Long Xi Vlessing

b. 2000 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 
Living in Montréal, Québec.

longxivlessing@gmail.com


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



SOLO EXHIBITION

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

2022 Blanket Song, A Living Taste Gallery, Vancouver

2021 ISO, 16 E Cordova, Vancouver



GROUP EXHIBITION

2025 ...

2025 Around Back By the Tracks, 183 Bates Studio, Montréal

2025 无界 Unbounded, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, Fujian, 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 Blanket Song, Gathering Place Community Centre, Vancouver

2023 Head, Dillon Ojo Fest, Montréal

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



FILM

2021 Blanket Song, short film

Gallery 881, Vancouver 2024
Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2023
Vancouver Short Film Festival 2023
The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver 2023
Vancouver Chinese Film Festival 2022
Vancouver International Youth Film Festival 2022
Concordia Film Festival, Montréal 2022
International New West Film Fest, BC 2022
Pebbles Underground Film and Video Festival, Toronto 2022/23
A Living Taste Gallery, Vancouver 2023
Gathering Place Community Centre, Vancouver 2023

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



SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022-2025 SSENSE, Montréal, Photographer

2022-2025 Cinema Politica, Montréal, Film Programmer

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



SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATION


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

2024 Silver Steak, Wooden Spoon, Community Service Magazine

2024 Getting Over My Fear of Balloons, Lilypad Magazine

2023 Long Xi Vlessing: ISO, Suko Magazine, Montréal, Canada

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


COLLECTION

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, BC