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 mixed media artwork of a bird person covered in colorful feathers

Anonymous: Feather Dance
A surreal drawing of a face that is only partial, stretching out and with multiple eyes

Anonymous: Stretched Too Thin

Nathan Dixon: Arteaga Fall/Winter 2021 Prêt-á-Porter
Drawing of faces with squiggly lines around them

Anonymous: Nine Views
A painting of orange and yellow mountains under a blue sky

Michael Dominguez: Untitled
Photo of the light going across someone's body as they lay in a bed of white sheets

Jersey Benjamin: Elias
A painting of a family set against a dark background

Anonymous: What Once Was
A painting of two girls laying together among bushes and plants

Ava Ortiz: A Kiss

Haily Roman: Cluster

Zoe Haritos: A Photo Memory
A digital drawing of a girl holding flowers and wearing a flower crown

Anonymous: Little Miss Mistakes
Mixed media of a man getting fed a pomegranate in front of a buffet of food

Angela Blanco: Untitled
A photograph of the inside of a building looking down from a top floor

Anonymous: Water Tower
The shape of a face with the word vote

Anonymous: Get Out The Vote Poster

Anonymous: Untitled
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
Two blue hands raising toward a red cube with a smiley face

Veronica Timble: Glorpo Loves You
A graphic design with words creating the image of an earth on fire

Arturo Garcia: Our Changing World
portrait with a body where the person's brain would be

Anonymous: Internal

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

Fonseca Naomi: Laconic-Expressing Much In Few Words

Faustyna Turek: Ignite

Adrian Panopio: Homage to Stacey Abrams, the Saint of Voting Rights

Anonymous: Untitled
A green collage with a girls face and plants and butterflies

Jessie Kocur: Untitled
A black and white photo of a piece of paper with two hands holding pencils

Yailin Gomez: In Our Minds

Taryn Landsberger: Pheasant’s Eye

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

Jaqueline Garcia: Motherhood?
Portrait of two girls

Nalani Sexton: Mom and I
Red drawing of a girl with a blue drawing of a girl upside down above her

Maria Mancero: Hot and Cold

Anonymous: Revolution of a Broken Heart Pt. II
Graphite drawing of a girl's face up close

Anonymous: Duality
Watercolor of 1/2 of a person's face in front of waterfront

Edana Lynch: Self Portrait
Drawing of a woman sitting in a hair salon

Anonymous: Another Day at The Hair Salon
graphite line drawing of one of Calder's wire gestural sculptures

Kymia Ferguson: Gesture
Digital drawing of people with multiple faces around them

Anonymous: DID
A dark photo of white and orange glowing cubes

Anonymous: Hockney Joiner Lanterns
Digital drawing of a plane wing

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

Anonymous: Friendship
Green person leaning against pink rock with an american flag on it

Adrian Lopez: Bitter-sweet

Isyss Whittmon: Mood Swings
Sculpture of 3 people sitting in 3 different position

Anonymous: Untitled

Cole Ham: Toucan
Painting of an orange in front of a mountain background

Anonymous: Blood Orange Sunrise
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Katelyn Martinez: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Critical Low

Anonymous: Ruth, the Flowering Justice
Painting of flowers with a colorful border

Anonymous: Distraction

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

Anonymous: Morning Ritual
A pixel drawing of frida kahlo with a black cat

Alexis Ariza: Frida Kahlo
Watercolor portrait of a woman with an orange hat

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Portrait
Colorful underwater scene

Anonymous: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic
Painting of moon setting over the ocean

Anonymous: Luna
A digital illustration of a woman with her face painted like a Dia del los Muertos skull

Yoselin Mata: Day of the Dead
Drawing of a bare back with two hands on the shoulder.

CJ Gordon: Maman
Drawing of a tree with burned and ripped book pages and an orange sun

Molly Perez: Prison on My Mind

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of a woman with a colorful background

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

Celia Hannan: Self-Portrait Collage

Anonymous: Living in the Pandemic
Drawing of a woman wearing a headscarf with a red line across her eyes

Anonymous: Purity
Stop motion animation of green person playing basketball

Lucila Cerna: Jugando Basquetbol (Playing Basketball)
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Anonymous: Focus
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
Colorful abstract drawing.

Trent Landsberger: World of Colour
Colorful underwater scene

Trent Landsberger: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic

Melanie Canales: Untitled
Drawing of flowers and bees

Diaz Emily: Dance to survive
Graphite self portrait made from a bunch of different angles

Anonymous: Portrait with Angles
A digital mosaic of 3 pink flowers and leaves

Yadira Guaman: Digital Mosaic

Isabela Torres: Little Soldier

Christine Meinders: Niña de oro
Graphite drawing of a dragon

Anonymous: The Love
A figure drawing from the front, back, and side of a girl with green hair

Anonymous: WRAH! T-Pose

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage
Painting of colored patterns

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

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Men
hand with 2 fingers in the little pocket of a pair of jeans

Annabel Multer: untitled
Green digital drawing with eye in center

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Grandma
Black and white drawing of a robotic woman

Anonymous: Robotic Consumption
Digital drawing of book covers and a gameboy

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
Drawing of a young girl with her hands on her face

Anonymous: Sofia

Rory Baldwin: Morning View: 850 Lakeshore
Digital drawing with brown, pink , and green shapes

Anonymous: Untitled
A digital drawing of a blue cat

Iliana Hernandez: Cat
Collage portrait of two figures

Rachel Deveyra: Collage Self-Portrait

Anonymous: Sonder
Figure with "do not cross" tape on a rich red background

Elizabeth Kujawa: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
photograph of person behind lattice with plants

Rachel Deveyra: Plant
Black and white print of circles

Anonymous: Untitled (circles)
Photograph of a model of a destroyed room

Celia Hannan: The Destroyed Room
Sculpture of clouds with lights in the middle and chains wrapped around

Anonymous: Untitled
An Aseprite Animation

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Everything Stays
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
sculpture of triangular shapes with spray painted colorful circles

Anonymous: Day at the Circus

Anonymous: Untitled
Watercolor painting of a house with the sunset reflecting from the windows

Samantha Berger: His Life’s Work
Drawing of building with smoke stack behind it

Anonymous: The Old Days
An abstract photograph of symmetrical shapes like an inkblot

Anonymous: Detatched
pencil drawing of person with colorful eyes

Sierra Baldwin: Starry Eyes

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Dwight White

Melanie Canales: Untitled

Anonymous: Self-Portrait showing movement and Light
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
Pencil drawing of a person with dark hair wearing a watch. His eyes are bright blue.

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

Anonymous: Protected
Photograph of a pinwheel in front of trees and a sky

Anonymous: Flightless Pinwheel
Mask made of googly eyes

Christine Meinders: Kindermask
Digital drawing of two women jumping into a pool

Anonymous: Taking the Plunge
Graphite still life drawing of various objects

Cora Mangual: Emptiness
A painting of a black woman with words written on her body

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Women
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

Kayla Beltran: Surreal landscape 1
A warm drawing of a waterfall coming off a cliff with oranges and reds

Giselle Raigosa: Manai Falls, Takachiho Gorge, Japan

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage
Digital drawing of a colorful skeleton

Anonymous: Day of the Dead

Anonymous: What You See
Drawing of person with megaphone that says "Please Stand By" surrounded by a kaleidoscopic pattern

Osvaldo Salgado: Please Stand By
A drawing of a tree with a blue background and grass

Anonymous: Happiness
Series of drawings of hummingbirds

Anonymous: HUMMINGBIRD 49MPH 3-5YRS
tangled mess of gold necklaces

Nathan Dixon: Tangled Together
A digital artwork of bubbles with different scenes going on in the bubbles

Anonymous: The Bubble
Abstract painting with light colors

Fatima Choudhry: Was I your home?
drawing of jewelry on white sheet

Yessenia Martinez: Adorn
A painting of a man in a yellow jacket and blue hat holding a baby

Anonymous: Gift From Heaven

Isa Walker: Frankenstein Montage

Anonymous: Changes

Auttum Thomas: Still Life
Photograph of two towels hanging on a bar

Angelica Arriaga: Fairy of Shampoo

Anonymous: Midnight Runner
digital drawing of a person in all black with a gray background

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Collage of newspaper articles with eyes painted on top

Anonymous: Stop Asian Hate

Anonymous: She Loves Me

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
Gif of person laying on a bed screaming AAAHHHH

Olivia Kluska: Constant Pain

Cora Mangual: Reflection

Stephanie Simpson: stststst

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Mother
Abstract painting

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Sunny Side Up
Butterflies and a face with blue hair and cat ears

Matthew Jeffris: Untitled
A painting of Donald Trump with devil horns and a tail with the word El Diablo written underneath

Anonymous: El Diablo (The Devil)
A black print of a skeleton with a tree in the background

Anonymous: Untitled
Black person sitting on the roof of a white car, with another Black person leaning against the driver side door.

