Why do people have trouble naming more than one or two women artists? Against all odds, women have always been artists, many with productive and successful careers. Historians dismissed, ignored or forgot them in a relentless drive to define the Western canon through the work of white male “geniuses.” We decided to tell the story of women artists who should never be forgotten. 

“A leveling indictment of bigotry in the art world, the work of the Guerrilla Girls elevates cage-bar rattling to a fine art.” —Mark Dery, The New York Times Book Review

Take a romp through the last two thousand years of Western Art with the Guerrilla Girls as your guides. Find answers to questions like these: Who put all those naked men in the classical sections of museums? Why did nuns have more fun in medieval times? Did a girl have to cross dress for success in the 19th century? How far does a female have to go from her home to become an artist? Why were the modern Masters more interested in painting prostitutes than Suffragettes? Read about the fascinating lives of the women artists who were able to make it, despite incredible social obstacles and sexist art historians. Art history classes around the world are using it as a textbook. Make your professor use it, too!

The Guerrilla Girls define themselves as a feminist activist group “using facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.” The group of anonymous activists well known for wearing a gorilla mask in public appearances was formed in 1985 in the aftermath of protests in response to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1984. Titled “An International Survey of Recent Paintings and Sculpture,” curated by Kynaston McShine, it included 165 artists, only 13 of them women.

 Learn more about The Guerrilla Girls here (link)