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.

Anonymous: Difference

Amna Trebovic: On and Off the Court
Illustration of a city and mountain landscape with bright colors.

Daniella Xu: Dusk

Amy Najera: Portrait of Frida Kahlo
A photo of granola and a jar of food.

Anonymous: Souvenirs
Abstract sculpture of a gray monster.

Emily Lach: Pinch Pot Monster

Anonymous: Untitled Self Portrait
Pop art portrait of an older woman.

Jocelyn Ibarra: Grandmother
Portrait drawing of an older man.

Una Reyes: Una Luz Reyes rendition of St

Anonymous: Untitled
Colorful abstract photography.

Alex Chitnis: Rainbow Breeze
Black and white photo of a lighthouse.

Jake Pridgen: From one end of the pier

Zoe Crooks: Torn Away and Stuck Together

Anonymous: Rooms
Picture of steam engine train.

Jennifer Carlson: Head in the Clouds
A picture of a diner on a street.

Esmeralda Hernandez-Galan: Don’s Grill
Black and white drawing of leaves.

LaJuan Williams: Evolution of Nature

Anonymous: Contamination

Anonymous: Kandi
A man in profile with a long tongue.

Anonymous: Venom
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a detailed bird.

Anonymous: Omen

Anonymous: Melodic Reflections

Anonymous: Conch and Her Cave

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

Saskya Lema Lema: Ofrenda
Mask with splatter paint.

Jaylen Wells: Messy Truth
A girl floats in a bathtub. She is surrounded by flowers.

Anonymous: Flower Bed

Anonymous: Route 666

Yumeri Garcia: “Nuestro America, Our Life”

Anonymous: Archeology, 3500 A.C.

Anonymous: Tiger
Drawing of someone cutting food.

Anonymous: Mother

Anonymous: Raccotter
Drawing of a person with a flower head.

Anonymous: Untitled
Monster and a german shepard.

Chloe Mitchell: Monsters in our World
Fabric textile resembling a sunset.

Mia Schlessinger: Untitled

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled I
Photo of a boy.

Stephanie Manzo: Eddie

Anonymous: Graceful Arcs

Anonymous: Church
Clay sculpture of a squirrel.

Patrick O’Connor: Untitled
Painting of a dog.

Paige Meegan: Daisy
Strips of painted paper that alternate between two images of a woman.

Mayra Jimenez: What Makes You Stay Awake? Stress.

Anonymous: Untitled

Margareth Cervantes: Last Birthday

Kathryn Warren: Anxiety

Anonymous: Snake

Anonymous: Summer at the Weltons

Anonymous: Sunny Octopus
A collage of a house in front of mountains.

Jazleen Esquivel: Home
Drawing of a geometric character with sharp teeth. The character has blue and purple.

Anonymous: Color Shape

Madeline Yundt: Untitled
An oil pastel and marker drawing of a hand holding a love letter from a secret admirer addressed to Pearl.

Anonymous: Unknown Love Letter

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

Anonymous: Floral Blanket Pants

Sonia Urbina: Stolen Innocence

Lisa Patel: Shadows Behind The Ligh
Orange and blue abstract painting.

Daja Jackson: Ocean Vs Fire
Red flowers and two kittens.

Auren Boynton: Under Red Peonies

Anonymous: Multicolor Bucket

Anonymous: Antique Ambiance

Anonymous: Growth of Hope
A rounded oval clay piece with a white angel.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Kijah Woods: Untitled
Collage of a cherry tree and a garden with a butterfly.

Anonymous: Sunny Day

Clarence De Guzman: Cloudy Morning
3d book art.

Adelina Brown: The So Long Saloon

Anonymous: Van Gogh’s Ear

Anonymous: Untitled
A round metal with mountains, trees and a bear.

Niamh Hughes: Chasing the Peaks

Anonymous: Inverted

Zoe Crooks: Colors of the night
Abstract drawing.

Valeria Miranda: Untitled

Alek Klee : All for one and one for all

Anonymous: Flowers of Amber

Anonymous: Deflated

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled II

Josephine Martorana: Hurt
The faces of two children are covered by thread.

Jennifer Aguilera-Martinez: Recuerdos
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
Boulders overlooking a lake and pine needle branches.

Gloria Chavarin: Watercolor Landscape

Anonymous: Maeve Day

Anonymous: Free from Rejection of Belief
painting of a blue teapot

Jaclyn Manning: Teapot Blues

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: The Fields

Bianca Burnett: Untitled

Anonymous: Double Portrait
Cartoon whale underwater.

Nikki Pham: Deep Sea Whale
Hand in a ring light.

