CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2023 High School Exhibition

The works in this gallery were all created by Chicago Public Schools students. They celebrate art, design, growth, and learning. Join us in exploring the work of some of Chicago’s best young artists and designers! Want more? Browse Honorable Mention projects or Elementary School exhibition.

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a character.

Giselle Raigosa: Not Your Genius, Not Your Prodigy
A table filled with food and a family surrounding it.

Saskya Lema Lema: Ofrenda
The faces of two children are covered by thread.

Jennifer Aguilera-Martinez: Recuerdos

Anonymous: Antique Ambiance
Drawing of a money and two male subjects.

Agata Siwinska: Fear Ink

Anonymous: Van Gogh’s Ear

Anonymous: Untitled 3

Maite Armijos: Untitled
Drawing of a person with a flower head.

Anonymous: Untitled
A ceramic mug with a face like a cat.

Anonymous: Self-Portrait Mug
3d book art.

Adelina Brown: The So Long Saloon

Enesa Grebovic: Old Bridge
Drawing of someone cutting food.

Anonymous: Mother
A woman holds her face in her hands.

Maria Brito: Entrendre
Collage of ship at sea and rubber ducks.

Carolina Loja: Not all troubles are tragic
A bowl of pozole with an avocado and coca cola.

Alondra Castillo: Pozole de mi Abuela

Kijah Woods: Untitled
Sculpture of an opossum character.

Christian Harper: Lazarus
A girl floats in a bathtub. She is surrounded by flowers.

Anonymous: Flower Bed
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a detailed bird.

Anonymous: Omen

Yumeri Garcia: “Nuestro America, Our Life”

Kashmala Khalid: Kite Flying
Drawing of a girl with a hair full of flowers.

Yrva Desormeaux: The Girl In Flowers

Anonymous: Myself
Abstract blue line painting.

Cesar Nunez: Rain

Bailey Taylor: Infected

Lisa Patel: Shadows Behind The Ligh

Eloise Park: Crossata

Anonymous: Untitled
A charcoal on paper drawing of a folded up paper boat. The boat is designed with drawn creatures.

Anonymous: Paper Boat
A photo of granola and a jar of food.

Anonymous: Souvenirs

Amani Mohammad: A Simple Reflection
Collage work of a abstract snake.

Evelina Poole: Frozen by Fear
Drawing of sunflowers in vase.

Zaida Soumanou: Untitled

Anonymous: 정
A drawing of a building with a batman logo. There are trees below the building and a hanging spider web.

Anonymous: Untitled
A digital piece of a woman standing in water with her eyes closed and hair flowing upwards.

Anonymous: Lifted
Colorful abstract photography.

Alex Chitnis: Rainbow Breeze

Anonymous: Untitled

Isabella Flores: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Bianca Burnett: Untitled
A person on a clock with a leash around their neck being pulled out by a hand

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Rooms

Zoe Crooks: Colors of the night

Anonymous: Destruction (The Cycle)

Margareth Cervantes: Last Birthday
Abstract sculpture of a gray monster.

Emily Lach: Pinch Pot Monster

Anonymous: Eagle Bodybuilder

Anonymous: Ghostly Change

Anonymous: Archeology, 3500 A.C.
Drawing of a fly trap.

Victoria Bobadilla: Fly Trap

Anonymous: Raccotter

Anonymous: Deflated

Anonymous: Free from Rejection of Belief
Painting of underwater plants.

Jae Nguyen: Lily Pads

Alondra Torres: Cristalo
A monochromatic pink painting of one eye with a thin tree placed in front of it.

Anonymous: Eye Watcher
A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach

Anonymous: Summer at the Weltons

Anonymous: Untitled
An oil pastel and marker drawing of a hand holding a love letter from a secret admirer addressed to Pearl.

Anonymous: Unknown Love Letter

Anonymous: Gods Painting of the Sky
A pencil drawing of a person's face. Around the face are different scenes drawn from the person's life.

Anonymous: Seeing Through The Past

Anonymous: Untitled Self Portrait
Photo of a trumpet and rose.

