CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2020 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.

Six three dimensional artworks with typography on them

Ranya Dano: The Epitome of Beauty
Abstract drawing of an eye ball and nose in blue clouds

Ashley Barrios: Darkness
Painting of man holding his head on the left, recreation of image with photograph and found objects on the right.

Melanie Avila: Reenacting Le Désespéré by Gustave Courbet
Black and white photo of girl's face

Frances Depke: Embroidered Leaves
woodblock print

Anonymous: Untitled
Wire contour self portrait

Anonymous: Wire Portrait
Graphic of a girl in the rain

Skye Wang: Girl in Rain
A diptych artwork with bright, colorful, wavy lines and partial faces looking out.

Sarah Geoghegan: PAST PRESENT FUTURE
Red dyed shirt with yellow sleeves; various body shapes across the fabric

Anonymous: Frankenstein Shirt
Black and white photograph of a CTA train cart with a man's reflection in the window.

Carlos Carretero: Untitled
digital illustration

Yisel Vicuna: Bella’s 16th Birthday Party
Black and white drawing of person with dark hair, dark shirt, and large black glasses

Ivette Ramirez: Untitled
Photo of two young women with illustrated faces

Adele Weiss: Dripping Imagination
graphic of a room with characters

Robin Lockhart: Home Away From Home
pencil illustration of person wearing a stocking cap and holding a pony toy.

Priscilla Mercado: Self-Portrait
Colorful abstract image

Ana Lucia Consater: Stress
Leg and foot with monster teeth spiraling across it

Isabella Wietrzak: Monster Mouth
Bedroom scene with floral wallpaper

Arlo Schafman: Fridge Day
Wire mobile with torsos of different body types.

Anonymous: Body Positivity Mobile
Colored life drawing of a woman's backside sitting in a chair with a cloth draped behind her

Elizabeth Curry: Seated Blue Nude
Photograph of orange hued rock formations.

Matthew Balber: Rockslide
Children gathered in a circle holding guns, with adults supervising

Stephanie Simpson: Guns in America
Silhouette of a person riding a horse on a pink and red background

Victoria Greco: A Dark Horse’s Journey at Dawn
A mixed media artwork on a wall with clouds and words that say "Peace on Earth".

Alexis Diggs: With All of Us!
Rocks and greenery surround a setting of a small table and mushroom

Sadie Soria: Untitled
Illustration of collage portrait images torn and rearranged together.

Talia Fidler: Uncovered
photography

Sabrina Correa: Untitled
The Kiss recreation

Le Nguyen: Reenacting The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
Black and white photograph of person laying across another's lap with books behind them.

Anonymous: Untitled
Pair of lungs with popcorn and juul pods inside

Keira Toborg: Popcorn Lung
Photo of pair of hands laid on-top one another with rings, bracelet, and watch in view

DeAndrea Carr: Hands
Embroidery on white fabric of 3 groups of people standing together

Anonymous: Fading
screenprint of heart with lines around it. Blue.

Jessica Nunez: Symbolic Print
digital photography

Yasmeen Quiñones: Ying Yang
Black baseball helmet flipped upside down with blue and orange flowers emerging on a spring.

Alicia Figueroa: Body
Multimedia illustration of the bond between humans and animals.

Cecilia Budzyn: Clare and Rodney
3 panel comic b&w 2 kids in 3rd panel

John Shalinath: Magical Adventure
Graphic design book cover of Herokiller.

Caleb Capuli: Herokiller Book Cover
Portrait of girl with black hair and green bangs on a black blackground with large pink flowers

Isabel Fettes: Untitled
Black and white trees

Brynn Walker: Contrast
Realistic sculpture of cake

Aliya Segura: We Want Cake
6-panel comic with fantastical creatures

Victor Luis Garcia: Pages from Alfie
Design with flowers

Meredith Joncha: Color Study
Clear triangular cut pieces attached to a clear rectangular prism

Hailey Blair: Fractures
Painting of a girl with words around her

Alyssa Argent: Skye
Rendering of letters the spell QUARANTINE on a building

Fionn Hui: Quarantine Activities
Side profile illustrationn of boy

Andreen Marie Isidoro: Us vs. The World
Photograph of white illustrations on dark rocks placed in sand.

