For the first time, Zachery C. Longboy’s groundbreaking practice expands into the digital interactive and immersive realm — making its world premiere at Signals 2025. Drawing on 34 years of pioneering work that has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the National Gallery of Canada, and galleries across the country, Longboy’s latest creation continues his fearless exploration of identity, belonging, and resilience. Born in Churchill, Manitoba of Sayisi Dene lineage, Longboy’s multi-disciplinary works weave together video, performance, and installation, placing his lived experience as a white-adopted, Indigenous, Two-Spirited, HIV+ man at the center of powerful, hybrid storytelling. His immersive premiere invites audiences into a visceral encounter with land, memory, and spirit, marking a new chapter in a career that has consistently challenged and expanded the boundaries of contemporary art.
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Artist Biography
Zachery C Longboy is a Video maker, performance/installation artist. Born in Churchill, Manitoba of Sayisi Dene lineage, Longboy places his multiple identities as a white-adopted, indigenous, Two-Spirited, HIV+ Man at the centre of his multi-disciplinary practice. His intensely felt, hybridly layered videos often use his complex performance installations as a departure point. His works concentrate most on the clash of his indigenous heritage with his white cultural environment. Longboy is nationally honoured, widely shown in private and public collections. The Surrey Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Glenbow Museum (Calgary), The Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa). Numerous screenings include The Edmonton Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), Images Independent Film and Video Festival
Videography:
” From another time comes one, into a new time becomes a brother” 10:00 min. 1990
“eating lunch” 10:00 min. 1992
”Choose Your Plague” (with Paul Lang, 1993
“living tree” 00:30 sec. 1993
“water into fire” 11:00 min 1999
“confirmation of my sins” 10:30 min. 1996
“the stone show” 10:00 min. 2000
”rapture”(with Justin Ducharme) 14 min. 2021
“Guardian of sleep 11:13 min ”2022*
“RUNNING” 4:03 min“2023”
“Wonderland” 7:58 min “2024”
“Appleseed Family Reunion” 2:03 min. “2024”
“HOST” 10 min “2024
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