EJ Major
Born Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Shows – Solo
2011
Shoulder to Shoulder, Matt Roberts Arts, London
2008
Try to Do Things We All Can Understand, Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow
In Association with Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art
Selected group
2011
Deptford X Open, Core Gallery, London
Salon Photo Show, Matt Roberts Arts London
2010
Discoveries, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, USA
Print Now, The London Art Fair, London
Staff Show, MDX University, London
Love Equinox, Passing Clouds, London
Print Now, Bearspace Gallery, London
2009
Salon Summer Show, Salon Contemporary, London
MFA Show, Goldsmiths, 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
2006
Emerging Photographers Award Show, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
Zoo Art Fair with Trolley Gallery, London
Shoreditch Arts Festival, Leonard St, London
Fotobild, Berlin
Love Is… Camera, in association with Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
Selected Bibliography
2011
“Q&A EJ Major on Love Is…” – http://blog.flashforwardfestival.com/?p=173
“Who, What, Why – Love Is… Last Tango in Paris” - http://www.anothermag.com/current/view/1264/Love_isLast_Tango_in_Paris
“An Interview with Artists EJ Major” – http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/art/ej-major/2011/07/28/
2008
“EJ Major – Try to Do Things We All Can Understand” – Mitch Miller, P 56-57 Varoom No 7, 2008
“Reviews” – Susannah Thompson, Modern Painters P99 June 2008
“Taking a pop at Pop culture” – Jack Mottram, The Herald 04/04/08
“Review” – Alexander Kennedy, The List P94 10-24 April 2008
2007
“Love Is…postcards from the edge” by Simon Bainbridge Magenta Magazine / winter / p20-23
“Reality Crossings” by Christoph Tannert European Photography Number 82 p62-63
“The Other F-word. Third Generation Feminism and its Antecedents.”
by Rachel Cook ArtLies Summer 2007 p14-25
“W(h)ither Feminism? Joy Christensen and E-J Major” by Charissa N. Terranova Glasstire June 07
2006
“Profile – EJ Major” by Simona Vladikova Fotograf no 7 / 2006 / vol 5 p4-7
“Fokus Auf EJ Major” by Anne LemhoferFrankfurter Rundschau 21/10/06
“Focus – Emerging Artists” Ute Krepler ARTinvestor 01/2006 p50-51
Publications
2009
Format 09 – Photocinema, Quad Publishing UK
Aletheia – Positions in Contemporary Photography, Helsinki Press, Finland
2008
GI – Cross Section. CCA Press, SC
2006-2007
Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie Catalogue, DTF Press, DE
Flash Forward, The Magenta Foundation CA
TV
2009
Interview – Finnish News in Helsinki about the Marie Claire RIP piece in the show Aletheia.
2007 – Interview – Swedish Cultural News. Related show – As Serious as Your Life.
Awards / Education
2011
Salon Photo Prize Overall Winner, Matt Roberts Arts
2009
MFA Art Practice, Goldsmiths University
2006
Emerging Photographers Award Winner, Toronto
2000
Manchester Academy Preston’s of Bolton Award
Lincolnshire Gallery Overall Winner
1996-99
BA First Class (Hons) Photography, Nottingham Trent University