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.

pop art portrait, red head

Jessenia Davila: “I can’t believe you like Coca-Cola!”
Two faces with their eyes closed in a ying yang-like position.

Brenda Dickerson: Doppelganger
Illustration of cats as humans riding the train.

Schantelle K Alonzo: Untitled
6 panels of portrait

Diana Najera: Self Still
kitten with blue background

Rosa Barcenas: Kitten Love
Multimedia illustration of the bond between humans and animals.

Cecilia Budzyn: Clare and Rodney
Bowl

Talia Mims: Bowl
Black and white drawing of person with dark hair, dark shirt, and large black glasses

Ivette Ramirez: Untitled
Long exposure image of a grandmother and a figure moving in the background of a living room

Esperanza Rivera: Grandma
Photo of pair of hands laid on-top one another with rings, bracelet, and watch in view

DeAndrea Carr: Hands
Wire contour self portrait

Anonymous: Wire Portrait
Cat graphic

Jaden Williams: Untitled
Cartoon of a wolf sitting on a cliff looking at a sunset

Sophia Sherline: Routine
Red dyed shirt with yellow sleeves; various body shapes across the fabric

Anonymous: Frankenstein Shirt
Triptych of three saint-like women in purples, yellows, and reds

Nia Langley: The Three Graces
Toy child peeking into the left side of the frame

Group Compilation: Untitled
pencil illustration of person wearing a stocking cap and holding a pony toy.

Priscilla Mercado: Self-Portrait
pencil illustration

Sara Gitner: Untitled
digital illustration

Darryl Wedgeworth: Irradiate
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
A black and white drawing of a creature

Demarcel Davenport: What Can They Say?
Photo of boat and reflections

Rem Johannknecht: Waterline
Scratchboard illustration of lion

Anonymous: Royalty
Blue pen illustration of a grandma with her sister and brothers in Mexico.

Angelica Villagomez: Los Hermanos Herrera
Embroidery on white fabric of 3 groups of people standing together

Anonymous: Fading
Graphic of a dad with two children

Skylar Law: Nostalgia
Brown spraypainted bust of the Statue of Liberty

Sarah Byrne: Untitled
Hands playing a piano from the top down

Beata Semeniuk: Untitled
Abstract photograph of a group of students sitting on the ground

Rachel Bowman: Chrysalis Elixir
A floating figurine trapped inside a glass mason jar with fake clouds overhead and a baby blue background

Mia Lewis: Imagined Spaces (trapped)
Photo of girl with veil over her face

Rachel Nguyen: Gilded Oppression
Black and white photograph of a dog inside of a laundry basket

Catherine: Trapped
pencil on paper

Enrique Sanchez: Shirt
Drawing of nude life figure on a white cloth, arm behind back

Stephanie Simpson: Lounging Nude
illustration

Sam Zajczenko: Edward
Pilsen sigh and tattooed hand

Angela Samano: Pilsen is Not For Sale
Photo of ballerina in the rain

Ella Bullock: Rain Dance
Drawing of person in zebra costume leaning against the wall of a pasta restaurant at night.

Metzli Castellanos: Palm Tree, Zebra, Pasta
Painting of streets of Mexico

Bryan Dominguez: Untitled
Illustration about being safe around Metra train tracks.

Anonymous: Taking the Metra
Illustration of collage portrait images torn and rearranged together.

Talia Fidler: Uncovered
Light brown horizon with a dark brown foreground, a shape on the horizon sending off a smoke signal

Owen Somers: Sound Poem
Abstract painting with thick brush strokes

Adrian Cieluch: 21st Century
Portrait with portions colored in, and a black and white patterned background

Isabella Davila: Duality of Me
Black and white drawing of close-up of eye

Lennie Knapp: Still Life Eye
Image of mushrooms with Alice in Wonderland text on them.

