CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2024 Senior Portfolio 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 Scholarships.

Dark blue storms with water.

Christina Nasios: Stormy Night

Karolina Kawula: Zagunie, Laszki

Matthew Hanson: Night Bus
Disembodied eyes populate a red background with a spotlight focused on a small human figure

Karen Ramos: The Perspective.
Spots, lines with a white background and a house in the middle.

Isabella Kenny: Home
A metal piece that reflects Aztec symbolism and myth, with a red patina.

Melody Dorantes: El Poder del Amor (The Power of Love)
A detailed pen illustration of various elements related to Asian culture.

Jasmine Yau: Untitled

Azriel Villanueva: Coffee Break
Thick paint of blues and yellows with white clouds

Julia Micorek: Wish I Was There
Cultural ceramic with a tea light and family photo inside

Aeledth Ramirez Tellez: Para ellos
An embroidered rose in the blooming stage with a light yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence
Female wearing a red scrunched up dress standing in a body of water

Charlotte Ochstein: Reef Bleaching Garment
One side is with horse galloping across a field with dark blue sky and purple clouds. Other half is a drab sky with a helicopter overhead a barren field.

Daniel Barriera: Nature vs. Man-Made
A digital illustration of a bee on a red flower, against a blue cloudy sky.

Jack Clark: Bee
Black and white trees on a dusky desaturated blue sky

Christina Nasios: Traveling
A person's head is shown to be opened, containing another head inside.

Linda Bulik: INSIDE
White tray, section with CD with a circular center

Alexis Rivas: Congratulations
A person listening to music through earbuds facing the night sky.

Sarai Salinas: Home
A sculptural piece of a person with a flower head sitting cross-legged.

Emely Ramos: Ceramics

Charlotte Foster: Us
Dark center figure with white background

Nicole Rouse: Drowning
Girl with a pink dress and lights

Anthony Hernandez: Niece’s Birthday Party
Skull with an apple peering out from the scalp set on a gradient pink background with a red border

Yrva Desormeaux: The “Perfect” Student
Cabinet with representations of different rooms inside

Macy O’Donnell: Rooms
Close-up shot of an eye

Anais Jones: Happy

Jasmine Cline: Peace of Mind
Black background with white outlines of a family

Sakari Zephier: Family Lines
Person on their phone on the toilet with a scale, hair tie, towel, and hairbrush on the floor

Karina Vargas: Bathroom Break
A dark face created from plaster with red dripping from the eyes and nose to represent blood.

Jonah Arnold: Untitled
A clay piece with a red crab outline on it.

Veronica Bastek: Crabby
Tree with orange spirals with an gold paint.

Marianna Mosz: Family Tree

Jaritzi Villegas: PROVECHO!

Kiana Pan: Man-made Witness
A sculpture of a frog resting on a lily-pad, within a lily-pad shaped pond.

Emily Chung: Leafy Harmony
A young hand reaching towards a blank white drink amongst detailed black and white renderings of different drinks.

Edwin Santana: Untitled
Portrait of a woman of color

Tamia Criss: Internal Conflict
Abstract blue, yellow, and red cubes stacked on one another

Adnan Muminhodzic: Watercolor
Person wearing grey hoodie and scoop neck shirt putting their hands through their hair

Tamia Criss: Tay

Donovan Chan: The Endless Now Duology
Stacked carrots

Guadalupe Miranda: Raices
Older woman sewing designs on fabric

Saskya Lema Lema: Warmi Awana
Black workpants with white printed letters "CDD", shown to be designed by "Geneva Studios".

Rafael Villasenor: Prosperity by Geneva Studios
A gold box holding a clock, framed flower, plate, religious statue, and a bell

Nicki Ta: Goodwill
Tall figure curing with city.

Katie Kaukialo: Solitude Creates Peace of Mind
Plethora of neon green, pink, blues, and purples coloring anatomical pelvis with insect wings and antenna

Jiayi Chen: Pelvis and Newborn
Set of 3 apartment complexes with a human female torso coming out of the top of the second building. Al in a monochromatic red color scheme

Nico Stafford: bodycomplex
Person with a yellow shirt and blue jeans in front of the planet Earth with a feather sticking out of its head.

Zania Watson: Take Me Back Home
View of someone holding up a camera through a public bike rack

Jathen Roman: View of Art
Turtle in blue water

Lia Rodriguez: How Can Tragedy Be Beautiful?

