Guerrilla Girls
11 rooms in Media Networks
This display shows the work of the anonymous feminist collective who use daring text and phrases to expose injustice in the art world and beyond
The Guerrilla Girls are an activist group made up of women artists and art professionals. They formed in 1985, in response to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York which featured only 13 women out of 169 artists. Under the cover of darkness, they fly-posted SoHo street corners, declaring statistics that exposed the gender-based discrimination in museums and art galleries. They hide their identities behind gorilla masks and have adopted pseudonyms of celebrated dead women artists and writers such as Kathë Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo and Gertrude Stein.
Today, the group continue to reveal the racism, sexism and homophobia prevalent in art and society. They are most well-known for text-based posters that drip with wit and sarcasm, holding Euro American institutions accountable for their actions. This dry sense of humour on backgrounds of pop pinks and yellows contrasts with the harrowing story of inequality being told. By using straightforward data and rhetorical questions, the facts speak for themselves.
The art in this room shows the different ways in which Guerrilla Girls play and provoke the museum industry. As well as fly posters, the group have produced stickers, comics and even children’s activity books as part of their agenda to be the ‘conscience of the art world’.
Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Girls Guide To Behaving Badly 2016
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, ¿Por Qué las Guerrilla Girls Echan Pestes Contra el Arte , el Cine, la Política y la Cultura Pop? 2013
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, Free the Women Artists of Europe 2013
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into Music Videos? 2014
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, Dear Art Collector Billionaire 2015
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, How Many Women Had Solo Shows At NYC Museums? Recount 2015
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, The Guerrilla Girls Asked 383 European Museums About Diversity 2016
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, Anatomically Correct Oscar Update 2016
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, History of Wealth and Power 2016
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, Trump Announces New Commemorative Months 2016
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, Missing in Action 1991
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, What I Want for Mother’s Day 1991
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Republicans Do Believe in a Woman’s Right to Control her own Body 1992
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, How Long Did It Take to Loot South Central L.A.? 1992
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Natural Law 1992
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Battle of the Sexes 1996
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Birth of Feminism Movie Poster 2001
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, The Future for Turkish Women Artists 2006
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Dear Art Collector Greek 2007
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met. Museum? Update 2012
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist 1988
The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of activist artists who highlight sexism and racism in the art world. They formed in 1985 in New York City, USA. Shortly after, their posters appeared overnight in the streets of the New York art district of SoHo. The group’s targets included artists, gallery owners, and museums. Over the years their focus has widened to include other areas of inequality. The Guerrilla Girls wear gorilla masks in public and use pseudonyms. They continue to expose discrimination and to produce new provocative posters. Their work now includes books, videos and workshops in schools, colleges and art institutions.
Gallery label, August 2021
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Guerrilla Girls, Dearest Art Collector 1986
This is one of thirty posters published in a portfolio entitled Guerrilla Girls Talk Back by the group of anonymous American female artists who call themselves the Guerrilla Girls. Tate’s copy is number twelve in the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Women In America Earn Only 2/3 Of What Men Do 1985
Formed in 1985, the Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous activist group who highlight discrimination in the art world. Their targets include museums, dealers, curators and art critics. They fly-posted their first posters overnight in the fashionable New York art district of SoHo, and have also displayed their work as advertisements on city buses. Over the years their attacks on sexism have widened to other areas of social, racial and gender-based inequality. The Guerrilla Girls wear gorilla masks for public appearances and use the names of famous deceased artists and writers as pseudonyms.
Gallery label, February 2016
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Guerrilla Girls, Dear Art Collector Chinese 2007
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Distributing the Peace 2009
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, Guerrilla Girls Review The Whitney 1987
The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of activist artists who highlight sexism and racism in the art world. They formed in 1985 in New York City, USA. Shortly after, their posters appeared overnight in the streets of the New York art district of SoHo. The group’s targets included artists, gallery owners, and museums. Over the years their focus has widened to include other areas of inequality. The Guerrilla Girls wear gorilla masks in public and use pseudonyms. They continue to expose discrimination and to produce new provocative posters. Their work now includes books, videos and workshops in schools, colleges and art institutions.
Gallery label, August 2021
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Guerrilla Girls, Pop Quiz Update 2016
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Upgrade 2012–2016 is a portfolio of twenty-seven works produced by an anonymous collective of American female artists between 2012 and 2016. Published as an open edition, it contains twenty-one poster projects of varying dimensions – twenty colour digital prints on paper and one black and white inkjet print on paper – alongside seven sheets of stickers and four videos documenting public performances by the Guerilla Girls at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. The portfolio also includes two books published in 2016, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured and Is It Even Worse in Europe: Whitechapel Survey.
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Guerrilla Girls, What’s the Difference between a POW and a Homeless Person? 1991
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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artworks in Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls, Top Ten Signs That You’re an Art World Token 1995
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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Guerrilla Girls, As Good As It Gets? 1998
Guerrilla Girls Portfolio Compleat Update 1991–2012 is a portfolio of works produced between 1991 and 2012 by the anonymous collective of American female artists known as the Guerilla Girls. It contains fifty-four poster projects of variable dimensions – twenty-six black and white offset lithographs on paper and twenty-eight colour digital prints on paper – alongside a printed plastic bag, three sheets of stickers and two issues of the newsletter Hot Flashes from 1994 (vol.1, nos.2 and 3, and vol.1, no.4). The portfolio also includes three books produced between 1998 and 2012 – The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, Bitches Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls’ Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes and The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book – as well as their most recent text, The Hysterical Herstory of Hysteria and How It Was Cured, in digital form on compact disc in advance of publication. Two of the black and white prints are accompanied by postcards addressed to Thomas Krens and Margit Rowell – former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and chief curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York respectively – that the public were encouraged to fill in and post as a sign of support for the Guerrilla Girls project. This version of the portfolio has been uniquely compiled for Tate to complement its existing holdings (Guerrilla Girls Talk Back [Tate P78788–P78817], a portfolio of thirty posters produced between 1985 and 1990), and each work is an artists’ proof aside from the edition of fifty.
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