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 surreal drawing of a face that is only partial, stretching out and with multiple eyes

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

Camryn Gosa: Untitled

Anonymous: Critical Low
Digital drawing with brown, pink , and green shapes

Anonymous: Untitled
Digital drawing of book covers and a gameboy

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
Painting of an orange in front of a mountain background

Anonymous: Blood Orange Sunrise

Anonymous: It’s Rude To Follow Me Home

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

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

Jaqueline Garcia: Motherhood?

Taylor Pate: The Burning of Venus
purple octopus on person's face.

Annabel Multer: Nose and Mouth Mask
Painting of a girl with three eyes and a green background

Anonymous: Protected

Anonymous: Personal Power
Colorful drawing of four beautiful people on top of one another

Anonymous: A Court of Beautiful Bodies

Anonymous: Pheasant’s Eye
Digital drawing of person with long hair and glasses, in blue.

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

Anonymous: Allodoxaphobia

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage

Isa Walker: Frankenstein Montage

Ashley Barrios: Childhood Innocence
Drawing of a woman in front of outer space.

Alejandra Ramirez Lopez: An Only Child of the Universe
Collage of newspaper articles with eyes painted on top

Anonymous: Stop Asian Hate
Chalk pastel and graphite on paper collage of things from 2020

Anonymous: The Year 2020
A pixel drawing of frida kahlo with a black cat

Alexis Ariza: Frida Kahlo
Painting of upside-down building with cars hanging in front

Anonymous: T-Tower
Sculpture of 3 people sitting in 3 different position

Anonymous: Untitled

Rory Baldwin: Morning View: 850 Lakeshore
Drawing of Godzilla with a black background

Cielo Zavala: GODZILLA
pencil drawing of person with colorful eyes

Sierra Baldwin: Starry Eyes
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

Anonymous: Downfall
Series of drawings of hummingbirds

Anonymous: HUMMINGBIRD 49MPH 3-5YRS

Anonymous: Just a Little Black Girl’s Dream of Success
Black person sitting on the roof of a white car, with another Black person leaning against the driver side door.

William Midgett: Undecided
Photograph of a model of a destroyed room

Celia Hannan: The Destroyed Room
A woman with a large afro and a black power fist in her hair

Anonymous: Free Draw
A photograph of a girl on the phone who's face is painted red and blue.

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

Anonymous: Untitled (Tell Me a Story)

Anonymous: Frankenstein Montage
Graphite self portrait made from a bunch of different angles

Anonymous: Portrait with Angles

Christine Meinders: Niña de oro
A black and white portrait of Anthony Bourdain

Maia Palomar: Parts Unknown
Drawing of a fork in noodles with animals

Anonymous: Power Animals
Portrait of two girls

Nalani Sexton: Mom and I
A portrait of a black woman with cracked wing shapes over her eyes

Anonymous: Maud

Eion Magana: Road Rage
A digital drawing of a girl holding flowers and wearing a flower crown

Anonymous: Little Miss Mistakes

Faustyna Turek: Ignite
Painting of a blue butterfly

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

Katelyn Martinez: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Sonder
Painting of a woman skiing down a mountain

Anonymous: Paradise

Nayary Delgado: Cherry Blossom Petals
Mask made of googly eyes

Christine Meinders: Kindermask

Taryn Landsberger: Pheasant’s Eye
Photograph of a Black person braiding the hair of a large doll in her lap.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: I Am Beautiful.
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
Green and yellow painting with bamboo in the background

Anonymous: Extinction

Heidi Wier: 9
Two cardboard figures, one blue and one gold

Anonymous: Peasant and King
Photograph of the shadows of hands on a window with a cross between them

Anonymous: Y Con Tu Espiritu
Drawing of a student sitting on a rug crying with school supplies around them

Anonymous: Quarantine

Chantelle Perez: Jaxon the Pyromaniac

Cora Mangual: Reflection

Anonymous: Sunny Side Up
Colorful abstract drawing.

Anonymous: World of Colour
Black and white print of circles

Anonymous: Untitled (circles)

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of art objects on a table, orange and blue

Anonymous: Autobiographical Still Life
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

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

Sasse Engel: Sundaze in Drowning
Figure with "do not cross" tape on a rich red background

Elizabeth Kujawa: Untitled
Drawing of a boy with patterned hair

Anonymous: Muhammad Yousuf Arbi Jr.
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Cherry Blossom Petals

Viviana Hernandez: I Am Beautiful.