Alex Chitnis: The World is in Your Palms

Anonymous: Crowd of people, all with different backgrounds and cultures

Salome Camelo Bocanegra: Portrait of the Weekend
A person on a clock with a leash around their neck being pulled out by a hand

Anonymous: Untitled
Painting of a beach.

Paige Meegan: Daytona Beach
Ceramic Thank you plastic bag.

Alina Calatayud: Thank You

Anonymous: Untitled
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

Alondra Torres: Cristalo
A bowl of pozole with an avocado and coca cola.

Alondra Castillo: Pozole de mi Abuela

Katherine Valerio: Portrait of Kehinde Wiley

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

Anonymous: Eye Watcher
Sculpture of an opossum character.

Christian Harper: Lazarus

Anonymous: Untitled

Sofia Aguilar – 100 Lost Souls
Colorful paper mache sculpture.

Emeline Ramirez: Guía
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

Anonymous: Destruction (The Cycle)

Anonymous: Shells of the Self
Collage with anatomy and book scraps.

Anahi Alcala: Physically Unharmed
Abstract splatter portrait art.

Julieana Cosajay: Narcissist

Grace Devathala: Jeremiah
Collage of ship at sea and rubber ducks.

Carolina Loja: Not all troubles are tragic
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

Yareli Vaquera : Ayuda

Sainabu Akinlolu: Endless Fall

Kashmala Khalid: Kite Flying
A three legged bowl with a shallow lip.

Anonymous: Aztec Bowl

Anonymous: Untitled

Camille Daley: Better Together

Anonymous: Chili snake
Drawing of a character.

Giselle Raigosa: Not Your Genius, Not Your Prodigy
Photo of a boy.

Nora Campos: Day to Day
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 1

Anonymous: Ghostly Change

Anonymous: Gods Painting of the Sky
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: Untitled 3

Margareth Cervantes: A Slice of Summer
Drawing of someone waiting for train.

Anonymous: Crash
painting of a diner

Jaclyn Manning: “A Lick of Childhood.”

Anonymous: Untitled

Eloise Park: Crossata

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

Anonymous: Harriet Tubman

Anonymous: Seeing Blossoms

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: Buena Suerte Hija

Dianna Miguel: KAMI!

Maria Guayara: Is it you or him in the mirror?
A white crewneck with a tan floral patterned sleeve.

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

Anonymous: Outwards

Joseph Morco: My Exploration

Sofia Comas: Accretion

Anonymous: Eagle Bodybuilder
A black and white scratchboard drawing of a rabbit surrounded by desert flowers.

Anonymous: Desert Flower
Painting of underwater plants.

Jae Nguyen: Lily Pads
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
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
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

Anonymous: Present-day flowers
Painting of a skull.

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Yrva Desormeaux: The Girl In Flowers

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Two Gauntlets, One Goal

Isabella Flores: Untitled

Bailey Taylor: Infected

Kijah Woods: Untitled

Camille Daley: Ghosting
An Andy Warhol inspired oil pastel drawing. 4 repeated cupcakes with different vibrant colors.

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

Anonymous: The Beauty of Femininity
A bull charges an alligator.

Anonymous: Untitled

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

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

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

Anonymous: Lifted

Maite Armijos: Untitled

Nicholaus Asiyanbi: Degenerate’s Paradise
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

Emily Moron – Devoted

Sofia Aguilar – Maneater
Abstract blue line painting.

Cesar Nunez: Rain

Enesa Grebovic: Old Bridge
Drawing of sunflowers in vase.

Zaida Soumanou: Untitled

Anahi Alcala: Wake Up

Anonymous: Untitled
Photo of a trumpet and rose.

Jesus Chavarria: Rusty Bloom
Painting made up of lines.

Shamya Butler: Untitled
Drawing of a fly trap.

Victoria Bobadilla: Fly Trap
A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach
A person playing a bagpipe.

Eoin McNamara: The Uilleann Piper
A ceramic mug with a face like a cat.

Anonymous: Self-Portrait Mug

Trissa Tsang: In the clouds
A painting of a sunset along the beach.

Anonymous: Beachside Sunset

Anonymous: Altered by the Past

Anonymous: Return
A woman holds her face in her hands.

Maria Brito: Entrendre
Drawing of a money and two male subjects.

Agata Siwinska: Fear Ink
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

Anonymous: Bowie
Abstract painting

Margot Lavie: Untitled
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

Amani Mohammad: A Simple Reflection

Anonymous: Why’d the octopus cross the river?

Caius Boynton: Mina and the Mouse

Anonymous: Myself

Anonymous: Untitled 2
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