Anonymous: Humble Abode
Illustration of fox diving into crowd at concert

Aaron Bergante: Fox, Rock N Roll, Thrill
This is where we come from

Amalachukwu Okoye: Mother Africa
Hot pink gradient background with a black cut out layered over top, silhouetting a skeleton taunting a subject with their head lowered on a desk

Anonymous: Tell Me A Story
Three green dinosaurs climbing on buildings and landscape, watercolor

Vivian Nguyen: Amalfi Coast
Abstract photograph of a group of students sitting on the ground

Rachel Bowman: Chrysalis Elixir
6 panels of portrait

Diana Najera: Self Still
Drawing of person in zebra costume leaning against the wall of a pasta restaurant at night.

Metzli Castellanos: Palm Tree, Zebra, Pasta
Flower in foreground with a subject dressed in a blue coat turned away from viewer

Mitzin Bartolo: Temperature Still Life
Photograph of an amusement park surrounded by palm trees.

Ella Sharba: Palm Palette
Painting of a body on a multicolored, abstract background

Evelyn Mindel: Faces
Spacial design of an imagined green and natural scene

Kallisti (Al) Kupferer: Imagined Spaces (landscape)
Cartoon of a wolf sitting on a cliff looking at a sunset

Sophia Sherline: Routine
Black and white cut out visual of figure piercing their ear and an upset figure in the background

Anonymous: Tell Me A Story
goat in a suit

Jaime Quevedo: GOAT
Black and white cut out visual of figure piercing their ear and an upset figure in the background

Anonymous: Tell Me A Story
black and white drawing of a punching fist surrounded by mosaic of broken, orange fragments

Kamaldeen Akorede: Limit Breaker
Animal skull surrounded by stones, a feather, and greenery

Anonymous: Personal Still Life
Painting of three floating heads blending together

Brenna Hurtado: Los Dios
Black and white drawing of person with dark, short hair holding a pencil and finger over their mouth

Kibito Ariyoshi: Nontitle
Front view of a colored nude life figure drawing

Emmia Gearon: Seated Blue Nude
Blue pen illustration of a grandma with her sister and brothers in Mexico.

Angelica Villagomez: Los Hermanos Herrera
White and red ashtray in shape of lungs with red outline bubbles, black splatter

Sasse Engel: Lungs Ashtray
paint on canvas

Clair DeYoung: No Rest For the Reluctant
digital illustration

Lilian Gragert: Lilys Comfy Cozy Place
digital illustration

Vance Lira: Vances Comfy Cozy Place
Image of orang and brown butterfly with a red and black spackled background; a yellow decorative border

Jenna Lozano: Itzpapalotl
Clay sculpture of two creatures looking opposite directions

Ava Eguia: Non-Functional Vessel
scratch board cub

Anonymous: Cub
Light brown horizon with a dark brown foreground, a shape on the horizon sending off a smoke signal

Owen Somers: Sound Poem
illustration

Sam Zajczenko: Edward
Portrait with portions colored in, and a black and white patterned background

Isabella Davila: Duality of Me
digital illustration

Julia Davis: Take Some Time For Yourself
mixed media piece

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Dark pencil drawing of a face, focused on the eye

Anonymous: Abstract 1
Toy child peeking into the left side of the frame

Group Compilation: Untitled
Sculpture of white squid with decorative pattern on body

Clarissa Bonilla: Squid
A table with a scale weighing meat, and other produce on a table

Anonymous: Imagined Spaces (butcher)
mixed media piece

Omayra Saez: Mask of Society
Painting of ram, in blue, on grass in front of white sky.

Mitch Glidersleeve: Blue Ram
A set of two dark photographs of people in the dark with just minimal light on each figure

Edmonde Olongo: Untitled
Painting of streets of Mexico

Bryan Dominguez: Untitled
Black and white pencil drawing of a service dog

Edana Lynch: Service Dog
Drawing of nude life figure on a white cloth, arm behind back

Stephanie Simpson: Lounging Nude
Scratchboard illustration of lion

Anonymous: Royalty
Photo of ballerina in the rain

Ella Bullock: Rain Dance
Digital portrait of a woman in front of a pink background.