Nicolas Cabrera: Skullution Animation
Red cardinal set on a stark black background

Garry Kuhlmann: Anger Incarnate
Forest with fire

Lucia Urbaszewski: Burning Forest
Perspective of a Chicago street at night

Sofia Bush: Old Town Silence
Slow 10 MPH under a bridge

Jonathan Pedraza: Pedrazaslow
White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled
Little girl on a toy on the sidewalk

Jumani Rogers: Jurni’s Journey
Backpack put into a shopping cart on a field of grass

Seamus Moore: Absurd
A drawing of shops on a street, with a person figure lying on the ground with a red circle on their chest.

Janelle Delangel: Back of the Yards
A colorful piece with a girl in a pink dress looking up at a planet and star filled sky.

Sky Asamoah: Otherworldly
Two faces on line work and dark background

Rei Lurie: Retro Emotions
Family of three with a blue silhouette of a father with a blue background colored in to mimic a child's drawing

Alexandra Force: Repressed Memories
Blue and purple plants and flowers layered to create a wave.

Jessica Krklus: Wave
Digital elements drawn on top of a photo of a sketchbook with drawings next to a manga novel.

Jae Mccallum: EXml
Airplane flies through clouds with buildings peering through and people pointing down at the plane

Harper Norman: Plane Travel
Star night with yellow moon and text

Sarai Roman: First Love/ Late Spring
A digital illustration of a person with audio editing imagery within their head against an abstract pink background.

YosiYah YisraEL: Music in my mind
Penguin in a suit and hat

Cole Kirk: Who’s in Paris
Collage work of a desert and horses with cowboys.

Agata Siwninska: A Trip
Embroidered rose in its closed state against a slightly yellow tinted background.

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood
Collage of a window view of a vespa outside, with indoor elements of a helmet on a table.

Elena Gerick: Bedroom View
An embroidered bloomed rose with a yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adulthood

Chloe Mitchell: Childhood Home
Painting of a street in monochrome red

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 1
Eyeball with mushroom, butterfly and mouth piece.

Lyric Roy: Untitled
White dog sitting on couch in front of curtain and window

Rosalinda Dejesus: Prince
Vase half filled with blooming radiant flowers, and the other half with wilted ones.

Emily Chung: Racially Me

Magdalena Tomaszewski: Untitled
Groups of birds huddled together in a cage, one bird in the center is missing feathers

Molly Fitzgerald: Crowded
A collage of a landscape view of a cemetery at night.

Zora Alleyne: Landscape Collage
A person looking into a broken mirror

Sam Meece-Potowski: Fractured Portrait
Small child with dark eyes and hair looking at the camera with figures behind

Yaretzi Cornelio: Angles
Cats shown inside of the windows of a rocket in space, with planets and stars in the distance.

Amy Diamond: Extra-fur-estrial
Hand gripping a small bird in its palm

Molly Fitzgerald: Grasp
Rapper Young Thug on two sides of the paper, one side he is upside down

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug
Large magenta tulips overhanging a small crayon-doodle image of the same flower

Olivia Kluska: Projections
Blue tones of a bedroom with toys

Miryam Garcia: Untitled
3 story building

Ashley Calderon: Untitled
Person laying on a desk

Arlette Sanchez: No Context
Grey skyline, Christmas tree with elf.

Camila Penaranda: My First Christmas
Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled
Illuminated restaurant signs in Chinatown.

Arianna Bodini: Chinatown Lights
Oranges of a portrait with glasses.

Amani Mohammad: Untitled
Moody depiction of trash flooding our waters

Kiana Pan: My Ocean, My Home
Large greenery with pink tree and arch

Jovanny Sostenes: The Wedding
A black and white photo of a person walking on a street between buildings on a snowy day.

Alyssa Calderon: Snowfall
A sculpture of a hybrid between a raccoon and an otter.

Macy O’Donnell: Raccotter
Motion shot of train passing by

Sam Matznick: Mirror on the Train
A collage incorporating journal writing and photos juxtaposed against it.

Harrison Brennan: Luca all Over
To killer whales in dark blue water and mountains

Aleena Corral: Leaping Orca
A printmaking triptych depicting eggs in a pan.

Thomas Brumley: Breakfast
A necklace created by adding red and black elements to a bottle cap.

Zora Alleyne: Sangria
A digital depiction of a church with some elements being "incomplete" by being rendered in white.

Kimberly Arroyo: Untitled
Train line with buildings from above view

Arthur Hajnos: Chicago Blue Line
Valiant samurai on the back of a maip dinosaur

Nived Karthik: Maip Rider
Clay doll house with windows and a candle.

Teresa Geschrey: Dollhaus
Disembodied hands hold up a crinkled paper inside a ring of bright white light.

