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.

Dianna Miguel: KAMI!

Sofia Aguilar – 100 Lost Souls

Itzel Merlos: Untitled
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a detailed bird.

Anonymous: Omen
Abstract painting

Margot Lavie: Untitled
3d book art.

Adelina Brown: The So Long Saloon

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: The Fields

Anonymous: Gods Painting of the Sky

Zoe Crooks: Torn Away and Stuck Together
Painting made up of lines.

Shamya Butler: Untitled

Margareth Cervantes: A Slice of Summer

Anonymous: Crying

Kijah Woods: Untitled
A mixed media portrait of Harriet Tubman. Behind her is a geometric pattern.

Anonymous: Harriet Tubman
A woman holds her face in her hands.

Maria Brito: Entrendre
Drawing of a person with a flower head.

Anonymous: Untitled

Kijah Woods: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of a dog.

Paige Meegan: Daisy
A three dimensional piece of a bust with plants around it.

Anonymous: The Beauty of Femininity
Drawing of a money and two male subjects.

Agata Siwinska: Fear Ink

Anonymous: 정

Anonymous: Two Gauntlets, One Goal
Photo of a boy.

Nora Campos: Day to Day

Grace Devathala: Jeremiah
Abstract blue line painting.

Cesar Nunez: Rain

Anonymous: Deflated Cube Vase

Anonymous: Deflated
A photo of granola and a jar of food.

Anonymous: Souvenirs

Anonymous: Conch and Her Cave

Anonymous: Return
A picture of a diner on a street.

Esmeralda Hernandez-Galan: Don’s Grill
A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach

Maite Armijos: Untitled

Kashmala Khalid: Kite Flying
Red flowers and two kittens.

Auren Boynton: Under Red Peonies
Photo of a boy.

Stephanie Manzo: Eddie
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: Sunny Octopus

Anonymous: Maeve Day

Anonymous: Graceful Arcs
A rounded oval clay piece with a white angel.

Anonymous: Untitled

Sainabu Akinlolu: Endless Fall
A table filled with food and a family surrounding it.

Saskya Lema Lema: Ofrenda

Anonymous: Myself
Pants sewn together using a floral patterned fabric. The flowers are red and pink and the background is tan.

Anonymous: Floral Blanket Pants

Anonymous: Untitled
Picture of steam engine train.

Jennifer Carlson: Head in the Clouds

Anonymous: Bowie

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Multicolor Bucket

Margareth Cervantes: Last Birthday

Anonymous: Free from Rejection of Belief
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
The faces of two children are covered by thread.

Jennifer Aguilera-Martinez: Recuerdos

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: Buena Suerte Hija

Alek Klee : All for one and one for all
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
Abstract sculpture of a gray monster.

Emily Lach: Pinch Pot Monster
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: Eagle Bodybuilder
Collage of a cherry tree and a garden with a butterfly.

Anonymous: Sunny Day

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Van Gogh’s Ear
A drawing of a building with a batman logo. There are trees below the building and a hanging spider web.

Anonymous: Untitled
Ceramic Thank you plastic bag.

Alina Calatayud: Thank You

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a fly trap.

Victoria Bobadilla: Fly Trap
Painting of a beach.

Paige Meegan: Daytona Beach

Anonymous: Contamination
A painting of a zoomed in eyeball with eyelashes and a tear coming down. The painting is green, white and pink.

Anonymous: Emerald Eyes
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

Camille Daley: Ghosting

Anonymous: Untitled

Lisa Patel: Shadows Behind The Ligh
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
Pop art portrait of an older woman.

Jocelyn Ibarra: Grandmother

Anonymous: Raccotter
Hand in a ring light.

Alex Chitnis: The World is in Your Palms

Isabella Flores: Untitled
Cartoon whale underwater.

Nikki Pham: Deep Sea Whale

Maria Guayara: Is it you or him in the mirror?
Drawing of a geometric character with sharp teeth. The character has blue and purple.

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

Anonymous: Unknown Love Letter

Enesa Grebovic: Old Bridge

Anonymous: Untitled 2
A person on a clock with a leash around their neck being pulled out by a hand

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

Anonymous: Eye Watcher

Anonymous: Rooms
Abstract drawing.

Valeria Miranda: Untitled
Strips of painted paper that alternate between two images of a woman.

Mayra Jimenez: What Makes You Stay Awake? Stress.
Collage of ship at sea and rubber ducks.

Carolina Loja: Not all troubles are tragic

Sonia Urbina: Stolen Innocence

Alondra Torres: Cristalo
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

Bianca Burnett: Untitled
Drawing of someone cutting food.

Anonymous: Mother

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled I
Photo of a trumpet and rose.

Jesus Chavarria: Rusty Bloom

Anonymous: Why’d the octopus cross the river?

Anonymous: Untitled 3

Anonymous: Summer at the Weltons
A charcoal on paper drawing of a folded up paper boat. The boat is designed with drawn creatures.