William Midgett: Undecided

Jhazmin Lucero: A childs routine during a pandemic

Emma Chung: White Noise
Drawing of roman figures on a mountain side with an orange sky.

Auren Boynton: Rose Oil
A mixed media sculpture of a mannequin head with wooden spikes coming out of the face

Anonymous: :)
Digital drawing of a young girl holding a candle

Anonymous: The Boogie Man
Space man Helmut in front of black space

Makenna Yoho: Alone in Space
A landscape drawing of a lake and a tree

Emeline Ramirez: Yoakum Mixed Media Landscape

Zadie Beaty: America’s Faces
Painted still life with a My Little Pony

Anonymous: Still Life
Paint of a desk with plans and curtains

Thalia Witkovsky: 9:37 PM

Zoe Haritos: Sweeter Than Candy

Eion Magana: Road Rage
Digital drawing of two women kissing

Anonymous: Forbidden Lovers
Green and yellow painting with bamboo in the background

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

Anonymous: We the People

Kael Carmona: Fishbowl
Closeup self portrait in orange color with sunglasses

Ralph Lasalle: Self Portrait

Auttum Thomas: Sound Poem
Colored pencil drawing of a girl with red hair

Anonymous: How You Doin’?

Taylor Pate: The Burning of Venus
Drawing of someone running their friend's head

Anonymous: Friendship
Drawing of boy with hands over his ears, with abstract tv images in the background

Anonymous: Allodoxaphobia

Eion Magana: Going Nowhere
Drawing of a boy with patterned hair

Anonymous: Muhammad Yousuf Arbi Jr.
A painting of a young woman looking to the side

Keyla Estrada: The Wandering Woman

Anonymous: Untitled

Heidi Wier: The Outfit I was Wearing for Valentine’s Day
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Kelby McMorris: Mom

Anonymous: I Am Beautiful.

Natali Reyes Luna: Streakahedron

Heidi Wier: 9

Kelby McMorris: Untitled

Anonymous: Stop Closing Your Eyes

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

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

Anonymous: The Year 2020

Avra Raman: Untitled

Viviana Hernandez: I Am Beautiful.

Ashley Barrios: Childhood Innocence
Painting of pumpkin people in front of pumpkin houses

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

Jose Villalba: La Causa (The Cause)
Drawing of a vitamin bottle with a rubik's cube in front

Yinyin Liang: Untitled
purple octopus on person's face.

Annabel Multer: Nose and Mouth Mask
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Life on a computer
An abstract sculpture with mixed materials of red, yellow, and blue

Natalie Mora: The Primary

Chantelle Perez: Jaxon the Pyromaniac
Drawing of a bee on a sunflower with the world in the middle

Moreno Leslie: Giving Life
A photograph of a girl on the phone who's face is painted red and blue.

Anonymous: Untitled
A black and white drawing of ballerina feet on point

Anonymous: On Your Toes
Drawing of a girl with yellow construction paper attached

Tanijah Callahan: Renascent
Mandala of blue and red triangles and circles

Alexis Ariza: Mandala
A graphic rendering of a building in two point perspective

Antonio Olvera: Building in 2 point perspective
Drawing of art objects on a table, orange and blue

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
An Aseprite Animation

Donald Richard: Thundercat

Genevieve Teplitz: Untitled

Jaelin Williams-Presley: Life Through a Cage
Digital drawing of a house on a hill in front of a lake

Anonymous: Home
Colorful torn paper collage

Anonymous: Springtime
Drawing of skeleton on fire

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: “All of Us”
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Anonymous: Untitled

Mia Kiefer: Duin

Anonymous: Ebony
A blue and purple illustration of a floating building with lights

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

Roxana Servin: Matriarchy
Dark photograph of youth at night on the street

Alyssa Rosado: Untitled
Pencil drawing of sunglasses, pencil, flask, keychain

Dylan Henke: Let’s Go For A Ride

Anahi Alcala: A Starry Night Past New Home
Painting of upside-down building with cars hanging in front

Anonymous: T-Tower
Drawing of bodies

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

Anonymous: Quarantine
A photograph of a phone, a shoe, and other objects being balanced by someones feet.

Anonymous: Untitled

Kayla Beltran: Desert Skull
A woman with a large afro and a black power fist in her hair

Anonymous: Free Draw
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.
Painting of a person with a bomb as a head

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: La bomba
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
A rainbow background with a small moon and a black bat

Anonymous: Beautiful Bats
Drawing of 2 heads with black hands, separating

Jimena Saldana: Where Is My Mind?

