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.

Black and white ink drawing of legs and a bunch of hands

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: Body

Anonymous: Pheasant’s Eye

Eion Magana: Going Nowhere

Zoe Haritos: A Photo Memory
A graphic of a faceless person with a red shirt and a green background

Anonymous: We the People

Viviana Hernandez: I Am Beautiful.
Drawing of building with smoke stack behind it

Anonymous: The Old Days

Ashley Barrios: Childhood Innocence
Mixed media of a man getting fed a pomegranate in front of a buffet of food

Angela Blanco: Untitled
Digital drawing of a young girl holding a candle

Anonymous: The Boogie Man

Anonymous: Untitled
Paper roll sculpture

Anonymous: Black Knowledge
Image of little girl with hands on her knees looking at something

Anonymous: Little Kaylen In Wonderland

Anonymous: What You See

Kael Carmona: Fishbowl

Anonymous: Downfall
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: She Loves Me
Mixed Media collage of the bottom of a person's face with images coming out of their head

Camryn Gosa: Untitled
A digital drawing of a girl holding flowers and wearing a flower crown

Anonymous: Little Miss Mistakes

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Mother

Kayla Beltran: Surreal landscape 1
Mandala of blue and red triangles and circles

Alexis Ariza: Mandala
drawing of eye

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

Anonymous: WRAH! T-Pose
Collage of newspaper articles with eyes painted on top

Anonymous: Stop Asian Hate
A black and white drawing of ballerina feet on point

Anonymous: On Your Toes
Ink drawing of a person's face with a second person in profile in front

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: El borracho
A portrait of a black woman with cracked wing shapes over her eyes

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

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

Yailin Gomez: In Our Minds

Anonymous: Dwight White
Drawing of a young girl with her hands on her face

Anonymous: Sofia

Chantelle Perez: Jaxon the Pyromaniac
Self portrait color pencil drawing with a lot of mouths

Celia Hannan: Self-Portrait Collage
A painting of two girls laying together among bushes and plants

Ava Ortiz: A Kiss

Natali Reyes Luna: Streakahedron

Anahi Alcala: A Starry Night Past New Home
Drawing of a tree with burned and ripped book pages and an orange sun

Molly Perez: Prison on My Mind
Collage portrait of two figures

Rachel Deveyra: Collage Self-Portrait

Kayla Beltran: Desert Skull

Annabel Multer: Bread Turtle
A ceramic hand with a closed fist holding a rose and stem of small flowers

Annabella Lau: A Choking Endeavor
Painting of a woman skiing down a mountain

Anonymous: Paradise

Anonymous: Life on a computer
Drawing of a rose

Anonymous: Rose
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
Paint of a desk with plans and curtains

Thalia Witkovsky: 9:37 PM

Anonymous: snake
Painting of a person with a bomb as a head

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: La bomba

Anonymous: “All of Us”
Colored pencil drawing of a girl with red hair

Anonymous: How You Doin’?
Painting of colored patterns

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Revolution of a Broken Heart Pt. II
Drawing of art objects on a table, orange and blue

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life

Haily Roman: Cluster

Isyss Whittmon: Mood Swings
I was not An Imposter with Among Us astronaut pained on glass in black frame.

Anonymous: Red Is Sus
A surreal drawing of a face that is only partial, stretching out and with multiple eyes

Anonymous: Stretched Too Thin
Drawing of a woman in front of outer space.

Alejandra Ramirez Lopez: An Only Child of the Universe
Colorful underwater scene

Anonymous: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic

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

Edana Lynch: Self Portrait

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

Anonymous: Hockney Joiner Lanterns
Painting of a woman with a colorful background

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

Karolina Mancilla: Untitled
Drawing of boy with hands over his ears, with abstract tv images in the background

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

Adrian Lopez: Bitter-sweet
Mask that looks like a flower, only exposes 1 eye

Sasse Engel: Sundaze in Drowning
Colorful abstract drawing.

Anonymous: World of Colour
A graphic rendering of a building in two point perspective

Antonio Olvera: Building in 2 point perspective
Drawing of roman figures on a mountain side with an orange sky.

