The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. Over 55 people have been members over the years, some for weeks, some for decades. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who we might be. 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. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. We believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders. We have done over 100 street projects, posters and stickers all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Mexico City, Istanbul, London, Bilbao, Rotterdam, and Shanghai, to name just a few. We also do projects and exhibitions at museums, attacking them for their bad behavior and discriminatory practices right on their own walls, including our 2015 stealth projection about income inequality and the super rich hijacking art on the façade of the Whitney Museum in New York. Our retrospectives in Bilbao and Madrid, Guerrilla Girls 1985-2015, and our US traveling exhibition, Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice, have attracted thousands. We could be anyone. We are everywhere. What’s next? More creative complaining!! New projects in London, Paris, Cologne, and more!
Chuck Close, an artist known for his photorealist portraits, has recently found himself at the centre of sexual misconduct and harassment allegations. Since December, several women have come forward with misconduct allegations, and as a result, his artwork was removed from a university library while a national museum has indefinitely postponed his forthcoming exhibition. Other places, like the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is leaving up its exhibition Chuck Close Photographs.
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DO WOMEN HAVE TO BE NAKED TO GET INTO MUSIC VIDEOS?
In 2014 Pharrell invited us to be in his exhibition “G I R L” at Galerie Perrotin Paris. We said ok, but ONLY if we could show two new posters: one about women in music and another about women artists at Perrotin.
After watching lots of videos we had a question for Pharrell: why DO WOMEN HAVE TO BE NAKED TO GET INTO MUSIC VIDEOS WHILE 99% OF THE GUYS ARE DRESSED? We did a remix one of our classic posters with a still from Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines
SORRY SWEETIE. WAY TO GO, DUDE!
At the 1994 conference of the College Art Association, where would-be art professors interview for jobs, we had Gorillas passing out these fliers. For at least fifteen years, the majority of art students in the U.S. have been female, while full-time faculty has remained overwhelmingly male. One of the schools listed is a virtual harem, with 90 percent women students and an all-male faculty.
LET'S TOAST IRISH ART, LADS!
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DEAREST ART COLLECTOR
Boys will buy boys...
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