CPS All-City Visual Arts Exhibitions

2024 Senior Portfolio 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 Scholarships.

Donovan Chan: The Endless Now Duology
Motion shot of train passing by

Sam Matznick: Mirror on the Train
Painting of a street in monochrome red

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 1

Azriel Villanueva: Coffee Break
Dark blue storms with water.

Christina Nasios: Stormy Night

Ethan Vazquez: Rinnegan
Black workpants with white printed letters "CDD", shown to be designed by "Geneva Studios".

Rafael Villasenor: Prosperity by Geneva Studios
A pen illustration of complex patterns portraying a coral reef.

Angela Batcheller: Psychedelic Coral Reef

Magdalena Tomaszewski: Untitled
Disembodied eyes populate a red background with a spotlight focused on a small human figure

Karen Ramos: The Perspective.
View of someone holding up a camera through a public bike rack

Jathen Roman: View of Art
Small child with dark eyes and hair looking at the camera with figures behind

Yaretzi Cornelio: Angles
Rapper Young Thug on two sides of the paper, one side he is upside down

Nkonyeasua Osamor: Same Thug
A collage incorporating journal writing and photos juxtaposed against it.

Harrison Brennan: Luca all Over
A photo taken from a dark environment indoors, showing the silhouettes of a line of people against a window that gives a view to trees outside.

Eliana Frost: Birds on a Wire
Crochet vinyl with Black woman on the cover

Naomi Man: OVERLOOKED
Bird eating a nut on dirt with round grey stones in the background

Amri Rodriguez: Survival
Star night with yellow moon and text

Sarai Roman: First Love/ Late Spring
3 story building

Ashley Calderon: Untitled
A chair with a blanket draped over the back, with a notebook and pencil on the seat.

Zhouqi Shao: All Is Ready
Person feeding a small campfire

Javier Martinez: Urban
Airplane flies through clouds with buildings peering through and people pointing down at the plane

Harper Norman: Plane Travel
Birthday cake with blue table cloth.

Valeria Izaguirre: Nostalgia
A collage of a landscape view of a cemetery at night.

Zora Alleyne: Landscape Collage
Valiant samurai on the back of a maip dinosaur

Nived Karthik: Maip Rider
Person laying on a desk

Arlette Sanchez: No Context
Person on their phone on the toilet with a scale, hair tie, towel, and hairbrush on the floor

Karina Vargas: Bathroom Break
Vase half filled with blooming radiant flowers, and the other half with wilted ones.

Emily Chung: Racially Me
A detailed pen illustration of various elements related to Asian culture.

Jasmine Yau: Untitled
A sculpture of a hybrid between a raccoon and an otter.

Macy O’Donnell: Raccotter
Two faces on line work and dark background

Rei Lurie: Retro Emotions
Skateboard with Greek Mythology elements

Janelli Garcia: Helios
3 buildings with blue sky

Ashley Calderon: Untitled
Moody depiction of trash flooding our waters

Kiana Pan: My Ocean, My Home
Older woman sewing designs on fabric

Saskya Lema Lema: Warmi Awana
Red cardinal set on a stark black background

Garry Kuhlmann: Anger Incarnate
Two women hugging in black and white photo

Serena Coleman: Untitled
Galactic imagery juxtaposed on folded squares and triangles composing a larger piece.

Nathaniel Ramirez: Space Travel
Large magenta tulips overhanging a small crayon-doodle image of the same flower

Olivia Kluska: Projections
Cultural ceramic with a tea light and family photo inside

Aeledth Ramirez Tellez: Para ellos

Chloe Mitchell: Childhood Home
Digital elements drawn on top of a photo of a sketchbook with drawings next to a manga novel.

Jae Mccallum: EXml
Family of three with a blue silhouette of a father with a blue background colored in to mimic a child's drawing

Alexandra Force: Repressed Memories
Angry dog look down at bowl outlined in green with the words "Super Groovy" plastered in front

Daniel Salas-Alvarez: Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You
Female wearing a red scrunched up dress standing in a body of water

Charlotte Ochstein: Reef Bleaching Garment
Person with a yellow shirt and blue jeans in front of the planet Earth with a feather sticking out of its head.

Zania Watson: Take Me Back Home
Water with sunset and clouds within an oval.

Alexia Gonzalez: Untitled
Hand gripping a small bird in its palm

Molly Fitzgerald: Grasp
Grey monotone building with bright yellow sun and graffiti style text that says "Brighton Park" and "Rockwell"

Mia Santoyo: Rockwell Street
Collage work of a desert and horses with cowboys.

Agata Siwninska: A Trip
A digital depiction of a church with some elements being "incomplete" by being rendered in white.

