Student Exhibition - Portrait Mode: Self-Reflections from Past, Present, and Future
"View of Caracas" by Alejandro Cohen
Chris and Bernard Marden Community Gallery
Student Exhibition 2025–2026
Presented by the Norton Museum of Art in partnership with Palm Beach County schools, the 2025–2026 Student Art Exhibition is on view in the Chris and Bernard Marden Community Gallery. This annual exhibition features original works by middle and high school students inspired by portraits from the special exhibition Art and Life in Rembrandt’s Time: Masterpieces from The Leiden Collection.
Students were invited to create artworks that explore identity through portraiture, reflecting who they are today, who they may have been in another time, or who they hope to become. The exhibition includes both traditional self-portraits and object-portraits, using personal symbols to convey individual interests, experiences, and aspirations.
Art teachers from public, private, charter, parochial, and home schools across Palm Beach County submitted up to five student works each. Museum staff selected the artworks on view from approximately 250 submissions. The Norton extends its gratitude to all participating students and educators, and congratulates the artists whose work is featured in the exhibition.
The Norton Museum of Art thanks the school administrators, teachers, and families who support arts education, as well as the students who engaged thoughtfully with the theme of portraiture.