CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2021 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.

A bunch of figures floating on a black background and in a cube

Anonymous: Stuck at Home
Drawing of a woman wearing a headscarf with a red line across her eyes

Anonymous: Purity

Anonymous: Sunny Side Up

Anonymous: Downfall
abstract painting with green, gold, and black

Anonymous: Untitled (Tell Me a Story)
Digital drawing of red rabbit on the phone

Natalia Rozenek: A Threatening Presence
A photograph of a girl on the phone who's face is painted red and blue.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Living in the Pandemic
A green collage with a girls face and plants and butterflies

Jessie Kocur: Untitled
A digital artwork of bubbles with different scenes going on in the bubbles

Anonymous: The Bubble
drawing of jewelry on white sheet

Yessenia Martinez: Adorn
Photograph of a model of a destroyed room

Celia Hannan: The Destroyed Room
hand with 2 fingers in the little pocket of a pair of jeans

Annabel Multer: untitled

Ashley Barrios: Childhood Innocence
A graphic image of a girl smoking a cigarette and a red cloud with a black silhouette

Cassandra Alvarez: Trauma and Addiction in Native Americans
Drawing of a fork in noodles with animals

Anonymous: Power Animals
abstract drawing

Anonymous: Untitled (Make Remake)
A black and white portrait of Anthony Bourdain

Maia Palomar: Parts Unknown

Anonymous: Abstract

Taryn Landsberger: Critical Low

Jhazmin Lucero: A childs routine during a pandemic
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage
Digital drawing of person at a table in the dark with a sign that says "Don't Play with Ouija Boards" above them.

Kaley Kmiec: Don’t Play With Ouija Boards

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of a girl with three eyes and a green background

Anonymous: Protected

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of moon setting over the ocean

Anonymous: Luna
Photograph of a Black person braiding the hair of a large doll in her lap.

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of flowers and bees

Diaz Emily: Dance to survive
Paper roll sculpture

Anonymous: Black Knowledge

Anonymous: Life on a computer
A mixed media sculpture of a mannequin head with wooden spikes coming out of the face

Anonymous: :)
Digital drawing of book covers and a gameboy

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
Mask made of googly eyes

Christine Meinders: Kindermask
A rainbow background with a small moon and a black bat

Anonymous: Beautiful Bats
Mixed media of a man getting fed a pomegranate in front of a buffet of food

Angela Blanco: Untitled
digital drawing of a person in all black with a gray background

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of a colorful skeleton

Anonymous: Day of the Dead
Figure with "do not cross" tape on a rich red background

Elizabeth Kujawa: Untitled
Painting of pumpkin people in front of pumpkin houses

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of feet and rubber duck in a tub

Cesar Garcia: Afloat
Mandala of blue and red triangles and circles

Alexis Ariza: Mandala

Annabel Multer: Bread Turtle
Drawing of a bee on a sunflower with the world in the middle

Moreno Leslie: Giving Life

Anonymous: Monochromatic Landscape

Anonymous: Dwight White
A digital illustration of a mouth with pink lips and white teeth

Anonymous: Mouth

Anonymous: She Loves Me

Samantha Hasselquist: Stretched Convergence
A digital drawing of a girl holding flowers and wearing a flower crown

Anonymous: Little Miss Mistakes
Collage portrait of two figures

Rachel Deveyra: Collage Self-Portrait
A digital drawing of a blue cat

Iliana Hernandez: Cat
A woman with a large afro and a black power fist in her hair

Anonymous: Free Draw
Paint of a desk with plans and curtains

Thalia Witkovsky: 9:37 PM
A dark photo of white and orange glowing cubes

Anonymous: Hockney Joiner Lanterns
Digital drawing of people with multiple faces around them

Anonymous: DID

Anahi Alcala: A Starry Night Past New Home
A photograph of the inside of a building looking down from a top floor

Anonymous: Water Tower
A painting of a black man with words written on his body

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Men
Graphite drawing of a dragon

Anonymous: The Love
pencil drawing of woman with infant in front of window.

Jaqueline Garcia: Motherhood?
Painting of trees on a lake in front of a sunset

Anabel Perez: Rainbow Water

Anonymous: Grandma

Emma Chung: White Noise
Painting of a person with a bomb as a head

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: La bomba
Sculpture of clouds with lights in the middle and chains wrapped around

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of someone running their friend's head

Anonymous: Friendship
Colorful abstract drawing.

Anonymous: World of Colour

Haily Roman: Cluster
An abstract photograph of symmetrical shapes like an inkblot

Anonymous: Detatched

Kael Carmona: Fishbowl
Green and yellow painting with bamboo in the background

Anonymous: Extinction
A graphic design with words creating the image of an earth on fire

Arturo Garcia: Our Changing World
Pencil drawing of sunglasses, pencil, flask, keychain

Dylan Henke: Let’s Go For A Ride
A photo of a woman in a mask surrounded by slips of paper with writing

Reginae Echols: The Black Woman’s Burden
Drawing of boy with hands over his ears, with abstract tv images in the background

Anonymous: Allodoxaphobia

Nayary Delgado: Cherry Blossom Petals

Taylor Pate: The Burning of Venus

Melanie Canales: Untitled
Image of little girl with hands on her knees looking at something

Anonymous: Little Kaylen In Wonderland
A pixel drawing of frida kahlo with a black cat

Alexis Ariza: Frida Kahlo
Drawing of Godzilla with a black background

Cielo Zavala: GODZILLA
Drawing of a young girl with her hands on her face

Anonymous: Sofia
A drawing of a girl doing her makeup and her reflection in the mirror

Anonymous: Morning Ritual
drawing of eye

Anonymous: Possess

Anonymous: Untitled

Ashley Alamo: Indifference
Two blue hands raising toward a red cube with a smiley face

Veronica Timble: Glorpo Loves You
Drawing of roman figures on a mountain side with an orange sky.

Auren Boynton: Rose Oil

Anonymous: Self-Portrait showing movement and Light
An abstract sculpture with mixed materials of red, yellow, and blue

Natalie Mora: The Primary
Painting of flowers with a colorful border

Anonymous: Distraction
Graphite drawing of a girl's face up close

Anonymous: Duality
A black and white photo of a car in the snow with the trunk open

Karolina Mancilla: Untitled

Heidi Wier: The Outfit I was Wearing for Valentine’s Day
Digital drawing of two women jumping into a pool

Anonymous: Taking the Plunge
Line drawing of a profile with lines in the background

Salas Jocelyn: The Parasite of Opinion
Drawing of someone running their friend's head

Anonymous: Friendship
Photo of the light going across someone's body as they lay in a bed of white sheets

Jersey Benjamin: Elias
Drawing of art objects on a table, orange and blue

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
A landscape drawing of a lake and a tree

Emeline Ramirez: Yoakum Mixed Media Landscape

Anonymous: Personal Power

Auttum Thomas: Still Life
Drawing of faces with squiggly lines around them

Anonymous: Nine Views
painting of hands playing dominoes

Anonymous: Untitled
photograph of person behind lattice with plants

Rachel Deveyra: Plant
Ink drawing of a person's face with a second person in profile in front

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: El borracho

Anonymous: Stop Closing Your Eyes
Very colorful digital drawing of a cemetery with papel picado

Anonymous: Guanajuato

Zoe Haritos: Sweeter Than Candy
A digital illustration of a woman with her face painted like a Dia del los Muertos skull

Yoselin Mata: Day of the Dead
A portrait of a black woman with cracked wing shapes over her eyes

Anonymous: Maud

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a tree with burned and ripped book pages and an orange sun

Molly Perez: Prison on My Mind

Heidi Wier: 9
A warm drawing of a waterfall coming off a cliff with oranges and reds

Giselle Raigosa: Manai Falls, Takachiho Gorge, Japan
A painting of two girls laying together among bushes and plants

Ava Ortiz: A Kiss
Mixed Media collage of the bottom of a person's face with images coming out of their head

Camryn Gosa: Untitled
A mixed media artwork of a bird person covered in colorful feathers

Anonymous: Feather Dance
A black print of a skeleton with a tree in the background

Anonymous: Untitled
pencil drawing of person with colorful eyes

Sierra Baldwin: Starry Eyes
Newspaper headline collage

Anonymous: Read All About It

Faustyna Turek: Ignite
Butterflies and a face with blue hair and cat ears

Matthew Jeffris: Untitled
Abstract painting

Anonymous: Untitled
Black and white ink drawing of legs and a bunch of hands

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: Body

Viviana Hernandez: I Am Beautiful.

