Guerrilla Girls - Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum? - Offset lithograph on paper - 1989 - 28×71 cm
Original 1989 printing, directly sourced from the Guerrilla Girls' archive
Guerrilla Girls
Founded in New York, USA, 1985
Based in New York, USA
The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous feminist art collective founded in 1985, dedicated to exposing gender and racial inequalities within the art world and broader society. Wearing gorilla masks and adopting the names of historical women artists, they use provocative imagery, humor, and statistical research to challenge institutional discrimination and the underrepresentation of women and artists of color. Their practice spans posters, public interventions, performances, publications, and installations, transforming visual communication and political activism into a distinctive artistic language. Through iconic works such as Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum? (1989), the collective has questioned the power structures of museums, galleries, and cultural institutions. Their work has become a landmark of feminist conceptual art, combining activism and artistic practice to challenge established narratives of art history.