Leslie Navarro: Low Poly – The Woman

Tess Vega: Mindscape
Brown spraypainted bust of the Statue of Liberty

Sarah Byrne: Untitled
Converse shoes underneath a school desk

Julian Alarcon: Stay if You Don’t Mind
Scratchboard illustration of two foxes with noses touching

Marisa Carreras: Young Love
A photographic recreation on the right and a painting on the left of a woman wearing a head wrap and colorful dress holding her hands up near her face.

Terrence Kendrick: Next Macanay Lul
Portrait of person with dark hair and glasses, half of their face is hidden inside a hooded sweatshirt with "The Big Egg" on it.

Natalia Elumbia: The Big Egg
Illustration of 4 Symbiosis Characters

Aidan Bell: Symbiosis Civilians
Multimedia illustration of Robin Williams.

Maia Palomar: Formerly Known as Williams
Photo of boat and reflections

Rem Johannknecht: Waterline
Red light illuminates a figure with multiple heads

Saulo Romero: Ishouldmaybegoongothrough
mixed media piece

Juan de Dios Rodriguez: Slurp
photography

Charlie Voyda: Untitled
Drawing of skull with flowers growing out of it

Alexis Moreno: Welcome Home
A colorful mosaic with shapes and patterns.

Alexis Diggs, Ceyerra Smith, and Dashawn Williams: Adding to the Past!
Painting of a stream, mountain, and trees with the Simpsons in the foreground

Robynn Willis: Untitled
A portrait of a woman with long, dark hair and a blue background with Egyptian symbols and heiroglyphics

Cache King: QUEEN
Drawing of persons face, nose up, next to drawing of person's torso, nose to mid-shoulder

Monserrat Garfias: Half of You
mask

Nade Hayes: Sorrow
Dark photograph of a teen holding a mask over their face

Jersey Benjamin: Untitled
Wire contour self portrait

Anonymous: Wire Portrait
Collage drawing of signage and postcards

Vanessa Cano: Don’t Gentrify My Little Village
Illustration of dancers

Moriah Mesa: Dance Chicago
Blue background with an illustration of a subject created by a connected cut-out black paper

A’marion Kerr: Cut Paper Illustration
"Ha Ha!" in alternating red and blue letters in a yellow burst, comic book style.

Jessenia Davila: Ha Ha!
A digital artwork of a room with a girl sitting in the corner and various objects on the floor.

Faith Lasley: Faiths Comfy Cozy Place
Painting of streets of Mexico

Bryan Dominguez: Untitled
Illustration of cats as humans riding the train.

Schantelle K Alonzo: Untitled
Illustration of the artist folding her baby clothes.

Dalila Mendez: Untitled
Graphic of a dad with two children

Skylar Law: Nostalgia
pencil on paper illustration

Enrique Sanchez: Untitled
Photo of girl with veil over her face

Rachel Nguyen: Gilded Oppression
Cat graphic

Jaden Williams: Untitled
Dark pencil drawing of a face, focused on the eye

Anonymous: Abstract 1
Painting of the Virgin Mary

Alessandra Lopez: La Virgencita
photography series

Angelina Cofer: Untitled
Depiction of scene from the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Isabelle Fabila Dizon: Untitled
digital illustration

Darryl Wedgeworth: Irradiate
Graphic with text and multiple tamagotchis with a hotline number

Anonymous: Children Don’t Have Reset Buttons
Triptych painting

Gianna Canieso: Family Migration Story
Black and white skull on a rainbow background with black and white images emerging from the skull

Angelina Villarreal: Til the End of Time
Pilsen sigh and tattooed hand

Angela Samano: Pilsen is Not For Sale
orange sky water sand

Angie Marquez: Vibes
kitten with blue background

Rosa Barcenas: Kitten Love
Hands playing a piano from the top down

Beata Semeniuk: Untitled
Portrait of a woman with black hair on a blue background with pink and yellow flowers.

Brendon Lovstad: Untitled
Candyland game board in background with toy figurines in the foreground

Miranda Sustaita: Imagined Spaces (candyland)
A surreal artwork with two large eyes that have colors dripping from them and two large mouths.