Sophia Rosenthal: Eat Me
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
Scratchboard illustration of two foxes with noses touching

Marisa Carreras: Young Love
mixed media piece

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Colorful abstract image

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

Isabella Wietrzak: Monster Mouth
Painting of streets of Mexico

Bryan Dominguez: Untitled
Converse shoes underneath a school desk

Julian Alarcon: Stay if You Don’t Mind
A digital artwork of a bedroom scene of a bed, window, plants, and stuffed animals.

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Abbys Comfy Cozy Place
Front view of a colored nude life figure drawing

Emmia Gearon: Seated Blue Nude
Multimedia illustration of Robin Williams.

Maia Palomar: Formerly Known as Williams
Flower in foreground with a subject dressed in a blue coat turned away from viewer

Mitzin Bartolo: Temperature Still Life
Colored life drawing of a woman's backside sitting in a chair with a cloth draped behind her

Elizabeth Curry: Seated Blue Nude
Portrait of Marsha P Johnson dressed in purple. Blue background with Say Her Name written.

Anonymous: A portrait of Marsha P Johnson
Sculpture of person with aluminum cans

Antonio Nieto: A Moment
Black and white drawing of person with dark, short hair holding a pencil and finger over their mouth

Kibito Ariyoshi: Nontitle
6-panel comic with fantastical creatures

Victor Luis Garcia: Pages from Alfie
Silhouette of a person riding a horse on a pink and red background

Victoria Greco: A Dark Horse’s Journey at Dawn
Red light illuminates a figure with multiple heads

Saulo Romero: Ishouldmaybegoongothrough
digital illustration

Yisel Vicuna: Bella’s 16th Birthday Party
"Ha Ha!" in alternating red and blue letters in a yellow burst, comic book style.

Jessenia Davila: Ha Ha!
Wire mobile with torsos of different body types.

Anonymous: Body Positivity Mobile
A portrait of a woman with long, dark hair and a blue background with Egyptian symbols and heiroglyphics

Cache King: QUEEN
This is where we come from

Amalachukwu Okoye: Mother Africa
Photograph of orange hued rock formations.

Matthew Balber: Rockslide
digital illustration

Vance Lira: Vances Comfy Cozy Place
scratch board cub

Anonymous: Cub
self portrait illustration

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Blue background with an illustration of a subject created by a connected cut-out black paper

A’marion Kerr: Cut Paper Illustration
photography

Charlie Voyda: Untitled
Painting of the Virgin Mary

Alessandra Lopez: La Virgencita
A mixed media artwork on a wall with clouds and words that say "Peace on Earth".

Alexis Diggs: With All of Us!
graphic of a room with characters

Robin Lockhart: Home Away From Home
mask

Nade Hayes: Sorrow
Multimedia piece of a divine scene of angels and holy figures.

Brandy Leavy: The Divine
Illustration of 4 Symbiosis Characters

Aidan Bell: Symbiosis Civilians
Painting of the city of Prague

Mary Kate Clancy: Prague in a Dream
Bedroom scene with floral wallpaper

Arlo Schafman: Fridge Day
paint on canvas

Clair DeYoung: No Rest For the Reluctant
Rocks and greenery surround a setting of a small table and mushroom

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

Conner Schmieg: Repentance
digital illustration

Lilian Gragert: Lilys Comfy Cozy Place
photography series

Angelina Cofer: Untitled
Portrait of girl with black hair and green bangs on a black blackground with large pink flowers

Isabel Fettes: Untitled
Painting of a body on a multicolored, abstract background

Evelyn Mindel: Faces
3 panel comic b&w 2 kids in 3rd panel

John Shalinath: Magical Adventure
fire angel sculpture

Claudia Crespo-Pecunia: Fire Angel
Black and white cut out visual of figure piercing their ear and an upset figure in the background

Anonymous: Tell Me A Story
Painting of ram, in blue, on grass in front of white sky.

