CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2023 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.

Colorful abstract photography.

Alex Chitnis: Rainbow Breeze

Anonymous: Van Gogh’s Ear

Anonymous: Route 666
Abstract painting

Margot Lavie: Untitled
Collage with anatomy and book scraps.

Anahi Alcala: Physically Unharmed
A collage of a house in front of mountains.

Jazleen Esquivel: Home
A yellow, blue, green and black linocut reduction print of a pair of glasses. Inside the glasses view is an Addison street sign and a teddy bear. There is a sun in the background corner and eyes that are open and shut.

Sharon Oladapo: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
A table filled with food and a family surrounding it.

Saskya Lema Lema: Ofrenda

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a geometric character with sharp teeth. The character has blue and purple.

Anonymous: Color Shape
Boulders overlooking a lake and pine needle branches.

Gloria Chavarin: Watercolor Landscape
A painting of a sunset along the beach.

Anonymous: Beachside Sunset
Mask with splatter paint.

Jaylen Wells: Messy Truth

Anonymous: Crowd of people, all with different backgrounds and cultures
Pop art portrait of an older woman.

Jocelyn Ibarra: Grandmother

Salome Camelo Bocanegra: Portrait of the Weekend

Anonymous: Flowers of Amber
Picture of steam engine train.

Jennifer Carlson: Head in the Clouds

Anonymous: Kandi

Anonymous: Chili snake
A picture of a diner on a street.

Esmeralda Hernandez-Galan: Don’s Grill

Anonymous: Untitled

Camille Daley: Ghosting
A round metal with mountains, trees and a bear.

Niamh Hughes: Chasing the Peaks

Anonymous: Bowie

Itzel Merlos: Untitled

Anonymous: Inverted
A person on a clock with a leash around their neck being pulled out by a hand

Anonymous: Untitled
painting of a blue teapot

Jaclyn Manning: Teapot Blues
A photo of granola and a jar of food.

Anonymous: Souvenirs
Collage of a cherry tree and a garden with a butterfly.

Anonymous: Sunny Day

Anonymous: Rooms
Photo of a trumpet and rose.

Jesus Chavarria: Rusty Bloom

Enesa Grebovic: Old Bridge
Colorful paper mache sculpture.

Emeline Ramirez: Guía

Zoe Crooks: Colors of the night

Sainabu Akinlolu: Endless Fall

Bianca Burnett: Untitled
Abstract drawing.

Valeria Miranda: Untitled
Fabric textile resembling a sunset.

Mia Schlessinger: Untitled

Margareth Cervantes: Last Birthday
Red flowers and two kittens.

Auren Boynton: Under Red Peonies

Amy Najera: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

Anonymous: Summer at the Weltons
Photo of a boy.

Stephanie Manzo: Eddie

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: The Fields
Drawing of someone cutting food.

Anonymous: Mother

Anonymous: Untitled
Illustration of a city and mountain landscape with bright colors.

Daniella Xu: Dusk

Anonymous: Myself
A painting of a girl holding a Ukranian flag in one hand and an American flag in the other hand. On the left side there are flames. On the right side there is the Willis Tower and other Chicago buildings. She is facing the flames and city.

Anonymous: The New World
A pencil drawing of a person's face. Around the face are different scenes drawn from the person's life.

Anonymous: Seeing Through The Past
Hand in a ring light.

Alex Chitnis: The World is in Your Palms

Anonymous: Contamination

Anonymous: Untitled

Lisa Patel: Shadows Behind The Ligh

Anonymous: Ghostly Change
Photo of a boy.

Nora Campos: Day to Day

Anonymous: Untitled

Clarence De Guzman: Cloudy Morning

Anonymous: Seeing Blossoms

Anahi Alcala: Wake Up

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled I
Painting of a dog.

Paige Meegan: Daisy

Kashmala Khalid: Kite Flying

Katherine Valerio: Portrait of Kehinde Wiley
An Andy Warhol inspired oil pastel drawing. 4 repeated cupcakes with different vibrant colors.

