Deej Fabyc was born in London, UK, in 1961. She works with a variety of forms including performance, installation and video. Fabyc has described her ongoing interests as addressing "...the psychological dimensions of the personal and political experience of trauma" - her work evoking a "...sense or ambivalence and ‘schlock horror’".
After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Southern Cross University in 1988, Fabyc was active as an artist in Sydney and elsewhere in Australia exhibiting and performing in a number of venues and galleries in both solo and groups hsows including Roslyn Oxley Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, Artspace and the Ivan Dougherty Gallery. Fabyc was the director of the artist run initiative Elastic.
Throughout the latter part of the 1990s Fabyc was exhibiting in the UK and in Europe and, after 2000, when she was awarded an MFA from the University of NSW College of Fine Arts, she relocated permanently to London. Fabyc established Elastic as an exhibition space there and is a key figure in the group KISSS an international curatorium of artists working with issues of surveillance.
Recent performance work includes Details at L’abracada Festival International d’Art Contemporani, Castell de la Bisbal, Spain [2006]; And She Watched, Trace Installation Artspace, Cardiff, [2005] and Kingsgate Gallery, London [2004]; and in Don't Call it Performance, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid and Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain, 2003.
2008
Quiet Bells Sprung, Dartington Gallery Devon UK
2006
The Parlour Room-Keening After Things, Elastic Residence London
We Can Work it Out, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Sydney Australia
2005
Handle on Nowhere, Gallery Barry Keldoulis Sydney Australia
And she watched Trace Gallery, Cardiff (Wales)
2003
Cherry Ripe and other Complications, MOP Sydney Australia
2000
Deej Fabyc, Elastic gallery, Sydney
1999
Notes from Continuous Circumstance, Performance Space
Australian Perspecta "Living Here Now"
1998
Secondary Complications, William Mora Gallery Melbourne
The white Room Strawberry Girl, Experimental Art Foundation
1997
Green Room /Arcadia, In Dialogue curated by Theo Tagelaars W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2008 | Artists Rank at The Guy Hilton Gallery Presents, Libe On Stage |
Leaves Fall Yet They Return a ceremony The Gallery, Dartington | |
2007 | Rules And Regs, A Space Gallery, Southampton |
Specter versus Rector, The Residence Gallery, London | |
2006 | Making Love to your Ego Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (UK) |
Details, live work at L’Abracada, Gresol Festival International | |
d’Art Contemporani Castell de la Bisbal, Spain | |
For Matthew and Others, Cambelltown Arts Centre curated by Anne | |
Loxley, Sydney, Australia | |
Between the Sheets a TactileBosch project at Juno Records, Camden, London UK, | |
Making Love to your Ego, curated by 'Another Product,' Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK | |
2005 | KISSS(Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and |
Supression) Conical Inc, Fitzroy, VIC | |
Pisstake,Live at KISSS Launch Whitechapel Art Gallery,London |
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A Piece of Me, TactileBosch part of the Cardiff Contemporary | |
The Shangri-La Collective, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila | |
Elastic - an Archive Project, The Cross Art Projects, Sydney |
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2004 | Don't Call it Performance/No lo llames performance Centro |
Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Spain | |
Don't Call it Performance/No lo llames performance, El Museo | |
del Barrio, NY,NY, USA. | |
And she Watched, Kingsgate Gallery London |
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Institute for physics Group Show, curated by Jill Rock London | |
All for Love, Brompton Cemetery curated by Jill Rock London | |
Muddy Love 2004, Ben Eastop/Anne Bean 6000 chairs event. | |
Bile Story Act 2, 291 Gallery London | |
Etak, curated by Joanna Callaghan at Elastic Residence | |
Shangrilla Collective, organised by Maria Cruz video show at | |
Artspace, Sydney touring to Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane | |
Elastic, Elastic Residence London, UK | |
2003 | Don't Call it Performance/No lo llames performance Centro de |
Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. & Centro Parraga, Murcia, Spain | |
New York Calling P.S.1 Studio project, Long Island City, NY USA |
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The Shangri-la Collective Artspace, Sydney | |
Call Call Me Now, with Elvis Richardson, Changing Channels Berlin | |
2002 | The Difference Between You & Us, 5 years Gallery, London |
Attention Span, Freespace, Sydney, Australia | |
Erskineville Bile Story, Performance Hard Times, Curated by | |
Nick Tsoutas as a satellite event of the Sydney Biennale 2002 | |
2001 |
Perfect Strangers, Curated by Blair French, Canberra |
Contemporary Art Space & CCP, Melbourne (2000) Australia | |
Blondies and Brownies - weiß weiß bin ich auch curated by | |
Rafael Von Uslar, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany | |
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Victoria, Australia | |
Details performance in the Slovenian Pavilion - International Sex | |
Worker Forum Venice Biennale Italy. | |
Caravan – Freespace – Sydney Australia curated by Lisa Andrews | |
2000 | Blondies and Brownies, curated by Rafeal Von Uslar,TORCH gallery, |
Amsterdam | |
Starring Five Years, London (England) | |
August 26, Curated by Deej Fabyc, Elastic gallery, Sydney | |
Group Show, Elastic gallery, Sydney | |
1999 | Exit/Action, performance, Performance Space, Sydney. |
Telling Tales, Curated by Peter Weibel, Jill Bennett, & Jackie Dunn, the Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria & Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney. (1998) | |
Details, live symp. Trauma & Memory, Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria | |
Sin- thetics, Curated by Lea Donnan, Herringbone gallery, Sydney | |
1998 | Details, performance at Artspace Sydney |
The Caretakers Residence, Performance at The Bridge- | |
Construction in Process, Melbourne. With Elvis Richardson. | |
Every other day Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
Private Parts MUMA - Monash University Museum of Art, Australia | |
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam,& Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. | |
Muddy Love, Telling Tales Exhibition at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery | |
1997 | Dialogue, W139 Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands |
Contempora 5, National Gallery of Victoria | |
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney. | |
Details, performance at the Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland | |
Cry me a River, performance at Artspace, Sydney and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |