Long Xi Vlessing

Born 2000 Vancouver, British Columbia
Lives in Montréal, Québec


EDUCATION

2022 Bachelor of Arts — Specialization in Communication Studies, awarded with Great Distinction —Concordia University, Montréal

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

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


SOLO EXHIBITION

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

2021 ISO, 16 E Cordova, Vancouver


GROUP EXHIBITION

2025 Photos on Fridges (Suddenly there was nothing), Harkawik, New York City, USA

2025 Around Back by the Tracks, 183 Bates, Montréal

2025 无界 Unbounded, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China

2024 for the love of the game, Céline Bureau & Espace Loulou, Montréal

2024 Lilypad Magazine: F*ck, what’s my job today? Waste Space, London, UK

2024 Wide Open, 32 Rue Beaurepaire, Paris, France

2024 Where I’m From 我的家, Gallery 881, Vancouver

2023 Maternal Instinct, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver

2023 Scorch, Rialto Theatre, Montréal

2023 Head, Dillon Ojo Fest, Montréal

2021 Quarantine Qapsule, Emily Carr University of Art and Design eLibrary, Vancouver



FILM

Blanket Song

2024 Gallery 881, Vancouver

2023 Seattle Asian American Film Festival

2023 Vancouver Short Film Festival

2023 The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver

2023 Pebbles Underground Film and Video Festival, Toronto

2023 A Living Taste Gallery, Vancouver

2023 Gathering Place Community Centre, Vancouver   

2022 Vancouver Chinese Film Festival

2022 Vancouver International Youth Film Festival

2022 Concordia Film Festival, Montréal

2022 International New West Film Fest, New Westminster, BC


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


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-present SSENSE, Montréal. Photographer

2022-present Cinema Politica, Montréal. Film Programmer

2021-2022 Orphan Film Symposium, New York University & Concordia University, Montréal. Visual Director


SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATION


2025 Jerry Saltz, The Best Art Shows of 2025, New York Magazine, New York City, USA

2025 Divine Angubua, Long Xi Vlessing’s Queens of the Night, Liminul Magazine, Toronto

2024 Silver Steak, Wooden Spoon, Community Service Magazine, Montréal

2024 Getting Over My Fear of Balloons, Lilypad Magazine, New York City, USA

2023 Long Xi Vlessing: ISO, Suko Magazine, Montréal

2020 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, Vancouver


COLLECTIONS

A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes 

2024 Concordia University Visual Collections Repository, Montréal

ISO

2024 Hard Liver Library, Vancouver

2021 Emily Carr University of Art and Design eLibrary, Vancouver

2021 Canton-sardine Library, Vancouver

2021 Lasalu Art Library, Taipei

2021 British Columbia Quarantine Qapsule