Jesus Chavarria: Rusty Bloom
Abstract drawing.

Valeria Miranda: Untitled
A mixed media portrait of Harriet Tubman. Behind her is a geometric pattern.

Anonymous: Harriet Tubman

Anonymous: Snake
A picture of a diner on a street.

Esmeralda Hernandez-Galan: Don’s Grill
Boulders overlooking a lake and pine needle branches.

Gloria Chavarin: Watercolor Landscape

Anonymous: Crying
Collage with anatomy and book scraps.

Anahi Alcala: Physically Unharmed

Anonymous: Flowers of Amber
Picture of steam engine train.

Jennifer Carlson: Head in the Clouds
Drawing of someone waiting for train.

Anonymous: Crash

Anonymous: Two Gauntlets, One Goal

Anonymous: Altered by the Past

Clarence De Guzman: Cloudy Morning
Mask with splatter paint.

Jaylen Wells: Messy Truth
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a rabbit surrounded by desert flowers.

Anonymous: Desert Flower

Anonymous: Growth of Hope
Portrait drawing of an older man.

Una Reyes: Una Luz Reyes rendition of St

Anonymous: Seeing Blossoms

Anonymous: Church
A drawing of a person walking towards a giant pair of ribs. There is a dog walking with the person.

Anonymous: Discovery
A man in profile with a long tongue.

Anonymous: Venom

Maria Guayara: Is it you or him in the mirror?

Trissa Tsang: In the clouds
An acrylic painting of a tree blowing in the wind. There is a blue sky with clouds in the background. The tree is standing on green grass beside a blue body of water.

Anonymous: Windy City

Anonymous: Sunny Octopus

Camille Daley: Better Together
A student gives two thumbs up. To his left, a student looks to the left. To his right, two students look down to the right.

Anonymous: P R I D E

Katherine Valerio: Portrait of Kehinde Wiley

Anonymous: Melodic Reflections
Pants sewn together using a floral patterned fabric. The flowers are red and pink and the background is tan.

Anonymous: Floral Blanket Pants
Painting of a beach.

Paige Meegan: Daytona Beach

Amy Najera: Portrait of Frida Kahlo
A watercolor painting of a dragon embracing a heart organ. There is a cigarette close to the dragon as it embraces the heart.

Anonymous: Health

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled II

Anonymous: Deflated Cube Vase

Dianna Miguel: KAMI!
Strips of painted paper that alternate between two images of a woman.

Mayra Jimenez: What Makes You Stay Awake? Stress.

Anonymous: Untitled

Margareth Cervantes: A Slice of Summer

Caius Boynton: Mina and the Mouse
A collage of Wednesday Adams at the center. The background has various paper cutouts in silver, black and purple. There are 2 safety pins. One is adhering a piece of black cloth.

Anonymous: Wednesday Addams
painting of a blue teapot

Jaclyn Manning: Teapot Blues

Amna Trebovic: On and Off the Court

Anonymous: Untitled

Sonia Urbina: Stolen Innocence
Collage of a cherry tree and a garden with a butterfly.

Anonymous: Sunny Day

Madeline Yundt: Untitled
A painting of a zoomed in eyeball with eyelashes and a tear coming down. The painting is green, white and pink.

Anonymous: Emerald Eyes

Anahi Alcala: Wake Up

Anonymous: Graceful Arcs
Fabric textile resembling a sunset.

Mia Schlessinger: Untitled

Sofia Aguilar – 100 Lost Souls

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Why’d the octopus cross the river?
A person drawn 3 times. One is facing forward holding an art tool. Another one is facing the right side holding an Ipad and stylus. The last one is facing the right side holding another art tool.

Anonymous: 150 Hours
Painting of a skull.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Maeve Day
Abstract painting

Margot Lavie: Untitled

Nicholaus Asiyanbi: Degenerate’s Paradise
A yellow, blue, green and black linocut reduction print of a pair of glasses. Inside the glasses view is an Addison street sign and a teddy bear. There is a sun in the background corner and eyes that are open and shut.

Sharon Oladapo: Untitled
Red flowers and two kittens.