Anonymous: Just a Little Black Girl’s Dream of Success

Anonymous: Untitled
Gif of person laying on a bed screaming AAAHHHH

Olivia Kluska: Constant Pain
Watercolor of 1/2 of a person's face in front of waterfront

Edana Lynch: Self Portrait
A figure drawing from the front, back, and side of a girl with green hair

Anonymous: WRAH! T-Pose
Drawing of 3 people looking at themselves in a mirror, one with hair, one with a hat, one with no hair.

Mia Reilly-Yeh: reality? dream? reality.
A painting of orange and yellow mountains under a blue sky

Michael Dominguez: Untitled
I was not An Imposter with Among Us astronaut pained on glass in black frame.

Anonymous: Red Is Sus

Anonymous: Pheasant’s Eye
Green person leaning against pink rock with an american flag on it

Adrian Lopez: Bitter-sweet
A painting of a young woman looking to the side

Keyla Estrada: The Wandering Woman
Black and white construction paper highlighting positive/negative space

Anonymous: Positive-Negative Art
Red page with image of two hands touching each other and "painting a new black image" in black letters.

Anonymous: Douglass Self-Image Makers Group Slide Presentation

Anonymous: Critical Low
Digital drawing of blue flower with a bee in the middle

Fonseca Naomi: Laconic-Expressing Much In Few Words
Mask that looks like a flower, only exposes 1 eye

Sasse Engel: Sundaze in Drowning

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Mother
Abstract painting with light colors

Fatima Choudhry: Was I your home?
Digital drawing of a plane wing

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of building with smoke stack behind it

Anonymous: The Old Days

Kayla Beltran: Desert Skull
Painting of a cheetah with glasses

Katia Gomez: Alter ego

Anonymous: Duin
Mixed media collage of a girl with yellow on her eyes and people in the background

Roxana Servin: Matriarchy
Stop motion animation of green person playing basketball

Lucila Cerna: Jugando Basquetbol (Playing Basketball)
hands surrounded by fabrics using a sewing machine

Anonymous: Possession
Graphite still life drawing of various objects

Cora Mangual: Emptiness
An Aseprite Animation

Donald Richard: Thundercat
A painting of a black woman with words written on her body

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Women
Red drawing of a girl with a blue drawing of a girl upside down above her

Maria Mancero: Hot and Cold

Melanie Canales: Untitled

Calvin Kumler: Tornado
Drawing of a woman sitting in a hair salon

Anonymous: Another Day at The Hair Salon

Nina Figurelli: Untitled
Digital drawing of a room with pink carpet. There is a wooden desk and chair, pictures on the wall, and a skateboard and guitar next to the desk.

Anonymous: Quarantine

Rory Baldwin: Morning View: 850 Lakeshore

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Gyaru
A digital mosaic of 3 pink flowers and leaves

Yadira Guaman: Digital Mosaic
Drawing of a vitamin bottle with a rubik's cube in front

Yinyin Liang: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Watercolor portrait of a woman with an orange hat

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Portrait

Taryn Landsberger: Pheasant’s Eye
graphite line drawing of one of Calder's wire gestural sculptures

Kymia Ferguson: Gesture
Painted still life with a My Little Pony

Anonymous: Still Life

Anonymous: Orb
Digital drawing of person with long hair and glasses, in blue.

Anonymous: Blue Portrait
Chalk pastel and graphite on paper collage of things from 2020

Anonymous: The Year 2020
Wire sculpture worn on person's head. The wire loops around and encloses the model's face.

Anonymous: Untitled
Closeup self portrait in orange color with sunglasses

Ralph Lasalle: Self Portrait
purple octopus on person's face.

