Portland Community College (PCC), 2022. Career Pathways Certificate in Creative Coding & Immersive Technologies
Reed College 2016, B.A. in Anthropology. Senior thesis: In Whose Terms?: Difference, Similarity, and Prosthesis in the Human-Dolphin Encounter
realgirl.online. Webzine.
realgirl1994. Series of zines. Made with the support of the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
1000 Tapes. Series of one-of-a-kind cassette tapes.
ADX: 5 Years In: A Pandemic Art Pop-Up. Group art show.
Launch of realgirl.online, an ongoing webzine serving as continuous documentation for my art practice.
AB. Album, self-released on Bandcamp. Made with a 2023 Regional Arts and Culture Council grant.
realgirl1994 issues 23, 24, and 25. Self-published and printed at the Independent Publishing Resource Center
Precipice Fund Round 11 Grant, awarded for music video for Anarchy A as well as Alphabet, a series of video art. Collaboration with Nzinga Valentine.
AB. Forthcoming EP. Funded with a 2023 grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
realgirl1994 issues 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22. Self-published and printed at the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
Material Condition: MatCon Presents: Six Feet Show 2:3, on October 9, 2022. Live music as abbymachines alongside performances by remy autumn torres, xesxa despentes, colin keating, and f. botello.
Books With Pictures: Comics Club on August 20, 2022. Live music as abbymachines alongside comics readings by A'misa Chiu, Anhecomics, Faulty's Comics, Natalie Dupille.
A. Album, self-released on Bandcamp. Made with the 2021 RACC Make/Learn/Build grant.
Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery: A Series of Interconnected Delights. Immersive and interactive installation made with the 2022 PCC Creative Coding cohort.
Speed's Auto Body: Troll Fest. Music festival, performing as abbymachines with Terra Nobody, Golden Boy, Father's Milk, Vern Fonk, Weehwk, Kid Toast, Audry Pryce and Every Discomfort, The Pigeon and the People, and The Yams. 2022.5.14.
Carnation Contemporary: The Extended Ear: An Artist Book Fair. Group show, curated by Hannah Newman and Kris Blackmore. Issues 2, 8, and 9 of realgirl1994 on display.
Local Cinema: Animal Crossing Livestream & Trans Lifeline Fundraiser #1. Featuring Schaus and Alexandrite.
Squeaky Wheel's 18th Animation Fest. Screening of music video for easy_v3.4.
Blogging without a blog: Processing creativity with Tumblr, Scrivener, or simple word processors. Live workshop as part of the Portland Zine Symposium #VirtualPZS2021.
National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures: 2021 Actos de Confianza Relief Grant.
Holding the Line: Notes from Walking the Picket Line with the Burgerville Workers Union. Essay published in Soap Ear journal.
Ends with manuel arturo abreu. Interview with abreu + sound collage based on 1000 Tapes, broadcast on Montez Press Radio.
Regional Arts and Culture Council's Make/Learn/Build Grant. Awarded for work on my upcoming album as well as research on trans electronica.
HECHA / 做 NYC Anti-Green-Sheen Zine II. Untitled comic about greenwashing at Burgerville.
2021 Artist Talk: A diet of worms and realgirl1994. Recap of my 2020 projects supported by grants and residencies. (documentation coming soon)
Excerpt from A diet of worms, published in the fourth volume of Death Rattle’s Oroboro literary journal.
Carnation Contemporary: Across Today's Tomorrow group show with Salimatu Amabebe, Jessica Mehta, Inés Paulina Ramírez, Angela Saenz & Laura Camila Medina, and Melanie Stevens.
Regional Arts and Culture Council Catalyst Grant: A Diet of Worms
Independent Publishing Resource Center 2020-2021 BIPOC Residency: realgirl1994 and other zines
single: Beer
single: Trynna Keep Up
album: The Meatmachine
[Abby Castillo] @ Boathouse Microcinema, screening of video art shared on YouTube from 2012-2018. At the Boathouse Microcinema in Portland, OR on October 28.
conduit gallery: The Human Use of Human Fish, play written and staged with Lauren Lollie Nelson, starring Tonya Jone Miller
album: EVIL ALL THE TIME