Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous female artists—known for wearing gorilla masks—formed in 1985 in New York City. The group’s goal was to use art and performance as a tool to protest sexual and racial inequalities. They were formed as a reaction to MoMA’s 1985 exhibition, “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” featuring 169 artists, only thirteen of which were women. The Guerrilla Girls responded by staging a protest outside the museum. When little attention followed, they produced a poster campaign in SoHo and the East Village.