Mitch Glidersleeve: Blue Ram
Drawing of persons face, nose up, next to drawing of person's torso, nose to mid-shoulder

Monserrat Garfias: Half of You
Clear triangular cut pieces attached to a clear rectangular prism

Hailey Blair: Fractures
Black baseball helmet flipped upside down with blue and orange flowers emerging on a spring.

Alicia Figueroa: Body
Black and white drawing of person with dark hair wearing black and white turtleneck and necklace.

Anonymous: Temporary Being
Portrait illustration of a figure surrounded by red curving lines and eyes.

Zoë Gordon: Pretium
Collage drawing of signage and postcards

Vanessa Cano: Don’t Gentrify My Little Village
Relief Ceramic Sculpture

Abigail Tarbox: Relief Ceramic Sculpture
Side profile illustrationn of boy

Andreen Marie Isidoro: Us vs. The World
digital photography

Yasmeen Quiñones: Ying Yang
Yellow button up shirt with figures of dogs painted on the front and side arm

Imani Saucedo: Frankenstein Shirt
Abstract sculpture of white lines in a shoe-like form.

Melanie Avila: Introspection
Anime character creation

Yariancis Acosta: Untitled
White and red ashtray in shape of lungs with red outline bubbles, black splatter

Sasse Engel: Lungs Ashtray
Graphic of a girl in the rain

Skye Wang: Girl in Rain
Sculpture of white squid with decorative pattern on body

Clarissa Bonilla: Squid
Painting of a stream, mountain, and trees with the Simpsons in the foreground

Robynn Willis: Untitled
Photo of girl with mask and gloves

Le Nguyen: Reenacting Young Woman with Lily by To Ngoc Van
Spacial design of an imagined green and natural scene

Kallisti (Al) Kupferer: Imagined Spaces (landscape)
Black and white photo of girl's face

Frances Depke: Embroidered Leaves
black and white drawing of a punching fist surrounded by mosaic of broken, orange fragments

Kamaldeen Akorede: Limit Breaker
Three Loteria game cards inserted into a holder shaped as a hand, surrounded by figurines and a red drape

Celia Hannan: Personal Still Life
Image of end car of CTA Cermak el train.

Enya Terry: Chapter 17, The Black Burden
Children gathered in a circle holding guns, with adults supervising

Stephanie Simpson: Guns in America
Wire contour self portrait

Anonymous: Wire Portrait
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
Embroidery of a house on white fabric

Mary Martorano: Where the Heart Is
digital photography

Claire Lyons: Whole Foods
Black and white pencil drawing of a service dog

Edana Lynch: Service Dog
Three green dinosaurs climbing on buildings and landscape, watercolor

Vivian Nguyen: Amalfi Coast
Digitally manipulated photo

Melissa Lazaro: Horizons
Dark photograph of a teen holding a mask over their face

Jersey Benjamin: Untitled
Black and white cut out visual of figure piercing their ear and an upset figure in the background

Anonymous: Tell Me A Story
A table with a scale weighing meat, and other produce on a table

Anonymous: Imagined Spaces (butcher)
Six three dimensional artworks with typography on them

Ranya Dano: The Epitome of Beauty
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
Image of orang and brown butterfly with a red and black spackled background; a yellow decorative border

Jenna Lozano: Itzpapalotl
Portrait of a woman with black hair on a blue background with pink and yellow flowers.

Brendon Lovstad: Untitled
Photograph of orange fall leaf on tree.

Flavio Martin: Fall
photography

Anonymous: Untitled
A colorful mosaic with shapes and patterns.

Alexis Diggs, Ceyerra Smith, and Dashawn Williams: Adding to the Past!
Illustration of fox diving into crowd at concert

Aaron Bergante: Fox, Rock N Roll, Thrill
goat in a suit

Jaime Quevedo: GOAT
illustration

Samantha Franco: Two-sided gas mask
mixed media piece

Omayra Saez: Mask of Society
Drawing of skull with flowers growing out of it

Alexis Moreno: Welcome Home
Dark pencil drawing of a face, focused on the eye

Anonymous: Abstract 1
pencil on paper illustration

Enrique Sanchez: Untitled
photography

Sabrina Correa: Untitled
Realistic sculpture of cake

Aliya Segura: We Want Cake

Carmen Jacobo: Chicago be Like
orange sky water sand

Angie Marquez: Vibes
A black and white portrait drawing of a man.

