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.

A photo of granola and a jar of food.

Anonymous: Souvenirs

Anonymous: Sunny Octopus

Amna Trebovic: On and Off the Court
Drawing of a character.

Giselle Raigosa: Not Your Genius, Not Your Prodigy
Clay sculpture of a squirrel.

Patrick O’Connor: Untitled
A man in profile with a long tongue.

Anonymous: Venom

Anonymous: Melodic Reflections
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 2

Kathryn Warren: Anxiety

Trissa Tsang: In the clouds

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

Jesus Chavarria: Rusty Bloom
painting of a blue teapot

Jaclyn Manning: Teapot Blues

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

Saskya Lema Lema: Ofrenda
Fabric textile resembling a sunset.

Mia Schlessinger: Untitled

Amani Mohammad: A Simple Reflection
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
The faces of two children are covered by thread.

Jennifer Aguilera-Martinez: Recuerdos
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: Free from Rejection of Belief
A rounded oval clay piece with a white angel.

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
A bowl of pozole with an avocado and coca cola.

Alondra Castillo: Pozole de mi Abuela
A three dimensional piece of a bust with plants around it.

Anonymous: The Beauty of Femininity

Margareth Cervantes: A Slice of Summer

Anonymous: Multicolor Bucket

Anonymous: Return
Photo of a boy.

Nora Campos: Day to Day

Elizabeth Belmont: Untitled I

Sofia Aguilar – 100 Lost Souls

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: Buena Suerte Hija

Isabella Flores: Untitled

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

Anonymous: Discovery

Anonymous: Antique Ambiance
Monster and a german shepard.

Chloe Mitchell: Monsters in our World

Anonymous: Summer at the Weltons
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
A mixed media portrait of Harriet Tubman. Behind her is a geometric pattern.

Anonymous: Harriet Tubman
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
Photo of a boy.

Stephanie Manzo: Eddie
Collage of a cherry tree and a garden with a butterfly.

Anonymous: Sunny Day

Yareli Vaquera : Ayuda

Anonymous: Untitled

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

Maite Armijos: Untitled

Anonymous: Raccotter
Abstract painting

Margot Lavie: Untitled

Anonymous: Flowers of Amber
Orange and blue abstract painting.

Daja Jackson: Ocean Vs Fire

Emily Moron – Devoted

Anonymous: Double Portrait
A woman holds her face in her hands.

Maria Brito: Entrendre

Salome Camelo Bocanegra: Portrait of the Weekend
Drawing of a person with a flower head.

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

Anonymous: Untitled 1

Anonymous: 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
Hand in a ring light.

Alex Chitnis: The World is in Your Palms

Anonymous: Chili snake

Anonymous: Growth of Hope
Colorful paper mache sculpture.

Emeline Ramirez: Guía

Nicholaus Asiyanbi: Degenerate’s Paradise

Clarence De Guzman: Cloudy Morning
A painting of a sunset along the beach.

Anonymous: Beachside Sunset
Painting made up of lines.

Shamya Butler: Untitled

Anonymous: Altered by the Past

Anonymous: Two Gauntlets, One Goal
A white crewneck with a tan floral patterned sleeve.

Anonymous: Floral Crew Neck
Collage with anatomy and book scraps.

Anahi Alcala: Physically Unharmed
Colorful abstract photography.

Alex Chitnis: Rainbow Breeze

Anonymous: Van Gogh’s Ear

Anonymous: Crying
Boulders overlooking a lake and pine needle branches.

Gloria Chavarin: Watercolor Landscape
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: Contamination
A bull charges an alligator.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Kandi

Margareth Cervantes: Last Birthday
A digital piece of a woman standing in water with her eyes closed and hair flowing upwards.

Anonymous: Lifted

Anonymous: Untitled

Sofia Aguilar – Maneater
A girl floats in a bathtub. She is surrounded by flowers.

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

Anonymous: Desert Flower

Dianna Miguel: KAMI!
Painting of a beach.

Paige Meegan: Daytona Beach
Sculpture of an opossum character.

Christian Harper: Lazarus
Painting of a dog.

Paige Meegan: Daisy

Anonymous: Rooms
A person playing a bagpipe.

Eoin McNamara: The Uilleann Piper
Abstract blue line painting.

Cesar Nunez: Rain
A ceramic mug with a face like a cat.

Anonymous: Self-Portrait Mug

Kashmala Khalid: Kite Flying

Amy Najera: Portrait of Frida Kahlo

Anonymous: 정

Anonymous: Seeing Blossoms
Drawing of someone cutting food.

