Battle of the Sexes
- Artist: Guerrilla Girls
- Date: 1996
- Medium: Digital print on paper
- Dimensions: image: 279 x 381 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Battle of the Sexes” by the Guerrilla Girls, a 1996 digital print that packs a punch in just 279 × 381 mm. The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of anonymous female artists who use gorilla masks to keep their identities hidden while blasting institutional sexism and racism with pop‑bright graphics and brutal statistics. In this poster they point out the stark gender gap in museums—only 13 women represented out of 169 artists in a 1985 MoMA survey—using sharp wit and rhetorical questions. The bold yellow and pink background gives it a playful look, but the data underneath forces viewers to confront the inequality head‑on. Their humor is a weapon: a dry, almost sarcastic tone that disarms and demands accountability from Euro‑American art institutions. The work is currently on display in the Media Networks room at Tate Modern.
See it in person
Battle of the Sexes is in the collection of Tate Modern on Bankside, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