Auren Boynton: Rose Oil
Red drawing of a girl with a blue drawing of a girl upside down above her

Maria Mancero: Hot and Cold

Daniela Marroquin: Modern Scream
A rainbow background with a small moon and a black bat

Anonymous: Beautiful Bats
A digital artwork of bubbles with different scenes going on in the bubbles

Anonymous: The Bubble

Anonymous: Untitled
Mask made of googly eyes

Christine Meinders: Kindermask
A painting of Donald Trump with devil horns and a tail with the word El Diablo written underneath

Anonymous: El Diablo (The Devil)
Very colorful digital drawing of a cemetery with papel picado

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

Reginae Echols: The Black Woman’s Burden
Drawing of a girl with monarch butterflies

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

Anonymous: Untitled
Newspaper headline collage

Anonymous: Read All About It

Auttum Thomas: Still Life

Melanie Canales: Untitled
Painting of trees on a lake in front of a sunset

Anabel Perez: Rainbow Water
Drawing of skeleton on fire

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

Jersey Benjamin: Elias
A woman with a large afro and a black power fist in her hair

Anonymous: Free Draw

Anonymous: Personal Power
Stop motion animation of green person playing basketball

Lucila Cerna: Jugando Basquetbol (Playing Basketball)

Taryn Landsberger: Critical Low
Drawing of faces with squiggly lines around them

Anonymous: Nine Views

Auttum Thomas: Sound Poem

Nayary Delgado: Cherry Blossom Petals

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a fork in noodles with animals

Anonymous: Power Animals
Painting of a blue butterfly

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

Anonymous: The Year 2020

Emma Chung: White Noise
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
A mixed media sculpture of a mannequin head with wooden spikes coming out of the face

Anonymous: :)
Painting of moon setting over the ocean

Anonymous: Luna
sculpture of triangular shapes with spray painted colorful circles

Anonymous: Day at the Circus
A drawing of a tree with a blue background and grass

Anonymous: Happiness

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a bare back with two hands on the shoulder.

CJ Gordon: Maman

Anonymous: Dwight White
A warm drawing of a waterfall coming off a cliff with oranges and reds

Giselle Raigosa: Manai Falls, Takachiho Gorge, Japan
Photograph of a model of a destroyed room

Celia Hannan: The Destroyed Room

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of people with multiple faces around them

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

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

Samantha Berger: His Life’s Work
A digital mosaic of 3 pink flowers and leaves

Yadira Guaman: Digital Mosaic
Portrait of two girls

Nalani Sexton: Mom and I
painting of hands playing dominoes

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: padre nuestro
Abstract painting

Anonymous: Untitled
Colorful torn paper collage

Anonymous: Springtime

Melanie Canales: Untitled

Christine Meinders: Niña de oro
Figure with "do not cross" tape on a rich red background

Elizabeth Kujawa: Untitled

Anonymous: Self-Portrait showing movement and Light
Butterflies and a face with blue hair and cat ears

Matthew Jeffris: Untitled
Sculpture of 3 people sitting in 3 different position

Anonymous: Untitled
hand with 2 fingers in the little pocket of a pair of jeans

Annabel Multer: untitled
Painting of a girl with three eyes and a green background

Anonymous: Protected
Black and white print of circles

Anonymous: Untitled (circles)
drawing of jewelry on white sheet

Yessenia Martinez: Adorn
A painting of orange and yellow mountains under a blue sky

Michael Dominguez: 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
An abstract sculpture with mixed materials of red, yellow, and blue

Natalie Mora: The Primary

Taryn Landsberger: Pheasant’s Eye
A drawing of a fist with the words "The Cause" written above

Jose Villalba: La Causa (The Cause)
The shape of a face with the word vote

Anonymous: Get Out The Vote Poster

Anonymous: Untitled

Heidi Wier: The Outfit I was Wearing for Valentine’s Day
A graphic design with words creating the image of an earth on fire

Arturo Garcia: Our Changing World
Watercolor portrait of a woman with an orange hat

