Feminist collective of artists founded in New York in 1985 to combat sexism and racism in the art world. They remain anonymous, protecting their identities with gorilla masks and appropriating pseudonyms from well-known women from the past, such as Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz and Gertrude Stein. As they themselves explain: ‘The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.’

The group was formed in response to the International Survey of Painting and Sculpture exhibition held at MoMA, New York, in 1984. Although women artists in the United States had played a prominent role in the pictorial experimentation of the 1970s, of the 169 artists included in the exhibition, less than 10% were women. They started a campaign with posters that held to account museums, galleries, curators, critics and artists in the exclusion of women and black people from the official artistic circuit. They printed cheap posters, flyposting them at night in Manhattan's SoHO. These carried slogans such as the legendary ‘Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?’, with which they protested in front of the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Although theirs is a language of humour and social activism, they incorporate irrefutable statistical data about gender discrimination. Making use of bold colours and an aesthetic that draws on Pop and graphics, the Guerrilla Girl’s output has included easily distributed items such as posters, videos, publications, T-shirts, stickers and letters, in addition to all kinds of communicative actions, such as adding inserts into the publications in the Guggenheim Museum bookstore in New York. They have carried out interventions and exhibitions in schools, museums and organisations around the world. Their most important retrospectives include: Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice, which toured the United States in 2017, and Guerrilla Girls: 1985-2015, which was shown in Madrid and Bilbao in 2015.

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