Collection of 28 Guerrilla Girls Posters

The Guerrilla Girls is a feminist activist collective composed of female artists that formed in New York in 1985. The group is prolific in producing posters that call attention to gender and racial inequities in the art world and society writ large, taking aim at institutions ranging from art museums and commercial galleries to political parties. The largely text-based posters, which first appeared on building facades, in city buses, and in other public spaces around New York, are witty, pithy, and scathing in their messaging. To protect their anonymity, the group’s members assume pseudonyms based on the names of deceased female artists and wear gorilla masks during public appearances.


This group of posters dates from 1985 to 1994, the first decade following the group’s founding. They were in the personal collection of artist and founding member Emma Amos until her death in 2020. Because they were never pasted onto surfaces around the city as was intended, they are in unusually pristine condition, save for pinholes in the corners of a handful of works, suggesting that Amos hung them in her studio or home.