Anonymous: Untitled

Josephine Martorana: Hurt
painting of a diner

Jaclyn Manning: “A Lick of Childhood.”
3d book art.

Adelina Brown: The So Long Saloon
Collage of ship at sea and rubber ducks.

Carolina Loja: Not all troubles are tragic
A student gives two thumbs up. To his left, a student looks to the left. To his right, two students look down to the right.

Anonymous: P R I D E

Anonymous: Conch and Her Cave

Anonymous: Multicolor Bucket

Anonymous: Why’d the octopus cross the river?
A woman holds her face in her hands.

Maria Brito: Entrendre
Portrait drawing of an older man.

Una Reyes: Una Luz Reyes rendition of St
A collage of Wednesday Adams at the center. The background has various paper cutouts in silver, black and purple. There are 2 safety pins. One is adhering a piece of black cloth.

Anonymous: Wednesday Addams

Grace Devathala: Jeremiah
Drawing of a person with a flower head.

Anonymous: Untitled
The faces of two children are covered by thread.

Jennifer Aguilera-Martinez: Recuerdos
Clay sculpture of a squirrel.

Patrick O’Connor: Untitled
Ceramic Thank you plastic bag.

Alina Calatayud: Thank You
Drawing of sunflowers in vase.

Zaida Soumanou: Untitled
A charcoal on paper drawing of a folded up paper boat. The boat is designed with drawn creatures.

Anonymous: Paper Boat
Orange and blue abstract painting.

Daja Jackson: Ocean Vs Fire

Sofia Aguilar – Maneater
A mixed media artpiece of an American Flag with 1 star. There are written words around the star reading "In God We Trust."

Anonymous: In God We Trust

Anonymous: Untitled

Yareli Vaquera : Ayuda

Dianna Miguel: KAMI!

Caius Boynton: Mina and the Mouse

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: Buena Suerte Hija
A person drawn 3 times. One is facing forward holding an art tool. Another one is facing the right side holding an Ipad and stylus. The last one is facing the right side holding another art tool.

Anonymous: 150 Hours

Anonymous: Raccotter

Anonymous: Untitled Self Portrait
A rounded oval clay piece with a white angel.

Anonymous: Untitled

Alondra Torres: Cristalo

Margareth Cervantes: A Slice of Summer

Alek Klee : All for one and one for all

Anonymous: Eagle Bodybuilder
An oil pastel and marker drawing of a hand holding a love letter from a secret admirer addressed to Pearl.

Anonymous: Unknown Love Letter
A person playing a bagpipe.

Eoin McNamara: The Uilleann Piper

Kijah Woods: Untitled

Kijah Woods: Untitled
A painting of two body figures at the center hugging each other closely. Surrounding them is a white triangle pattern on a black background. The background has circles that are painted red and yellow.

Anonymous: Untitled
A ceramic mug with a face like a cat.

Anonymous: Self-Portrait Mug

Eloise Park: Crossata
A girl floats in a bathtub. She is surrounded by flowers.

Anonymous: Flower Bed

Anonymous: Untitled 2
A blue woven piece with green leaves woven into the fiber. There is a red rectangle on the upper left corner.

Anonymous: Outwards

Anonymous: Church

Anonymous: Maeve Day

Anonymous: Untitled
A three legged bowl with a shallow lip.

Anonymous: Aztec Bowl
Black and white drawing of leaves.

LaJuan Williams: Evolution of Nature
A drawing of a top-down view of a person crying. On their head is a red pattern that spills onto the persons hands.

Anonymous: Break In

Anonymous: Untitled
Monster and a german shepard.

Chloe Mitchell: Monsters in our World
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a rabbit surrounded by desert flowers.

Anonymous: Desert Flower

Anonymous: Crying
A three dimensional piece of a bust with plants around it.

Anonymous: The Beauty of Femininity
A digital piece of a woman standing in water with her eyes closed and hair flowing upwards.

Anonymous: Lifted

Joseph Morco: My Exploration
An acrylic painting of a tree blowing in the wind. There is a blue sky with clouds in the background. The tree is standing on green grass beside a blue body of water.

