Perhaps the Guerilla Girls’ most famous work, The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist is a poster created 1988 steeped in the irony of being a woman artist in a time where your work is not valued on the basis of your gender. It was not commissioned by anyone, simply originated from the group as…
This 1989 poster is one of the first posters created by the Guerrilla Girls in direct response to one of the most significant events in their career. It was commissioned to be a billboard by the Public Art Fund in New York but was rejected for not being clear enough. The ad ran on New…
The Guerilla Girls are an artist collective aimed at fighting sexism and racism in fine arts. They began their work in 1984 when an exhibition appeared at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 13 women and no people of colour. As other significant art museums had similar norms of overlooking…