Nora McDermott: Changes

Anonymous: Cherry Blossom Petals

Amare’ Williamson: Frankenstein Montage

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Gyaru
Digital drawing of person with long hair and glasses, in blue.

Anonymous: Blue Portrait
Colorful abstract drawing.

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Peace of Mind
Red digital drawing of a face with two eyes

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

Anonymous: Stuck at Home

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

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a fork in noodles with animals

Anonymous: Power Animals
Newspaper headline collage

Anonymous: Read All About It
Painting of a blue butterfly

Anonymous: Untitled
Mixed Media collage of the bottom of a person's face with images coming out of their head

Camryn Gosa: Untitled
Mask that looks like a flower, only exposes 1 eye

Sasse Engel: Sundaze in Drowning
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Justin Echols: Focus
Paper roll sculpture

Anonymous: Black Knowledge
A collage of a womans face with big earrings and blue hair

Khushi Chaudhary: Khushi
A portrait of a black woman with cracked wing shapes over her eyes

Anonymous: Maud
drawing of eye

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

Katie Kaukialo: Happiness
Painting of a woman skiing down a mountain

Anonymous: Paradise

Nayary Delgado: Cherry Blossom Petals
A black and white photo of a car in the snow with the trunk open

Karolina Mancilla: Untitled

Daniela Marroquin: Modern Scream

Anonymous: Orb
Ink drawing of a person's face with a second person in profile in front

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: El borracho

Anonymous: Nest
I was not An Imposter with Among Us astronaut pained on glass in black frame.

Anonymous: Red Is Sus
Image of little girl with hands on her knees looking at something

Anonymous: Little Kaylen In Wonderland
painting of hands playing dominoes

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Dwight White

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

Cesar Garcia: Afloat

Annabel Multer: Bread Turtle

Anonymous: Downfall
Photograph of the shadows of hands on a window with a cross between them

Anonymous: Y Con Tu Espiritu
Portrait of a man in a yellow hat holding sonic the hedgehog

Anonymous: Diary of Zack Villere
A digital illustration of a mouth with pink lips and white teeth

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Samantha Hasselquist: Stretched Convergence
A black and white portrait of Anthony Bourdain

Maia Palomar: Parts Unknown
Two cardboard figures, one blue and one gold

Anonymous: Peasant and King
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

Anonymous: It’s Rude To Follow Me Home
Black and white ink drawing of legs and a bunch of hands

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: Body
Very colorful digital drawing of a cemetery with papel picado

Anonymous: Guanajuato

Calvin Kumler: Tornado

Anonymous: Pheasant’s Eye
Painting of trees on a lake in front of a sunset

Anabel Perez: Rainbow Water
Drawing of a rose

Anonymous: Rose

Anonymous: Monochromatic Landscape
Colorful drawing of four beautiful people on top of one another

Anonymous: A Court of Beautiful Bodies
abstract drawing

Anonymous: Untitled (Make Remake)
Black and white construction paper highlighting positive/negative space

Anonymous: Positive-Negative Art
abstract painting with green, gold, and black

Anonymous: Untitled (Tell Me a Story)
black cat on starry night background

Katherine Uruchima: “Oh, what the cat sees”
Line drawing of a profile with lines in the background

Salas Jocelyn: The Parasite of Opinion
Drawing of a woman in front of outer space.

Alejandra Ramirez Lopez: An Only Child of the Universe
Digital drawing of red rabbit on the phone

Natalia Rozenek: A Threatening Presence
Drawing of a girl with monarch butterflies

Anonymous: Monarcha
Painting of a cheetah with glasses

Katia Gomez: Alter ego

Taryn Landsberger: Critical Low
A black and white drawing of a scene with an eyeball looking cage

Austin Washington: Eye Drawing

Anonymous: Untitled
hands surrounded by fabrics using a sewing machine

Anonymous: Possession
Drawing of Godzilla with a black background

Cielo Zavala: GODZILLA

Ashley Alamo: Indifference
person in black and red dress lays on blue sheets.

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: ADORN

Anonymous: snake
A photo of a woman in a mask surrounded by slips of paper with writing

Reginae Echols: The Black Woman’s Burden
A ceramic hand with a closed fist holding a rose and stem of small flowers

Annabella Lau: A Choking Endeavor
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