Antionette Wallace: Half & Half of Value
Graphic design book cover of Herokiller.

Caleb Capuli: Herokiller Book Cover
screenprint of heart with lines around it. Blue.

Jessica Nunez: Symbolic Print
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
Photo of two young women with illustrated faces

Adele Weiss: Dripping Imagination
Clay sculpture of two creatures looking opposite directions

Ava Eguia: Non-Functional Vessel
Candyland game board in background with toy figurines in the foreground

Miranda Sustaita: Imagined Spaces (candyland)
Black and white skull on a rainbow background with black and white images emerging from the skull

Angelina Villarreal: Til the End of Time
Abstract drawing of an eye ball and nose in blue clouds

Ashley Barrios: Darkness
Graphic with text and multiple tamagotchis with a hotline number

Anonymous: Children Don’t Have Reset Buttons
sculpture

Jairam Narvez-Miranda: Untitled

Tess Vega: Mindscape
Digital portrait of a woman in front of a pink background.

Leslie Navarro: Low Poly – The Woman
Triptych painting

Gianna Canieso: Family Migration Story
Dark pencil drawing of a face, focused on the eye

Anonymous: Abstract 1
digital illustration

Julia Davis: Take Some Time For Yourself
Black and white photograph of a CTA train cart with a man's reflection in the window.

Carlos Carretero: Untitled
digital photography

Ayanna Reeves-Woodson: Sparklers
Design with flowers

Meredith Joncha: Color Study
Black and white trees

Brynn Walker: Contrast
A diptych artwork with bright, colorful, wavy lines and partial faces looking out.

Sarah Geoghegan: PAST PRESENT FUTURE
Depiction of scene from the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Isabelle Fabila Dizon: Untitled
Black and white photograph of person in crop field.

Stephanie Maldonado: Working on the Field
The Kiss recreation

Le Nguyen: Reenacting The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
Circle cut in half with black seeds in the center, and a hot pink skin, with green leaves

Zaylah De La Torre: Speculative Vexillology
Illustration of the artist folding her baby clothes.

Dalila Mendez: Untitled
mixed media piece

Juan de Dios Rodriguez: Slurp
Painting of three floating heads blending together

Brenna Hurtado: Los Dios
Painting of a girl with words around her

Alyssa Argent: Skye
Drawing of a colorful figure

Sueyin Gonzalez: Untitled
A surreal artwork with two large eyes that have colors dripping from them and two large mouths.

Brenda Dickerson: DOUBLE VISION
Photograph of white illustrations on dark rocks placed in sand.

Anonymous: Humble Abode
woodblock print

Anonymous: Untitled
Ceramic sculpture of nose with green snot coming out of the right nostril

Ari Antos: Sneeze
Black and white photograph of person laying across another's lap with books behind them.

Anonymous: Untitled
Rendering of letters the spell QUARANTINE on a building

Fionn Hui: Quarantine Activities
woodblock print

Yenedith Sanchez: Dazed
Painting of a lemon on a light colored table and black background

Aubrey Buckley: Lemon Drop
black and white comic panels

Cheline Moncano: The Pandemic
Photograph of an amusement park surrounded by palm trees.

Ella Sharba: Palm Palette
A set of two dark photographs of people in the dark with just minimal light on each figure

Edmonde Olongo: Untitled
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
Pair of lungs with popcorn and juul pods inside

Keira Toborg: Popcorn Lung
Animal skull surrounded by stones, a feather, and greenery

Anonymous: Personal Still Life
Illustration of dancers

Moriah Mesa: Dance Chicago
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