Alex Land: The Mirrored Map
A photo taken from a dark environment indoors, showing the silhouettes of a line of people against a window that gives a view to trees outside.

Eliana Frost: Birds on a Wire
Green figure with pink flowers and vines.

Johanna Guerrero: Untitled
Angry dog look down at bowl outlined in green with the words "Super Groovy" plastered in front

Daniel Salas-Alvarez: Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You
A chair with a blanket draped over the back, with a notebook and pencil on the seat.

Zhouqi Shao: All Is Ready
Large deep ocean creature approaching a small fish in front of a stark white background.

August Santoro: Prey
Skateboard with Greek Mythology elements

Janelli Garcia: Helios
3 buildings with blue sky

Ashley Calderon: Untitled
Comic book outline with oranges and people

Aidan Olson: Brother’s Quarrel
A subject with decorations in her afro hairstyle, and party decorations laid out around her hair.

Ty-Carmel Elsa: Hair deco
Galactic imagery juxtaposed on folded squares and triangles composing a larger piece.

Nathaniel Ramirez: Space Travel

Nicki Ta: Goodwill
A photo of beekeepers working at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Gianna Christensen: Honey, I’m Home
Bones represent fossil fuels going through an engine and dripping out at the bottom

John Davila: Extinction Installation Artwork
Girl with black background with stars.

Laura Solis: Night Traveler
Two old men sitting on a CTA with a grainy filter over top

Stephanie Mendoza: Antique Memories – Baldies
Person feeding a small campfire

Javier Martinez: Urban
Paper cut out of pink and blue girl

Galia Quezada: Untitled
A golden decorated stage painted with acrylic and gouache.

Apolonia Garcia: Bystanders
Birthday cake with blue table cloth.

Valeria Izaguirre: Nostalgia
A colorful rendering of two faces meant to represent two perspectives of one person.

Nashaley Aragones: Untitled
Drawing with color pencil with several items in a room

Kellyn Chavez: Untitled
Two women hugging in black and white photo

Serena Coleman: Untitled
Bird eating a nut on dirt with round grey stones in the background

Amri Rodriguez: Survival
A pen illustration of complex patterns portraying a coral reef.

Angela Batcheller: Psychedelic Coral Reef
Close-up of a face looking up with DNA double helixes as veins in the eyes

Kostandina Goritsan: Hellenic DNA

Isabella Romero: Flower
Orange room with gril and orange cat.

Jacqueline Montanez: Late Night Shift
Grey line work with color shapes and figure.

Keagan Ounsombath: Untitled
A make-up look with blue hair resembling supernatural imagery.

Kevannah Berry: Alien superstar
Alter with Virgin Mary and candles.

Marlen Hernandez: Untitled
Bright yellows, oranges, reds, and blacks used to show a cat sitting amongst different ingredients.

Ruby Reddy: Sous-Chef
Loteria card, pan dulce, with coffee and makeup.

Karina Gonzalez: Mamá
Purple flowers

Guadalupe Miranda: Morada
A juxtaposition of different words and imagery relating to the police in black, white, and red.

Askia Bullie: Who do we call?
A pen and color pencil illustration of a building, with people walking outside and the colorful word "Cuitzeo".

Giselle Zacarias: Mi Pueblito Magico
Digital drawing of a person with a yellow jacket and a helmet with imagery inside it.

Cameron Chinn: Killie Billy
Mix of music notes, feathers, scribbles with an eye in the center

Mia Morales: You is EYE
Grey monotone building with bright yellow sun and graffiti style text that says "Brighton Park" and "Rockwell"

Mia Santoyo: Rockwell Street

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan
Tryptic sunset, outline of cityscape, and butterflies.

Gabriela Murcia: Murcia_Gabriela
Wooden board with dancer and flowers around her.

Jane Smith: Center Stage Roses
Person working on a table with pictures on the wall

Angelina Lemke: Untitled
Crochet vinyl with Black woman on the cover

Naomi Man: OVERLOOKED
Blue light with orange background

Nicolo Valentino: Half and Half
Horizon view of a neighborhood

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 2

Maya Bernal: Tarot Cards of Fear
A photo of a side of a house with a forest background.

Aaron Bacon: Untitled
Woman laying in a body of water wrapped in vines

Illiana Torres: Bluebellvine
Paintings on various cut canvases that depict peoples' faces alike to ones they make in mirrors.

Jemma Wygodny: Mirrors
A collage of different imagery and pieces of writing.

Jenavieve Savoy: Home
Tree with small white figures and rain fall.

Emilia Mleczek: Rainfall
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