The Guerrilla Girls
Anonymous collective
Began 1985, New York
Selected museum exhibitions: Museu de Arte São Paulo (2017); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016); Abrons Art Center, New York (2015); Alhondiga, Bilbao, Spain, 2013; Columbia College, Chicago (2012); Tate Modern, London (2004-present); Printed Matter, New York (1995); The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (1987); The Palladium Dance Club, New York (1985)
Selected honors: Skowhegan Award (2013); Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2010); Distinguished Feminist Art Award, College Art Association (2009); Brooklyn Museum (2007); Center for Policy Studies, London (1993); Susan B. Anthony Award, New York State Chapter of the National Organization for Women (1987)
Selected public collections: Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge; Museo de Arte de São Paulo; Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Tate Modern, London
The following statement is from www.guerrillagirls.com:
GUERRILLA GIRLS REINVENTING THE 'F' WORD: FEMINISM
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!