Guerrilla Girls Review The Whitney
- Artist: Guerrilla Girls
- Date: 1987
- Medium: Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions: image: 560 x 432 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Guerrilla Girls Review The Whitney” by Guerrilla Girls. A 560 × 432 mm screenprint on paper from 1987, it was created as part of their “Guerrilla Girls Talk Back” series, the twelfth of fifty prints. The piece was issued for the 1987 Whitney Biennial and confronts the museum’s gender bias. The bold, pop‑pink and yellow background houses stark statistics and rhetorical questions that expose how few women were represented in the exhibition. The Guerrilla Girls—an anonymous collective of women artists who wear gorilla masks and adopt pseudonyms of famous female figures—use wit and irony to hold institutions accountable. Their flyers, posters, and stickers were once fly‑posted on SoHo streets, and this print was distributed to highlight sexism in the art world. It’s a sharp reminder that art can be both a statement and a tool for social change, blending eye‑catching design with hard‑hitting data.
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Guerrilla Girls Review The Whitney 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.