Jaelin Williams-Presley: Life Through a Cage
A collage of a womans face with big earrings and blue hair

Khushi Chaudhary: Khushi
A black and white drawing of ballerina feet on point

Anonymous: On Your Toes
Drawing of someone running their friend's head

Anonymous: Friendship

Ashley Alamo: Indifference
Drawing of faces with squiggly lines around them

Anonymous: Nine Views
Painting of pumpkin people in front of pumpkin houses

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

Anonymous: Home

Anonymous: Nest
Digital drawing of two women jumping into a pool

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

Jose Villalba: La Causa (The Cause)

Anonymous: Changes
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
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

Heidi Wier: The Outfit I was Wearing for Valentine’s Day
Drawing of a vitamin bottle with a rubik's cube in front

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

Celia Hannan: Self-Portrait Collage
Pencil drawing of a person with dark hair wearing a watch. His eyes are bright blue.

Anonymous: Ocean Eyes

Kayla Beltran: Surreal landscape 1
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
Butterflies and a face with blue hair and cat ears

Matthew Jeffris: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a rose

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

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

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

Jimena Saldana: Where Is My Mind?

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

Melanie Canales: Untitled
Graphite drawing of a girl's face up close

Anonymous: Duality
Pencil drawing of sunglasses, pencil, flask, keychain

Dylan Henke: Let’s Go For A Ride
Painted still life with a My Little Pony

Anonymous: Still Life
A rainbow background with a small moon and a black bat

Anonymous: Beautiful Bats
portrait with a body where the person's brain would be

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

Anonymous: Focus
A painting of two girls laying together among bushes and plants

Ava Ortiz: A Kiss
Painting of trees on a lake in front of a sunset

Anabel Perez: Rainbow Water
An Aseprite Animation

Donald Richard: Thundercat

Amare’ Williamson: Frankenstein Montage
A black and white photo of a piece of paper with two hands holding pencils

Yailin Gomez: In Our Minds
Green person leaning against pink rock with an american flag on it

Adrian Lopez: Bitter-sweet

Anonymous: Living in the Pandemic
Digital drawing of two women kissing

Anonymous: Forbidden Lovers
Black and white drawing of a boy in front of a house

Anonymous: Self Portrait
Drawing of a young girl with her hands on her face

Anonymous: Sofia
A painting of a family set against a dark background

Anonymous: What Once Was

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

Roxana Servin: Matriarchy
A painting of Donald Trump with devil horns and a tail with the word El Diablo written underneath

Anonymous: El Diablo (The Devil)

Natali Reyes Luna: Streakahedron
Abstract painting

Anonymous: Untitled

Avra Raman: Untitled
A black print of a skeleton with a tree in the background

Anonymous: Untitled

Emma Chung: White Noise
A photograph of the inside of a building looking down from a top floor

Anonymous: Water Tower
Closeup self portrait in orange color with sunglasses

Ralph Lasalle: Self Portrait

Anonymous: Untitled
Colorful underwater scene

Trent Landsberger: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic

Anonymous: Untitled

Haily Roman: Cluster
Photograph of two towels hanging on a bar

Angelica Arriaga: Fairy of Shampoo
drawing of eye

Anonymous: Possess
Painting of flowers with a colorful border

Anonymous: Distraction
Green digital drawing with eye in center

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Antonio Olvera: Building in 2 point perspective
hands surrounded by fabrics using a sewing machine

Anonymous: Possession

Melanie Canales: Untitled
Painting of moon setting over the ocean

Anonymous: Luna
A digital mosaic of 3 pink flowers and leaves

Yadira Guaman: Digital Mosaic
Very colorful digital drawing of a cemetery with papel picado

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

Tanijah Callahan: Renascent
A digital illustration of a woman with her face painted like a Dia del los Muertos skull

Yoselin Mata: Day of the Dead
A black and white photo of a car in the snow with the trunk open

Karolina Mancilla: Untitled

Anonymous: Self-Portrait showing movement and Light
Watercolor portrait of a woman with an orange hat