Annabel Multer: Nose and Mouth Mask
Black and white print of circles

Anonymous: Untitled (circles)
portrait with a body where the person's brain would be

Anonymous: Internal
Abstract illustration of people stuck in orbs with viruses in the background

Anonymous: Untitled

Adrian Panopio: Homage to Stacey Abrams, the Saint of Voting Rights
Collage of newspaper articles with eyes painted on top

Anonymous: Stop Asian Hate
Colored pencil drawing of a girl with red hair

Anonymous: How You Doin’?
Photograph of the shadows of hands on a window with a cross between them

Anonymous: Y Con Tu Espiritu

Auttum Thomas: Sound Poem
black cat on starry night background

Katherine Uruchima: “Oh, what the cat sees”
Black person sitting on the roof of a white car, with another Black person leaning against the driver side door.

William Midgett: Undecided
Colorful underwater scene

Anonymous: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic

Avra Raman: Untitled

Daniela Marroquin: Modern Scream
Sculpture of 3 people sitting in 3 different position

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Ruth, the Flowering Justice
Drawing of 2 heads with black hands, separating

Jimena Saldana: Where Is My Mind?

Zadie Beaty: America’s Faces

Chantelle Perez: Jaxon the Pyromaniac
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Kelby McMorris: Mom

Zoe Haritos: A Photo Memory

Nora McDermott: Changes
Portrait of a man in a yellow hat holding sonic the hedgehog

Anonymous: Diary of Zack Villere

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: I Am Beautiful.
Painting of a blue butterfly

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: snake
Drawing of a boy with patterned hair

Anonymous: Muhammad Yousuf Arbi Jr.
Black and white drawing of a robotic woman

Anonymous: Robotic Consumption

Isabela Torres: Little Soldier
Drawing of a woman in front of outer space.

Alejandra Ramirez Lopez: An Only Child of the Universe
A drawing of a tree with a blue background and grass

Anonymous: Happiness

Kelby McMorris: Untitled
A black and white drawing of a scene with an eyeball looking cage

Austin Washington: Eye Drawing

Anonymous: Untitled
Two cardboard figures, one blue and one gold

Anonymous: Peasant and King
Painting of person with long, black hair. Their shoulder faces the viewer, and there is an American flag on the sleeve, with America written underneath.

Patricia Belle Gochico: The Collectivist American

Cole Ham: Toucan

Amare’ Williamson: Frankenstein Montage
sculpture of triangular shapes with spray painted colorful circles

Anonymous: Day at the Circus
Green digital drawing with eye in center

Anonymous: Untitled
Pencil drawing of a person with dark hair wearing a watch. His eyes are bright blue.

Anonymous: Ocean Eyes
The shape of a face with the word vote

Anonymous: Get Out The Vote Poster
A photograph of a phone, a shoe, and other objects being balanced by someones feet.

Anonymous: Untitled
Photograph of two towels hanging on a bar

Angelica Arriaga: Fairy of Shampoo

Anonymous: Nest

Anonymous: Revolution of a Broken Heart Pt. II
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Anonymous: Focus

Isyss Whittmon: Mood Swings
A painting of Donald Trump with devil horns and a tail with the word El Diablo written underneath

Anonymous: El Diablo (The Devil)
Painting of colored patterns

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: It’s Rude To Follow Me Home

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of upside-down building with cars hanging in front

Anonymous: T-Tower

Cora Mangual: Reflection
A blue and purple illustration of a floating building with lights

Anonymous: Alien Hangout
Series of drawings of hummingbirds

Anonymous: HUMMINGBIRD 49MPH 3-5YRS

Nathan Dixon: Arteaga Fall/Winter 2021 Prêt-á-Porter
Drawing of bodies

Anonymous: Untitled
Space man Helmut in front of black space

Makenna Yoho: Alone in Space
A ceramic hand with a closed fist holding a rose and stem of small flowers

Annabella Lau: A Choking Endeavor
Red digital drawing of a face with two eyes

Anonymous: Untitled
Self portrait color pencil drawing with a lot of mouths

Celia Hannan: Self-Portrait Collage
Painting of an orange in front of a mountain background

Anonymous: Blood Orange Sunrise

Stephanie Simpson: stststst
tangled mess of gold necklaces

Nathan Dixon: Tangled Together

Anonymous: Ebony
Drawing of a girl with yellow construction paper attached

Tanijah Callahan: Renascent

Mia Kiefer: Duin
Digital drawing with brown, pink , and green shapes

Anonymous: Untitled
Gray sweatshirt with cartoon characters painted on it. Includes characters from Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls, Phinneus and Ferb, Spongebob, Tom and Jerry, and Gravity Falls among others.

