Deej Fabyc

{{Short description|UK-Australian performance artist (born 1960)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

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| birth_place = London, England

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| field = performance art, installation art, video

| training = Southern Cross University University of New South Wales

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Deej Fabyc (born 1961) is a British-born, Australian performance video and installation artist.{{cite web |title=Fabyc, Deej (1961-) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/1516842 |website=Trove |access-date=4 September 2023}}{{cite web |title=Deej Fabyc |url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deej-fabyc/events/ |website=Design and Art Australia Online |access-date=4 September 2023}}

Fabyc is a former member of art collectives including Jillposters in Melbourne,{{cite web |title=JILL POSTERS 1 |url=https://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/2514/ |website=Prints and Printmaking |access-date=4 September 2023 |language=en}} FBI+ in London,{{cite web |title=Fabyc Best Imara – Interrogating Constructed Reality |url=https://fbi.works/ |website=FBI |access-date=4 September 2023}} and Elastic Residence in London.{{cite web |title=Home |url=http://elastic.org.uk/ |website=Elastic Residence |access-date=4 September 2023}} They were a member of the Bitumen River Gallery in Canberra, Australia.{{cite book |last1=Wawrzyńczak |first1=Anni Doyle |title=How Local Art Made Australia's National Capital |date=2020 |publisher=Australian National University Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZ_6DwAAQBAJ|pages=157, 182 |isbn=9781760463410 |access-date=4 September 2023}}

Their work has been shown at Artspace, Sydney,{{cite journal |last1=Gibson |first1=Jeff |title=Deej Fabyc |journal=Art & Text |date=January 1996 |issue=53 |pages=69–70 |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=505776593&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=4 September 2023}} the El Museo del Barrio, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Reina Sofia Museum, and the Whitechapel Gallery.Their work deals with three primary themes: gender, space and "forensic biography." It has been described, by the art writer Robert Preece, as being "demanding, aggressively thought-provoking, and sometimes shocking in its raw content."{{cite journal |last1=Dickenson |first1=Bob |title=KISSS: Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and Suppression Castlefield, Manchester |journal=Art Monthly |date=November 2008 |issue=321 |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=505354469&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=4 September 2023}}

During the past 30 years, they have held roles in education, curating, and project management, and are currently the CEO of Live Art Ireland.{{cite web |title=Governance |url=https://www.live-art.ie/people/ |website=Live Art Ireland |access-date=4 September 2023}}