Anonymous: Windy City
A drawing of a building with a batman logo. There are trees below the building and a hanging spider web.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Deflated Cube Vase

Emily Moron – Devoted
Pants sewn together using a floral patterned fabric. The flowers are red and pink and the background is tan.

Anonymous: Floral Blanket Pants

Kathryn Warren: Anxiety

Anonymous: Deflated

Amna Trebovic: On and Off the Court

Anonymous: Gods Painting of the Sky
A bull charges an alligator.

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a fly trap.

Victoria Bobadilla: Fly Trap
Abstract sculpture of a gray monster.

Emily Lach: Pinch Pot Monster

Madeline Yundt: Untitled
Collage work of a abstract snake.

Evelina Poole: Frozen by Fear
A drawing of a person walking towards a giant pair of ribs. There is a dog walking with the person.

Anonymous: Discovery

Bailey Taylor: Infected
A white crewneck with a tan floral patterned sleeve.

Anonymous: Floral Crew Neck

Trissa Tsang: In the clouds

Maite Armijos: Untitled
A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach
Drawing of a character.

Giselle Raigosa: Not Your Genius, Not Your Prodigy

Anonymous: Untitled 3

Zoe Crooks: Torn Away and Stuck Together

Maria Guayara: Is it you or him in the mirror?
Drawing of a girl with a hair full of flowers.

Yrva Desormeaux: The Girl In Flowers

Anonymous: Present-day flowers

Anonymous: 정

Sonia Urbina: Stolen Innocence
A man in profile with a long tongue.

Anonymous: Venom

Anonymous: Antique Ambiance

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Destruction (The Cycle)

Isabella Flores: Untitled
A watercolor painting of a dragon embracing a heart organ. There is a cigarette close to the dragon as it embraces the heart.

Anonymous: Health

Anonymous: Melodic Reflections
Abstract blue line painting.

Cesar Nunez: Rain

Nicholaus Asiyanbi: Degenerate’s Paradise
A painting of a zoomed in eyeball with eyelashes and a tear coming down. The painting is green, white and pink.

Anonymous: Emerald Eyes

Anonymous: Shells of the Self

Amani Mohammad: A Simple Reflection

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Return

Anonymous: Difference

Anonymous: Growth of Hope
Strips of painted paper that alternate between two images of a woman.

Mayra Jimenez: What Makes You Stay Awake? Stress.
Drawing of someone waiting for train.

Anonymous: Crash
A mixed media portrait of Harriet Tubman. Behind her is a geometric pattern.

Anonymous: Harriet Tubman
A monochromatic pink painting of one eye with a thin tree placed in front of it.

Anonymous: Eye Watcher

Sofia Aguilar – 100 Lost Souls
A bowl of pozole with an avocado and coca cola.

Alondra Castillo: Pozole de mi Abuela

Anonymous: Graceful Arcs

Anonymous: Untitled

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled II
Painting made up of lines.

Shamya Butler: Untitled
Painting of a skull.

Anonymous: Untitled
Sculpture of an opossum character.

Christian Harper: Lazarus
Drawing of a money and two male subjects.

Agata Siwinska: Fear Ink
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a detailed bird.

Anonymous: Omen

Anonymous: Sunny Octopus
Painting of a beach.

Paige Meegan: Daytona Beach

Yumeri Garcia: “Nuestro America, Our Life”

Anonymous: Two Gauntlets, One Goal
Painting of underwater plants.

Jae Nguyen: Lily Pads

Anonymous: Altered by the Past
Abstract splatter portrait art.

Julieana Cosajay: Narcissist

Anonymous: Tiger
Black and white photo of a lighthouse.

Jake Pridgen: From one end of the pier

Anonymous: Snake

Anonymous: Archeology, 3500 A.C.

Sofia Comas: Accretion

Camille Daley: Better Together

Anonymous: Double Portrait
Cartoon whale underwater.

Nikki Pham: Deep Sea Whale

Anonymous: Untitled 1

Anonymous: Free from Rejection of Belief
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