Guerrilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. The Guerrilla Girls believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. The Guerrilla Girls have done hundreds of unforgettable projects (street posters, banners, actions, books, and videos) all over the world. They also do interventions and exhibitions at art museums, blasting them on their own walls for their bad behavior and discriminatory practices, including a stealth projection on the façade of the Whitney Museum about income inequality and the super rich hijacking art.
Their latest book, Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly collects hundreds of their projects from 1985 to today, and was named one of the best art books of 2020 by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Other exhibitions include the São Paulo Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Military History, Dresden; Art Basel Hong Kong; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Toi o Tāmaki Museum, New Zealand; National Museum of World Writing, Korea; and hundreds more. The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, is preparing an exhibition of their 40-year history for Fall, 2025. Motto: "Do one thing. If it works, do another. If it doesn’t, do another anyway. Keep chipping away!" (2025)
- Publications
- Hot Flashes From The Guerrilla Girls, 4 issues, 1993-1994.
- Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls, New York: HarperCollins, 1995, 95 pp. [1]
- The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, London: Penguin, 1998, 95 pp. [2]
- Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide To Female Stereotypes, New York: Penguin, 2003, 95 pp. [3]
- The Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book, New York: Printed Matter, 2004; new ed., 2012, 24 pp. [4]
- The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured: From Ancient Times Until Now, Paris: Mfc-michèle didier, 2016, [18] pp. [5]
- Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly, San Francisco: Chronicle, 2020, 192 pp. [6]
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