Anonymous: Paper Boat

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled II

Anonymous: Shells of the Self

Zoe Crooks: Colors of the night
painting of a blue teapot

Jaclyn Manning: Teapot Blues

Anonymous: Kandi
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
Drawing of a girl with a hair full of flowers.

Yrva Desormeaux: The Girl In Flowers

Anonymous: Archeology, 3500 A.C.
painting of a diner

Jaclyn Manning: “A Lick of Childhood.”

Kathryn Warren: Anxiety
Drawing of sunflowers in vase.

Zaida Soumanou: Untitled
A man in profile with a long tongue.

Anonymous: Venom
Colorful abstract photography.

Alex Chitnis: Rainbow Breeze

Anonymous: Crowd of people, all with different backgrounds and cultures
A person playing a bagpipe.

Eoin McNamara: The Uilleann Piper

Anonymous: Double Portrait
Fabric textile resembling a sunset.

Mia Schlessinger: Untitled
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
Monster and a german shepard.

Chloe Mitchell: Monsters in our World

Nicholaus Asiyanbi: Degenerate’s Paradise
Boulders overlooking a lake and pine needle branches.

Gloria Chavarin: Watercolor Landscape

Anahi Alcala: Wake Up

Caius Boynton: Mina and the Mouse
Painting of a skull.

Anonymous: Untitled

Amna Trebovic: On and Off the Court

Sofia Comas: Accretion
Drawing of a character.

Giselle Raigosa: Not Your Genius, Not Your Prodigy

Emily Moron – Devoted

Joseph Morco: My Exploration

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

Anonymous: Outwards
Collage with anatomy and book scraps.

Anahi Alcala: Physically Unharmed
Sculpture of an opossum character.

Christian Harper: Lazarus

Anonymous: Altered by the Past
A three legged bowl with a shallow lip.

Anonymous: Aztec Bowl

Josephine Martorana: Hurt

Anonymous: Untitled
A girl floats in a bathtub. She is surrounded by flowers.

Anonymous: Flower Bed

Anonymous: Destruction (The Cycle)

Madeline Yundt: Untitled
Mask with splatter paint.

Jaylen Wells: Messy Truth

Anonymous: Untitled

Trissa Tsang: In the clouds
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a rabbit surrounded by desert flowers.

Anonymous: Desert Flower
An Andy Warhol inspired oil pastel drawing. 4 repeated cupcakes with different vibrant colors.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Church

Amani Mohammad: A Simple Reflection
A ceramic mug with a face like a cat.

Anonymous: Self-Portrait Mug

Yareli Vaquera : Ayuda
A round metal with mountains, trees and a bear.

Niamh Hughes: Chasing the Peaks

Anonymous: Difference
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

Anonymous: Untitled
A white crewneck with a tan floral patterned sleeve.

Anonymous: Floral Crew Neck
A drawing of a person walking towards a giant pair of ribs. There is a dog walking with the person.

Anonymous: Discovery
Collage work of a abstract snake.

Evelina Poole: Frozen by Fear

Sofia Aguilar – Maneater

Anonymous: Tiger

Anonymous: Snake

Camille Daley: Better Together

Anonymous: Present-day flowers

Salome Camelo Bocanegra: Portrait of the Weekend
Illustration of a city and mountain landscape with bright colors.

Daniella Xu: Dusk

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of underwater plants.

Jae Nguyen: Lily Pads
Drawing of someone waiting for train.

Anonymous: Crash

Clarence De Guzman: Cloudy Morning
A bowl of pozole with an avocado and coca cola.

Alondra Castillo: Pozole de mi Abuela
Black and white photo of a lighthouse.

Jake Pridgen: From one end of the pier

Anonymous: Untitled 1

Anonymous: Untitled Self Portrait

Katherine Valerio: Portrait of Kehinde Wiley

Anonymous: Seeing Blossoms

Anonymous: Chili snake
Colorful paper mache sculpture.

Emeline Ramirez: Guía
A painting of a sunset along the beach.

Anonymous: Beachside Sunset

Anonymous: Untitled
Clay sculpture of a squirrel.

Patrick O’Connor: Untitled

Yumeri Garcia: “Nuestro America, Our Life”

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

Anonymous: Lifted
Portrait drawing of an older man.

Una Reyes: Una Luz Reyes rendition of St

Anonymous: Ghostly Change
Abstract splatter portrait art.

Julieana Cosajay: Narcissist
A bull charges an alligator.

Anonymous: Untitled

Bailey Taylor: Infected
Orange and blue abstract painting.

Daja Jackson: Ocean Vs Fire

Anonymous: Inverted
A collage of a house in front of mountains.

Jazleen Esquivel: Home
Black and white drawing of leaves.

LaJuan Williams: Evolution of Nature
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: Untitled

Anonymous: Route 666

Anonymous: Flowers of Amber

Amy Najera: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

Eloise Park: Crossata
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