Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls

▪ American art activists
      American group of art activists, founded in 1985 with the twofold mission of bringing attention to women artists and artists of colour and exposing the domination of white males in the art establishment.

      In 1985 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City mounted a large exhibit entitled “An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture,” in which only 13 women out of a total of 169 artists were included. This disparity became the impetus for the formation of an influential and energetic activist group to combat sexism and racism in the art world.

      The group's members, women artists and art professionals, remained anonymous and assumed pseudonyms of famous women artists of the past. They researched statistics on discrimination and made their findings public via posters that were strongly worded but displayed an ironic sense of humour. The posters carried the legend “A public service message from the Guerrilla Girls, conscience of the art world.” Some of the issues that they addressed include the portrayal of female nudity, unequal pay, lack of shows, lack of representation in art history, and issues of career and family.

      The members regularly donned gorilla masks to mount their posters in public spaces and to stage demonstrations at art openings. Their direct-action methods were intended to provoke a response that would lead to discussion and effect change. In addition to displaying and selling posters, they lectured widely and published books such as Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls (1995), a history of the movement, and A Guerrilla Girl's Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art (1998). By the mid-1990s the group's activism began to expand beyond the art world to address other issues such as affirmative action, environmentalism, and abortion.

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