Natalie Becker-Stevens: Portrait
A black and white drawing of a scene with an eyeball looking cage

Austin Washington: Eye Drawing
Drawing of a bee on a sunflower with the world in the middle

Moreno Leslie: Giving Life
Newspaper headline collage

Anonymous: Read All About It
Gif of person laying on a bed screaming AAAHHHH

Olivia Kluska: Constant Pain
Painting of a cheetah with glasses

Katia Gomez: Alter ego

Cole Ham: Toucan

Anahi Alcala: A Starry Night Past New Home
digital portrait of person with dark hair and multiple nose piercings

Justin Echols: Focus
Drawing of flowers and bees

Diaz Emily: Dance to survive
digital drawing of a person in all black with a gray background

Anonymous: Self Portrait

Taryn Landsberger: Critical Low

Kelby McMorris: Untitled
sculpture of triangular shapes with spray painted colorful circles

Anonymous: Day at the Circus
A mixed media artwork of a bird person covered in colorful feathers

Anonymous: Feather Dance
A landscape drawing of a lake and a tree

Emeline Ramirez: Yoakum Mixed Media Landscape
Portrait of a woman with glasses on a purple background

Kelby McMorris: Mom
Image of little girl with hands on her knees looking at something

Anonymous: Little Kaylen In Wonderland

Anonymous: Peace of Mind
Mandala of blue and red triangles and circles

Alexis Ariza: Mandala
Dark photograph of youth at night on the street

Alyssa Rosado: 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
Stop motion animation of green person playing basketball

Lucila Cerna: Jugando Basquetbol (Playing Basketball)
Red digital drawing of a face with two eyes

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

Katie Kaukialo: Happiness
abstract drawing

Anonymous: Untitled (Make Remake)
An Aseprite Animation

Abby Moon-Sarudi: Everything Stays
A warm drawing of a waterfall coming off a cliff with oranges and reds

Giselle Raigosa: Manai Falls, Takachiho Gorge, Japan
Graphite still life drawing of various objects

Cora Mangual: Emptiness
Drawing of bodies

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Samantha Hasselquist: Stretched Convergence
An abstract sculpture with mixed materials of red, yellow, and blue

Natalie Mora: The Primary
Paper roll sculpture

Anonymous: Black Knowledge
Collage portrait of two figures

Rachel Deveyra: Collage Self-Portrait
I was not An Imposter with Among Us astronaut pained on glass in black frame.

Anonymous: Red Is Sus
Two blue hands raising toward a red cube with a smiley face

Veronica Timble: Glorpo Loves You

Anonymous: Monochromatic Landscape

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

Fonseca Naomi: Laconic-Expressing Much In Few Words
A blue and purple illustration of a floating building with lights

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

Jessie Kocur: Untitled

Daniela Marroquin: Modern Scream
person in black and red dress lays on blue sheets.

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: ADORN
Watercolor of 1/2 of a person's face in front of waterfront

Edana Lynch: Self Portrait
Drawing of building with smoke stack behind it

Anonymous: The Old Days

Isabela Torres: Little Soldier

Anonymous: Life on a computer

Anonymous: Abstract

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: She Loves Me
Black and white construction paper highlighting positive/negative space

Anonymous: Positive-Negative Art

Genevieve Teplitz: Untitled

Anonymous: Stop Closing Your Eyes

Anonymous: padre nuestro
Colorful abstract drawing.

Trent Landsberger: World of Colour

Zadie Beaty: America’s Faces

Jhazmin Lucero: A childs routine during a pandemic

Anonymous: Revolution of a Broken Heart Pt. II

Zoe Haritos: A Photo Memory

Annabel Multer: Bread Turtle
Digital drawing of a colorful skeleton

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

Anonymous: Untitled
photograph of person behind lattice with plants

Rachel Deveyra: Plant
A ceramic hand with a closed fist holding a rose and stem of small flowers

Annabella Lau: A Choking Endeavor
A graphic design with words creating the image of an earth on fire

Arturo Garcia: Our Changing World

Anonymous: Grandma

Anonymous: Dwight White

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Mother
Photo of the light going across someone's body as they lay in a bed of white sheets

Jersey Benjamin: Elias
hand with 2 fingers in the little pocket of a pair of jeans