Brenda Dickerson: DOUBLE VISION
Structural piece with four wired figures of breasts in reference to breast cancer and mastectomy's

Nayla Vasquez: The journey of fighting one of the most common modern devils
pop art portrait, red head

Jessenia Davila: “I can’t believe you like Coca-Cola!”
digital photography

Claire Lyons: Whole Foods
Portrait of Marsha P Johnson dressed in purple. Blue background with Say Her Name written.

Anonymous: A portrait of Marsha P Johnson
A black and white portrait drawing of a man.

Antionette Wallace: Half & Half of Value
Drawing of a colorful figure

Sueyin Gonzalez: Untitled
Colored pencil and chalk pastel illustration of a glass window of people from this generation.

Conner Schmieg: Repentance
A black and white drawing of a creature

Demarcel Davenport: What Can They Say?
Sculpture of person with aluminum cans

Antonio Nieto: A Moment
Yellow button up shirt with figures of dogs painted on the front and side arm

Imani Saucedo: Frankenstein Shirt
photography

Anonymous: Untitled
Relief Ceramic Sculpture

Abigail Tarbox: Relief Ceramic Sculpture
Ceramic sculpture of nose with green snot coming out of the right nostril

Ari Antos: Sneeze
Three Loteria game cards inserted into a holder shaped as a hand, surrounded by figurines and a red drape

Celia Hannan: Personal Still Life
Photo of girl with mask and gloves

Le Nguyen: Reenacting Young Woman with Lily by To Ngoc Van
Black and white photograph of a dog inside of a laundry basket

Catherine: Trapped
Black and white drawing of close-up of eye

Lennie Knapp: Still Life Eye
Painting of the city of Prague

Mary Kate Clancy: Prague in a Dream
Multimedia piece of a divine scene of angels and holy figures.

Brandy Leavy: The Divine
Black and white drawing of person with dark hair wearing black and white turtleneck and necklace.

Anonymous: Temporary Being
Painting of a lemon on a light colored table and black background

Aubrey Buckley: Lemon Drop
Image of end car of CTA Cermak el train.

Enya Terry: Chapter 17, The Black Burden
Long exposure image of a grandmother and a figure moving in the background of a living room

Esperanza Rivera: Grandma
Abstract painting with thick brush strokes

Adrian Cieluch: 21st Century
Image of mushrooms with Alice in Wonderland text on them.

Sophia Rosenthal: Eat Me
A floating figurine trapped inside a glass mason jar with fake clouds overhead and a baby blue background

Mia Lewis: Imagined Spaces (trapped)
woodblock print

Yenedith Sanchez: Dazed
illustration

Samantha Franco: Two-sided gas mask
pencil on paper

Enrique Sanchez: Shirt
Digitally manipulated photo

Melissa Lazaro: Horizons
self portrait illustration

Anonymous: Self Portrait
black and white comic panels

Cheline Moncano: The Pandemic
pencil illustration

Sara Gitner: Untitled
digital photography

Ayanna Reeves-Woodson: Sparklers
Photograph of orange fall leaf on tree.

Flavio Martin: Fall
Anime character creation

Yariancis Acosta: Untitled
Abstract sculpture of white lines in a shoe-like form.

Melanie Avila: Introspection
Circle cut in half with black seeds in the center, and a hot pink skin, with green leaves

Zaylah De La Torre: Speculative Vexillology
Triptych of three saint-like women in purples, yellows, and reds

Nia Langley: The Three Graces
Portrait illustration of a figure surrounded by red curving lines and eyes.

Zoë Gordon: Pretium
Illustration about being safe around Metra train tracks.

Anonymous: Taking the Metra
Two faces with their eyes closed in a ying yang-like position.

Brenda Dickerson: Doppelganger
sculpture

Jairam Narvez-Miranda: Untitled
fire angel sculpture

Claudia Crespo-Pecunia: Fire Angel

Carmen Jacobo: Chicago be Like
Embroidery of a house on white fabric

Mary Martorano: Where the Heart Is
Bowl

Talia Mims: Bowl
A digital artwork of a bedroom scene of a bed, window, plants, and stuffed animals.

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Abbys Comfy Cozy Place
Black and white photograph of person in crop field.

Stephanie Maldonado: Working on the Field
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