Auren Boynton: Under Red Peonies

Kathryn Warren: Anxiety

Anonymous: Multicolor Bucket
Monster and a german shepard.

Chloe Mitchell: Monsters in our World
A bull charges an alligator.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Sofia Comas: Accretion
A three legged bowl with a shallow lip.

Anonymous: Aztec Bowl

Anonymous: Contamination

Josephine Martorana: Hurt

Anonymous: Tiger
painting of a diner

Jaclyn Manning: “A Lick of Childhood.”

Sainabu Akinlolu: Endless Fall
Painting made up of lines.

Shamya Butler: Untitled

Anonymous: Double Portrait

Anonymous: Inverted

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: Buena Suerte Hija

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a geometric character with sharp teeth. The character has blue and purple.

Anonymous: Color Shape
Abstract splatter portrait art.

Julieana Cosajay: Narcissist
A round metal with mountains, trees and a bear.

Niamh Hughes: Chasing the Peaks

Yareli Vaquera : Ayuda
Orange and blue abstract painting.

Daja Jackson: Ocean Vs Fire
Black and white photo of a lighthouse.

Jake Pridgen: From one end of the pier
Ceramic Thank you plastic bag.

Alina Calatayud: Thank You
A three dimensional piece of a bust with plants around it.

Anonymous: The Beauty of Femininity
A painting of a sunset along the beach.

Anonymous: Beachside Sunset

Anonymous: Conch and Her Cave

Anonymous: Untitled 1

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Crowd of people, all with different backgrounds and cultures
A mixed media artpiece of an American Flag with 1 star. There are written words around the star reading "In God We Trust."

Anonymous: In God We Trust
Illustration of a city and mountain landscape with bright colors.

Daniella Xu: Dusk

Anonymous: Untitled

Sofia Aguilar – Maneater
A painting of two body figures at the center hugging each other closely. Surrounding them is a white triangle pattern on a black background. The background has circles that are painted red and yellow.

Anonymous: Untitled

Joseph Morco: My Exploration
Photo of a boy.

Nora Campos: Day to Day
Photo of a boy.

Stephanie Manzo: Eddie
Painting of a dog.

Paige Meegan: Daisy

Anonymous: Difference
A person playing a bagpipe.

Eoin McNamara: The Uilleann Piper

Anonymous: Present-day flowers
A drawing of a top-down view of a person crying. On their head is a red pattern that spills onto the persons hands.

Anonymous: Break In

Anonymous: Bowie
Cartoon whale underwater.

Nikki Pham: Deep Sea Whale
A collage of a house in front of mountains.

Jazleen Esquivel: Home
A rounded oval clay piece with a white angel.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled 2
Hand in a ring light.

Alex Chitnis: The World is in Your Palms

Anonymous: Chili snake

Zoe Crooks: Torn Away and Stuck Together
A painting of a girl holding a Ukranian flag in one hand and an American flag in the other hand. On the left side there are flames. On the right side there is the Willis Tower and other Chicago buildings. She is facing the flames and city.

Anonymous: The New World
A white crewneck with a tan floral patterned sleeve.

Anonymous: Floral Crew Neck
Colorful paper mache sculpture.

Emeline Ramirez: Guía
Black and white drawing of leaves.

LaJuan Williams: Evolution of Nature

Itzel Merlos: Untitled
An Andy Warhol inspired oil pastel drawing. 4 repeated cupcakes with different vibrant colors.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Return

Camille Daley: Ghosting
Clay sculpture of a squirrel.

Patrick O’Connor: Untitled

Anonymous: Route 666

Anonymous: Kandi

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: The Fields
Pop art portrait of an older woman.

Jocelyn Ibarra: Grandmother

Salome Camelo Bocanegra: Portrait of the Weekend

Emily Moron – Devoted

Kijah Woods: Untitled

Grace Devathala: Jeremiah

Alek Klee : All for one and one for all
A blue woven piece with green leaves woven into the fiber. There is a red rectangle on the upper left corner.

Anonymous: Outwards

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled I

Anonymous: Shells of the Self
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