Guerilla Girls
Claire Haggarty

The Geurilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists who wear gorilla masks in public due to their “Geurilla” activist tactics. They began in 1985 by hanging posters voicing their grievances about women in the art world in secret and escalated after every day women started contacting them about how their work not only related to artists, but to all kinds of women.  These women bring to light the discrimination of women in gender roles, pop culture and other art.  Their most well-known poster (shown below) shows a woman in a state of undress with their well known gorilla mask on, begging the question “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”. 

The Geurilla Girls have now done hundreds of projects aside from these posters including books, exhibitions at museums, videos and stickers.  These women continue to bring to light the inequality and discriminatory practices against women and other discriminated groups of the art world as well as the world in general.