Solo Shows

2016 Playing and Reality, Fotofurum Cologne, Germany

2011 Shoulder to Shoulder,   Matt Roberts Gallery, London

2008 Try to Do Things We All Can Understand, StreetLevel Gallery, Glasgow (Part of G.I.)

Selected Group

2018 Necessary Conditions, Clore Gallery, Tate St Ives

2017 Reading Room, Rokeby Gallery, London

The Ear, Transition Gallery, London

Sommaire, FRAC Poitou-Charente, France

2016 Liberties, The Exchange Gallery, Penzance

Telling Tales, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

Feminine Masculine: Photo 50 at The London Art Fair, London

2015 Liberties, launch of A Womans Place, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

Ed Ruscha Books and Co, Gagosian Gallery, Paris

2014 ABCEUM, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton University Gallery

2013 Creekside Open 2013 Selected by Paul Noble, A.P.T Gallery, London

A House of Many Windows, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

Ed Ruscha Books and Co, Gagosian Gallery, NY

2012 Shoulder to Shoulder, Deptford X Festival, London

I Love You, Tenderpixel Gallery, London

C/O Berlin Book Days, Postfuhramt Berlin, Germany

Photosoup, Unit 21 Gallery, London

Unspoken Ceremonies, Parlour Gallery, London

2011 Deptford X Open, Core Gallery, London

Salon Photo Show, Matt Roberts Arts London

2010 Discoveries, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, USA

Print Now, Bearspace Gallery, London

2009 Salon Summer Show, Salon Contemporary, London

Group / Grope, Area 10, Peckham London

Helsinki Photography Triennial 2009, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland

Format 2009 – Photocinema, International Photography Festival, Derby, UK

2008 Click Chicks, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA

ICY, Minnesota Centre for Photography, Minneapolis, USA

2007 Girl Parade, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia

Domestic Encounters, PDNB Gallery, Dallas, USA

As serious as your life, Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden

Marie Claire RIP, Quayside Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada

2nd International Fotofestival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg, Germany

The Emergence of The Digital Portrait, Clampart Gallery, New York

Photographer’s Network 2007, Thomas Kellner Studio, Siegen, Germany

Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie, Germany

Awards

2015 Marie Claire RIP and Jezebel selected by Kaleid Editions

2012 Selected artist for C/O Berlin Book Days

2011 Winner of The International Salon Photo Prize

2006 Emerging Photographers Award Winner, Toronto

Books

2015 Rabbit, self-published artists book edition of 100

2014 Archive, as part of ABCEUM

2013 Marie Claire RIP and Jezebel, published by L’Heure Dit, Paris.

2012 APED, self-published book as part of ABCED box-set.

2011 love is… Ltd Edition artists book. Self-published.

from a distance, self-published artists book.

Selected Bookfairs

As a member of ABC Artists Book Co-operative I have shown at the following fairs:

Dusseldorf Photo Book Salon, New York Art Bookfair, Whitechapel Art Bookfair, Offprint Paris, Copeland Art Bookfair.

Selected Bibliography

2016 Essay: Playing and Reality in the work of EJ Major / Photomonitor

2014 Essay: Duncan Wooldridge/ love is… 1,000 Words

2013 Essay: Catherine Somzé / Meet Marie Claire:Photomonitor

        Eassay: Catherine Somzé / Jezebel:Photomonitor

2012 Anna McNay / love is…: Photomonitor

2011 Review: Culture 24

Review: 1,000 Words Magazine

Review: Re-title

Review: Alan Thinks

Review: Roves and Roams

“Q&A EJ Major on Love Is…” – Flash Forward

“Who, What, Why – Love Is… Last Tango in Paris” –Another Magazine

“An Interview with Artist EJ Major” – Amelias Magazine

2008 “EJ Major – Try to Do Things We All Can Understand”Mitch Miller Varoom No 7

“Reviews” – Susannah Thompson, Modern Painters P99 June

“Taking a pop at Pop culture” – Jack Mottram, The Herald 04/04/08

“Review” – Alexander Kennedy, The List P94 10-24 April

2007 “Love Is…postcards from the edge” by Simon Bainbridge Magenta Magazine

         “Reality Crossings” by Christoph Tannert European Photography Number 82

“W(h)ither Feminism? Joy Christensen and E-J Major” by Charissa N. Terranova Glasstire June

2006 “Profile – EJ Major” by Simona Vladikova Fotograf no 7 / vol5 p4-7

“Fokus Auf EJ Major” by Anne LemhoferFrankfurter Rundschau 21/10/06

“Focus – Emerging Artists” Ute Krepler ARTinvestor 01/ p50-51

TV

2009 Interview – Finnish News in Helsinki about the Marie Claire RIP piece in the show Aletheia. https://youtu.be/0feeILbZmGo

2007 Interview – Swedish Cultural News. Related show – As Serious as Your Life.

Academic Qualifications

2009 MFA   Art Practice     Goldsmiths University

1999 BA (Hons) First Class   Photography     Nottingham Trent University

Additional BA courses in Anthropology and Psychology and MA courses in Film Studies.