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

Anonymous: Omen

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Gods Painting of the Sky

Enesa Grebovic: Old Bridge

Anonymous: Why’d the octopus cross the river?
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

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of a money and two male subjects.

Agata Siwinska: Fear Ink
Collage of ship at sea and rubber ducks.

Carolina Loja: Not all troubles are tragic
A blue woven piece with green leaves woven into the fiber. There is a red rectangle on the upper left corner.

Anonymous: Outwards

Anonymous: Eagle Bodybuilder

Bailey Taylor: Infected

Alek Klee : All for one and one for all
Cartoon whale underwater.

Nikki Pham: Deep Sea Whale

Anonymous: Untitled 3
Ceramic Thank you plastic bag.

Alina Calatayud: Thank You

Anonymous: Graceful Arcs
Pop art portrait of an older woman.

Jocelyn Ibarra: Grandmother
A charcoal on paper drawing of a folded up paper boat. The boat is designed with drawn creatures.

Anonymous: Paper Boat

Anonymous: Untitled Self Portrait

Anonymous: Myself
Black and white photo of a lighthouse.

Jake Pridgen: From one end of the pier

Camille Daley: Better Together
Drawing of someone waiting for train.

Anonymous: Crash

Kijah Woods: Untitled
Strips of painted paper that alternate between two images of a woman.

Mayra Jimenez: What Makes You Stay Awake? Stress.

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

Anonymous: Floral Blanket Pants

Zoe Crooks: Colors of the night
Mask with splatter paint.

Jaylen Wells: Messy Truth

Katherine Valerio: Portrait of Kehinde Wiley
Abstract drawing.

Valeria Miranda: Untitled

Anahi Alcala: Wake Up

Alondra Torres: Cristalo
3d book art.

Adelina Brown: The So Long Saloon

Jessica Salinas Rodriguez: The Fields

Bianca Burnett: Untitled

Sofia Comas: Accretion

Eloise Park: Crossata

Anonymous: Bowie
Picture of steam engine train.

Jennifer Carlson: Head in the Clouds

Anonymous: Snake

Lisa Patel: Shadows Behind The Ligh

Josephine Martorana: Hurt
A three legged bowl with a shallow lip.

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

Anonymous: Eye Watcher

Anonymous: Route 666

Anonymous: Shells of the Self

Camille Daley: Ghosting
Portrait drawing of an older man.

Una Reyes: Una Luz Reyes rendition of St

Sainabu Akinlolu: Endless Fall

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

Anonymous: Untitled
painting of a diner

Jaclyn Manning: “A Lick of Childhood.”

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

Anonymous: Untitled

Grace Devathala: Jeremiah

Anonymous: Church
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
Black and white drawing of leaves.

LaJuan Williams: Evolution of Nature
Painting of underwater plants.

Jae Nguyen: Lily Pads

Joseph Morco: My Exploration
A painting of a beach

Sarahi Paz: Guatemala Beach

Anonymous: Present-day flowers
Drawing of a geometric character with sharp teeth. The character has blue and purple.

Anonymous: Color Shape
Collage work of a abstract snake.

Evelina Poole: Frozen by Fear

Zoe Crooks: Torn Away and Stuck Together
A collage of a house in front of mountains.

Jazleen Esquivel: Home

Maria Guayara: Is it you or him in the mirror?

Madeline Yundt: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled

Sonia Urbina: Stolen Innocence
An Andy Warhol inspired oil pastel drawing. 4 repeated cupcakes with different vibrant colors.

Anonymous: Untitled

Anonymous: Untitled
Red flowers and two kittens.

Auren Boynton: Under Red Peonies
A picture of a diner on a street.

Esmeralda Hernandez-Galan: Don’s Grill
A round metal with mountains, trees and a bear.

Niamh Hughes: Chasing the Peaks

Anonymous: Untitled
Drawing of sunflowers in vase.

Zaida Soumanou: Untitled

Caius Boynton: Mina and the Mouse
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

Itzel Merlos: Untitled

Kijah Woods: Untitled
Drawing of a fly trap.

Victoria Bobadilla: Fly Trap
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

Anonymous: Deflated Cube Vase
Abstract sculpture of a gray monster.

Emily Lach: Pinch Pot Monster

Anonymous: Difference

Yumeri Garcia: “Nuestro America, Our Life”

Anonymous: Archeology, 3500 A.C.
Abstract splatter portrait art.

Julieana Cosajay: Narcissist

Anonymous: Destruction (The Cycle)

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

Yrva Desormeaux: The Girl In Flowers

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

Daniella Xu: Dusk
Painting of a skull.

Anonymous: Untitled
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