Viviana Montes: Nostalgia
Digital drawing of two women kissing

Anonymous: Forbidden Lovers
A graphic rendering of a building in two point perspective

Antonio Olvera: Building in 2 point perspective
Dark photograph of youth at night on the street

Alyssa Rosado: Untitled
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Katelyn Martinez: Self Portrait

Eion Magana: Road Rage
Drawing of a rose

Anonymous: Rose
Digital drawing of a house on a hill in front of a lake

Anonymous: Home
Drawing of a student sitting on a rug crying with school supplies around them

Anonymous: Quarantine
A black and white photo of a piece of paper with two hands holding pencils

Yailin Gomez: In Our Minds

Anonymous: Sonder

Anonymous: Untitled

Natali Reyes Luna: Streakahedron
A black and white drawing of ballerina feet on point

Anonymous: On Your Toes
A painting of a man in a yellow jacket and blue hat holding a baby

Anonymous: Gift From Heaven

Anonymous: Cherry Blossom Petals
Portrait of person's face, their hand raised to chin, wearing a red flower in their hair, with yellow and pink flowers in front on a green background

Jasari Quince: Floral Essence
Drawing of skeleton on fire

Anonymous: Untitled
A graphic of a faceless person with a red shirt and a green background

Anonymous: We the People
Colorful abstract drawing.

Trent Landsberger: World of Colour
Watercolor painting of a house with the sunset reflecting from the windows

Samantha Berger: His Life’s Work

Anonymous: Midnight Runner
A collage of a womans face with big earrings and blue hair

Khushi Chaudhary: Khushi

Anonymous: Peace of Mind
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Justin Echols: Focus

Anonymous: Untitled

Christine Meinders: Niña de oro
A surreal drawing of a face that is only partial, stretching out and with multiple eyes

Anonymous: Stretched Too Thin
Graphite self portrait made from a bunch of different angles

Anonymous: Portrait with Angles

Anonymous: Untitled

Genevieve Teplitz: Untitled
Colorful torn paper collage

Anonymous: Springtime
Drawing of a girl with monarch butterflies

Anonymous: Monarcha
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Anonymous: Untitled
An Aseprite Animation

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Everything Stays
Drawing of person with megaphone that says "Please Stand By" surrounded by a kaleidoscopic pattern

Osvaldo Salgado: Please Stand By
Drawing of a bare back with two hands on the shoulder.

CJ Gordon: Maman
Photograph of a pinwheel in front of trees and a sky

Anonymous: Flightless Pinwheel
A drawing of a fist with the words "The Cause" written above

Jose Villalba: La Causa (The Cause)

Isa Walker: Frankenstein Montage

Jaelin Williams-Presley: Life Through a Cage

Anonymous: “All of Us”
Digital drawing of a young girl holding a candle

Anonymous: The Boogie Man
Painting of a woman with a colorful background

Anonymous: Untitled
Portrait of two girls

Nalani Sexton: Mom and I
Colorful underwater scene

Trent Landsberger: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic
A painting of a family set against a dark background

Anonymous: What Once Was

Anonymous: padre nuestro
Painting of a woman skiing down a mountain

Anonymous: Paradise

Anonymous: Dwight White

Anonymous: What You See
Colorful drawing of four beautiful people on top of one another

Anonymous: A Court of Beautiful Bodies
person in black and red dress lays on blue sheets.

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: ADORN
Split photograph of a book on the left and a man with his hands in the praying sign on the right

Anonymous: Untitled, from Still Life Series

Anonymous: Changes
A drawing of a tree with a blue background and grass

Katie Kaukialo: Happiness

Eion Magana: Going Nowhere

Kayla Beltran: Surreal landscape 1
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