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Portrait

Eion Magana: Road Rage

Isabela Torres: Little Soldier

Anonymous: Critical Low
pencil drawing of person with colorful eyes

Sierra Baldwin: Starry Eyes
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Katelyn Martinez: Self Portrait
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Kelby McMorris: Mom

Anonymous: Changes
Space man Helmut in front of black space

Makenna Yoho: Alone in Space
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.
hands surrounded by fabrics using a sewing machine

Anonymous: Possession

Anonymous: Monochromatic Landscape
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: Cherry Blossom Petals
Digital drawing of book covers and a gameboy

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
A digital illustration of a mouth with pink lips and white teeth

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

Cesar Garcia: Afloat

Anonymous: Peace of Mind

Isa Walker: Frankenstein Montage
Drawing of a bee on a sunflower with the world in the middle

Moreno Leslie: Giving Life

Zadie Beaty: America’s Faces
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Anonymous: Focus
person in black and red dress lays on blue sheets.

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: ADORN
A black print of a skeleton with a tree in the background

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

Anonymous: Stuck at Home
pencil drawing of woman with infant in front of window.

Jaqueline Garcia: Motherhood?

Nora McDermott: Changes

Rory Baldwin: Morning View: 850 Lakeshore
Pencil drawing of a person with dark hair wearing a watch. His eyes are bright blue.

Anonymous: Ocean Eyes
Colorful drawing of four beautiful people on top of one another

Anonymous: A Court of Beautiful Bodies
Dark photograph of youth at night on the street

Alyssa Rosado: Untitled
Drawing of bodies

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

Katie Kaukialo: Happiness
Digital drawing of two women jumping into a pool

Anonymous: Taking the Plunge
portrait with a body where the person's brain would be

Anonymous: Internal
Sculpture of clouds with lights in the middle and chains wrapped around

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

Yoselin Mata: Day of the Dead
A painting of a young woman looking to the side

Keyla Estrada: The Wandering Woman
Black and white drawing of a robotic woman

Anonymous: Robotic Consumption
Two cardboard figures, one blue and one gold

Anonymous: Peasant and King

Mia Kiefer: Duin
Green digital drawing with eye in center

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

Austin Washington: Eye Drawing
purple octopus on person's face.

Annabel Multer: Nose and Mouth Mask

Heidi Wier: 9

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Graphite drawing of a dragon

Anonymous: The Love
Drawing of a girl with yellow construction paper attached

Tanijah Callahan: Renascent
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
Graphite self portrait made from a bunch of different angles

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

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Men

Jaelin Williams-Presley: Life Through a Cage

Jhazmin Lucero: A childs routine during a pandemic
Black and white construction paper highlighting positive/negative space

Anonymous: Positive-Negative Art

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage
Colorful underwater scene

Trent Landsberger: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic
A mixed media artwork of a bird person covered in colorful feathers

Anonymous: Feather Dance

Anonymous: It’s Rude To Follow Me Home

Anonymous: Sunny Side Up

Anonymous: Living in the Pandemic
Digital drawing with brown, pink , and green shapes

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of 2 heads with black hands, separating

Jimena Saldana: Where Is My Mind?

Anonymous: Ruth, the Flowering Justice
A pixel drawing of frida kahlo with a black cat

Alexis Ariza: Frida Kahlo

Nathan Dixon: Arteaga Fall/Winter 2021 Prêt-á-Porter
Drawing of a woman wearing a headscarf with a red line across her eyes

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

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of a plane wing

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of two women kissing

Anonymous: Forbidden Lovers
Photograph of two towels hanging on a bar

Angelica Arriaga: Fairy of Shampoo
Photograph of a pinwheel in front of trees and a sky

Anonymous: Flightless Pinwheel
Painting of flowers with a colorful border

Anonymous: Distraction
Series of drawings of hummingbirds

Anonymous: HUMMINGBIRD 49MPH 3-5YRS

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Gyaru
A digital drawing of a blue cat

Iliana Hernandez: Cat

Adrian Panopio: Homage to Stacey Abrams, the Saint of Voting Rights
An abstract photograph of symmetrical shapes like an inkblot

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

Anonymous: Friendship

Taylor Pate: The Burning of Venus
Photograph of a Black person braiding the hair of a large doll in her lap.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Midnight Runner

