19 Facts About Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls worked closely with artists, encouraging them to speak to those within the community to bridge the gender gap where they perceived it.

The Guerrilla Girls' projects express observations, concerns, and ideals regarding numerous social topics.

The Guerrilla Girls sent this poster to well-known art collectors across the United States, pointing out how few works they owned by women artists.

Guerrilla Girls infiltrated the bathrooms of the newly opened Guggenheim Museum SoHo, placing stickers regarding female inequality on the walls.

In 1998, Guerrilla Girls West protested at the San Jose Museum of Art, over low representation of women artists.

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In 1987, the Guerrilla Girls published thirty posters in a portfolio entitled Guerrilla Girls Talk Back.

Since 2005, the Guerrilla Girls have been invited to produce special projects for international institutions, sometimes for the very institutions, they have criticized.

In 2016, the Guerrilla Girls launched the "President Trump Announces New Commemorative Months" campaign in the form of stickers and posters, which they distributed during the Women's March on Washington in Los Angeles and New York City, as well as the J20 event at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Fire Fink protest at MoMA.

In recognition of their work, the Guerrilla Girls have been invited to give talks at world-renowned museums, including a presentation at the MoMA's 2007 "Feminist Futures" Symposium.

Three Guerrilla Girls appeared on the Stephen Colbert show on January 14,2016.

However, any precise information on the demographics of the Guerrilla Girls is impossible, for they have "staunchly, and problematically, resisted being surveyed as to the makeup of their own membership".

Several Guerrilla Girls who are people of color have faced numerous challenges.

Several Guerrilla Girls felt that their second book, The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, primarily represented the views of "Kahlo" and "Kollwitz".

Since then, this relationship has only intensified, as the Guerrilla Girls presented their exhibitions in museums and even allowed their works to be collected by hegemonic institutions.

Guerrilla Girls' names are pseudonyms generally based on dead female artists.

Guerrilla Girls' "Carriera" is credited with the idea of using pseudonyms as a way to not forget female artists.

One of the first Guerrilla Girls accidentally spelled the group's name at a meeting as "gorilla".

Guerrilla Girls says instead: break the bars of your cages, bite a hole through them, squeeze through an opening.

Guerrilla Girls, who wear the masks of big, hairy, powerful jungle creatures whose beauty is hardly conventional.