, on the unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. 

Contact me: 

longxivlessing@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts — Specialization in Communication Studies (film/moving image), graduated with Great Distinction —Concordia University, Montréal 2022

Charles Gagnon Award, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal 2021

British Columbia Achievement Scholarship Award and District Authority Scholarship Award in Applied Design, Skills and Technologies, awarded by the Government of British Columbia 2018


EXHIBITION

A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes, solo exhibition, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver 2023

Maternal Instinct, group presentation, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver 2023

Scorch, group exhibition, House of VANS at the Rialto Theatre, Montréal 2023

Blanket Song, film screening, Gathering Place Community Centre, Vancouver 2023

Head, group exhibition, House of VANS at Dillon Ojo Fest, Montréal 2023

Blanket Song, film installation, A Living Taste Gallery, Vancouver 2022

ISO, solo installation, 16 E Cordova, Vancouver 2021 

Quarantine Qapsule, group exhibition, collection of Emily Carr University of Art and Design library 2021


FILM

Blanket Song, short 2021

Short fashion film for Sever Studio, New York City 2021

Portraits d’arbres de Montréal, video collaboration with CitéStudio Montréal 2019

鬼佬 Foreign Ghost, short film (editor) 2018 FORM Festival of Recorded Movement, Vancouver 2018

PHOTO PUBLICATION

Here, There, photo book by INTER-AGENCY 2023

Welcome to the Era Era: The 2023 Trend Report, SSENSE 2023 

Currently Arts Society Archive 

SSENSE 2022/23 
Anna Sui, Bottega Veneta, Commission, Craig Green, Diesel, 
Dries Van Noten, Eckhaus Latta, ERL, Jacquemus, Jil Sander, 
Maison Margiela, Marshall Columbia, Mowalola, Raf Simons, 
Rick Owens, Vivienne Westwood + more

Hardchive Reference Manual 2022

Orphan Film Symposium 13th edition, New York University 2022

James Jin for Another Species 2022

ISO in Suko Magazine 2022

Project 002: Play, INTER-AGENCY 2021

You say you love my waist but that means nothing to me because a body is a body is a body is a body, Aqua Regia Magazine, Issue 2: The Now Issue 2020

Untitled photographs, Aqua Regia Magazine, Issue 1: The Premier Issue 2020