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage
Digital drawing of a colorful skeleton

Anonymous: Day of the Dead
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Justin Echols: Focus

Stephanie Simpson: stststst
Drawing of flowers and bees

Diaz Emily: Dance to survive

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Duin
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

Nina Figurelli: Untitled

Cole Ham: Toucan
Painting of a cheetah with glasses

Katia Gomez: Alter ego
A collage of a womans face with big earrings and blue hair

Khushi Chaudhary: Khushi

Anonymous: Just a Little Black Girl’s Dream of Success
Drawing of Godzilla with a black background

Cielo Zavala: GODZILLA
abstract drawing

Anonymous: Untitled (Make Remake)
graphite line drawing of one of Calder's wire gestural sculptures

Kymia Ferguson: Gesture
Red digital drawing of a face with two eyes

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

Anonymous: Water Tower
Green and yellow painting with bamboo in the background

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

Osvaldo Salgado: Please Stand By

Faustyna Turek: Ignite
A green collage with a girls face and plants and butterflies

Jessie Kocur: Untitled
Painting of pumpkin people in front of pumpkin houses

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

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Stop Closing Your Eyes

Anonymous: Ebony
An Aseprite Animation

Donald Richard: Thundercat
Closeup self portrait in orange color with sunglasses

Ralph Lasalle: Self Portrait
Graphite still life drawing of various objects

Cora Mangual: Emptiness

Ashley Alamo: Indifference
Drawing of a boy with patterned hair

Anonymous: Muhammad Yousuf Arbi Jr.

Avra Raman: Untitled
Drawing of a vitamin bottle with a rubik's cube in front

Yinyin Liang: Untitled
Digital drawing of a house on a hill in front of a lake

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Genevieve Teplitz: Untitled
Drawing of someone running their friend's head

Anonymous: Friendship

Anonymous: Orb

Samantha Hasselquist: Stretched Convergence
Mixed media collage of a girl with yellow on her eyes and people in the background

Roxana Servin: Matriarchy

Calvin Kumler: Tornado

Anonymous: I Am Beautiful.
Two blue hands raising toward a red cube with a smiley face

Veronica Timble: Glorpo Loves You
Portrait of a man in a yellow hat holding sonic the hedgehog

Anonymous: Diary of Zack Villere
Drawing of a woman sitting in a hair salon

Anonymous: Another Day at The Hair Salon

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

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

William Midgett: Undecided
abstract painting with green, gold, and black

Anonymous: Untitled (Tell Me a Story)
Painted still life with a My Little Pony

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

Emeline Ramirez: Yoakum Mixed Media Landscape

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

Anonymous: Alien Hangout

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

Anonymous: Quarantine

Zoe Haritos: Sweeter Than Candy
Painting of an orange in front of a mountain background

Anonymous: Blood Orange Sunrise
Gif of person laying on a bed screaming AAAHHHH

Olivia Kluska: Constant Pain
A painting of a family set against a dark background

Anonymous: What Once Was
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
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
An Aseprite Animation

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Everything Stays
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Abstract painting with light colors

Fatima Choudhry: Was I your home?
A black and white portrait of Anthony Bourdain

Maia Palomar: Parts Unknown
tangled mess of gold necklaces

Nathan Dixon: Tangled Together
Digital drawing of blue flower with a bee in the middle

Fonseca Naomi: Laconic-Expressing Much In Few Words

Anonymous: Untitled
A painting of a man in a yellow jacket and blue hat holding a baby

Anonymous: Gift From Heaven

Kelby McMorris: Untitled
photograph of person behind lattice with plants

Rachel Deveyra: Plant

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

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Women
A drawing of a girl doing her makeup and her reflection in the mirror

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

Anonymous: T-Tower
Colorful abstract drawing.

Trent Landsberger: World of Colour

Amare’ Williamson: Frankenstein Montage
Pencil drawing of sunglasses, pencil, flask, keychain

Dylan Henke: Let’s Go For A Ride
Photograph of the shadows of hands on a window with a cross between them

Anonymous: Y Con Tu Espiritu
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