Annabel Multer: untitled

Oluwatooke Elusanmi: Gyaru
An abstract photograph of symmetrical shapes like an inkblot

Anonymous: Detatched
painting of hands playing dominoes

Anonymous: Untitled

Stephanie Simpson: stststst
Red drawing of a girl with a blue drawing of a girl upside down above her

Maria Mancero: Hot and Cold

Nora McDermott: Changes
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
Drawing of feet and rubber duck in a tub

Cesar Garcia: Afloat
Drawing of skeleton on fire

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

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: El borracho

Mia Kiefer: Duin
A painting of orange and yellow mountains under a blue sky

Michael Dominguez: Untitled
Digital drawing of red rabbit on the phone

Natalia Rozenek: A Threatening Presence
Drawing of roman figures on a mountain side with an orange sky.

Auren Boynton: Rose Oil
A painting of a young woman looking to the side

Keyla Estrada: The Wandering Woman
A mixed media sculpture of a mannequin head with wooden spikes coming out of the face

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

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

Reginae Echols: The Black Woman’s Burden
Space man Helmut in front of black space

Makenna Yoho: Alone in Space
Drawing of a girl with monarch butterflies

Anonymous: Monarcha

Adrian Panopio: Homage to Stacey Abrams, the Saint of Voting Rights
drawing of jewelry on white sheet

Yessenia Martinez: Adorn

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

Anonymous: Friendship
A digital drawing of a blue cat

Iliana Hernandez: Cat
A digital illustration of a mouth with pink lips and white teeth

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

Salas Jocelyn: The Parasite of Opinion

Auttum Thomas: Still Life
A painting of a man in a yellow jacket and blue hat holding a baby

Anonymous: Gift From Heaven

Isyss Whittmon: Mood Swings
Drawing of person with megaphone that says "Please Stand By" surrounded by a kaleidoscopic pattern

Osvaldo Salgado: Please Stand By

Kayla Beltran: Desert Skull

Anonymous: Duin
Digital drawing of a plane wing

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of colored patterns

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

Gabriella Rivero-Fundora: La bomba
A drawing of a girl doing her makeup and her reflection in the mirror

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

Anonymous: Stuck at Home

Zoe Haritos: Sweeter Than Candy

Auttum Thomas: Sound Poem

Kael Carmona: Fishbowl

Anonymous: Orb
Colored pencil drawing of a girl with red hair

Anonymous: How You Doin’?

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Sophia Clinard-Rubio: Body
Portrait of a man in a yellow hat holding sonic the hedgehog

Anonymous: Diary of Zack Villere

Anonymous: Ruth, the Flowering Justice
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.
Drawing of a tree with burned and ripped book pages and an orange sun

Molly Perez: Prison on My Mind
Colorful underwater scene

Anonymous: Trent’s henri rousseau aquatic

Nina Figurelli: Untitled
The shape of a face with the word vote

Anonymous: Get Out The Vote Poster

Anonymous: “All of Us”

Anonymous: snake

Eion Magana: Going Nowhere

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

Samantha Berger: His Life’s Work
Black and white drawing of a robotic woman

Anonymous: Robotic Consumption

Anonymous: Dwight White
Paint of a desk with plans and curtains

Thalia Witkovsky: 9:37 PM
Drawing of a bare back with two hands on the shoulder.

CJ Gordon: Maman
Painting of a woman with a colorful background

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

Anonymous: The Bubble
tangled mess of gold necklaces

Nathan Dixon: Tangled Together
A painting of a black woman with words written on her body

Brenda Dickerson: Dear Black Women
Colorful torn paper collage

Anonymous: Springtime
Drawing of a woman sitting in a hair salon

Anonymous: Another Day at The Hair Salon
Digital drawing of people with multiple faces around them

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

Anonymous: We the People
Abstract painting with light colors

Fatima Choudhry: Was I your home?
Drawing of a woman wearing a headscarf with a red line across her eyes

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

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

Anonymous: Hockney Joiner Lanterns
black cat on starry night background

Katherine Uruchima: “Oh, what the cat sees”
graphite line drawing of one of Calder's wire gestural sculptures

Kymia Ferguson: Gesture
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
A figure drawing from the front, back, and side of a girl with green hair

Anonymous: WRAH! T-Pose
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