Kimberly Arroyo: Untitled
A colorful piece with a girl in a pink dress looking up at a planet and star filled sky.

Sky Asamoah: Otherworldly

Isabella Romero: Flower
A collage of different imagery and pieces of writing.

Jenavieve Savoy: Home
A clay piece with a red crab outline on it.

Veronica Bastek: Crabby
Clay doll house with windows and a candle.

Teresa Geschrey: Dollhaus

Jasmine Cline: Peace of Mind
Black background with white outlines of a family

Sakari Zephier: Family Lines
Collage of a window view of a vespa outside, with indoor elements of a helmet on a table.

Elena Gerick: Bedroom View
Paintings on various cut canvases that depict peoples' faces alike to ones they make in mirrors.

Jemma Wygodny: Mirrors
Loteria card, pan dulce, with coffee and makeup.

Karina Gonzalez: Mamá
To killer whales in dark blue water and mountains

Aleena Corral: Leaping Orca
Portrait of a woman of color

Tamia Criss: Internal Conflict
Paper cut out of pink and blue girl

Galia Quezada: Untitled
A dark face created from plaster with red dripping from the eyes and nose to represent blood.

Jonah Arnold: Untitled
Bright yellows, oranges, reds, and blacks used to show a cat sitting amongst different ingredients.

Ruby Reddy: Sous-Chef
A pen and color pencil illustration of a building, with people walking outside and the colorful word "Cuitzeo".

Giselle Zacarias: Mi Pueblito Magico
Comic book outline with oranges and people

Aidan Olson: Brother’s Quarrel
Stacked carrots

Guadalupe Miranda: Raices
Cats shown inside of the windows of a rocket in space, with planets and stars in the distance.

Amy Diamond: Extra-fur-estrial
Black and white trees on a dusky desaturated blue sky

Christina Nasios: Traveling
Horizon view of a neighborhood

Adam Nawrocki: My Chicago 2
Mix of music notes, feathers, scribbles with an eye in the center

Mia Morales: You is EYE
Tryptic sunset, outline of cityscape, and butterflies.

Gabriela Murcia: Murcia_Gabriela

Maya Bernal: Tarot Cards of Fear
A colorful rendering of two faces meant to represent two perspectives of one person.

Nashaley Aragones: Untitled
A digital illustration of a bee on a red flower, against a blue cloudy sky.

Jack Clark: Bee
A young hand reaching towards a blank white drink amongst detailed black and white renderings of different drinks.

Edwin Santana: Untitled
Girl with black background with stars.

Laura Solis: Night Traveler
Large greenery with pink tree and arch

Jovanny Sostenes: The Wedding
Perspective of a Chicago street at night

Sofia Bush: Old Town Silence
A person listening to music through earbuds facing the night sky.

Sarai Salinas: Home
Plethora of neon green, pink, blues, and purples coloring anatomical pelvis with insect wings and antenna

Jiayi Chen: Pelvis and Newborn
A sculptural piece of a person with a flower head sitting cross-legged.

Emely Ramos: Ceramics
Turtle in blue water

Lia Rodriguez: How Can Tragedy Be Beautiful?

Charlotte Foster: Us
Drawing with color pencil with several items in a room

Kellyn Chavez: Untitled
Illuminated restaurant signs in Chinatown.

Arianna Bodini: Chinatown Lights
A printmaking triptych depicting eggs in a pan.

Thomas Brumley: Breakfast
A subject with decorations in her afro hairstyle, and party decorations laid out around her hair.

Ty-Carmel Elsa: Hair deco

Nicolas Cabrera: Skullution Animation

Karolina Kawula: Zagunie, Laszki
A photo of a side of a house with a forest background.

Aaron Bacon: Untitled
White tray, section with CD with a circular center

Alexis Rivas: Congratulations
Large deep ocean creature approaching a small fish in front of a stark white background.

August Santoro: Prey
Spots, lines with a white background and a house in the middle.

Isabella Kenny: Home
A necklace created by adding red and black elements to a bottle cap.

Zora Alleyne: Sangria

Jaritzi Villegas: PROVECHO!
A juxtaposition of different words and imagery relating to the police in black, white, and red.

Askia Bullie: Who do we call?
Blue light with orange background

Nicolo Valentino: Half and Half
Person working on a table with pictures on the wall

Angelina Lemke: Untitled
Orange room with gril and orange cat.

Jacqueline Montanez: Late Night Shift
A person's head is shown to be opened, containing another head inside.

Linda Bulik: INSIDE
Close-up shot of an eye

Anais Jones: Happy
Digital drawing of a person with a yellow jacket and a helmet with imagery inside it.

Cameron Chinn: Killie Billy
Set of 3 apartment complexes with a human female torso coming out of the top of the second building. Al in a monochromatic red color scheme

Nico Stafford: bodycomplex
Penguin in a suit and hat

Cole Kirk: Who’s in Paris
Blue and purple plants and flowers layered to create a wave.

Jessica Krklus: Wave
Two old men sitting on a CTA with a grainy filter over top

Stephanie Mendoza: Antique Memories – Baldies
Purple flowers

Guadalupe Miranda: Morada
Grey skyline, Christmas tree with elf.

Camila Penaranda: My First Christmas

Kiana Pan: Man-made Witness
Tree with orange spirals with an gold paint.

Marianna Mosz: Family Tree
Train line with buildings from above view

Arthur Hajnos: Chicago Blue Line
White masks with mosaic mirror

Dominique Moran: Untitled
Embroidered rose in its closed state against a slightly yellow tinted background.

Rita Abbinanti: Childhood
A digital illustration of a person with audio editing imagery within their head against an abstract pink background.

YosiYah YisraEL: Music in my mind
Slow 10 MPH under a bridge

Jonathan Pedraza: Pedrazaslow
Blue tones of a bedroom with toys

Miryam Garcia: Untitled
Close-up of a face looking up with DNA double helixes as veins in the eyes

Kostandina Goritsan: Hellenic DNA
Woman laying in a body of water wrapped in vines

Illiana Torres: Bluebellvine
Thick paint of blues and yellows with white clouds

Julia Micorek: Wish I Was There
Forest with fire

Lucia Urbaszewski: Burning Forest
Cabinet with representations of different rooms inside

Macy O’Donnell: Rooms
Tall figure curing with city.

Katie Kaukialo: Solitude Creates Peace of Mind

Matthew Hanson: Night Bus
A make-up look with blue hair resembling supernatural imagery.

Kevannah Berry: Alien superstar
Grey line work with color shapes and figure.

Keagan Ounsombath: Untitled
Dark center figure with white background

Nicole Rouse: Drowning
Eyeball with mushroom, butterfly and mouth piece.

Lyric Roy: Untitled
Girl with a pink dress and lights

Anthony Hernandez: Niece’s Birthday Party
Groups of birds huddled together in a cage, one bird in the center is missing feathers

Molly Fitzgerald: Crowded
Oranges of a portrait with glasses.

Amani Mohammad: Untitled
A golden decorated stage painted with acrylic and gouache.

Apolonia Garcia: Bystanders
Tree with small white figures and rain fall.

Emilia Mleczek: Rainfall
Little girl on a toy on the sidewalk

Jumani Rogers: Jurni’s Journey
A photo of beekeepers working at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Gianna Christensen: Honey, I’m Home
Abstract blue, yellow, and red cubes stacked on one another

Adnan Muminhodzic: Watercolor
An embroidered rose in the blooming stage with a light yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adolescence
Disembodied hands hold up a crinkled paper inside a ring of bright white light.

Alex Land: The Mirrored Map
A gold box holding a clock, framed flower, plate, religious statue, and a bell

Nicki Ta: Goodwill
Skull with an apple peering out from the scalp set on a gradient pink background with a red border

Yrva Desormeaux: The “Perfect” Student
Alter with Virgin Mary and candles.

Marlen Hernandez: Untitled
A black and white photo of a person walking on a street between buildings on a snowy day.

Alyssa Calderon: Snowfall
Person wearing grey hoodie and scoop neck shirt putting their hands through their hair

Tamia Criss: Tay
One side is with horse galloping across a field with dark blue sky and purple clouds. Other half is a drab sky with a helicopter overhead a barren field.

Daniel Barriera: Nature vs. Man-Made
A person looking into a broken mirror

Sam Meece-Potowski: Fractured Portrait
Wooden board with dancer and flowers around her.

Jane Smith: Center Stage Roses
White dog sitting on couch in front of curtain and window

Rosalinda Dejesus: Prince
A drawing of shops on a street, with a person figure lying on the ground with a red circle on their chest.

Janelle Delangel: Back of the Yards
Green figure with pink flowers and vines.

Johanna Guerrero: Untitled
A metal piece that reflects Aztec symbolism and myth, with a red patina.

Melody Dorantes: El Poder del Amor (The Power of Love)

Nicki Ta: Goodwill
Bones represent fossil fuels going through an engine and dripping out at the bottom

John Davila: Extinction Installation Artwork
An embroidered bloomed rose with a yellow background.

Rita Abbinanti: Adulthood
Backpack put into a shopping cart on a field of grass

Seamus Moore: Absurd
A sculpture of a frog resting on a lily-pad, within a lily-pad shaped pond.

Emily Chung: Leafy Harmony
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