Guerrilla Girls’ Pop Quiz
- Artist: Guerrilla Girls
- Date: 1990
- Medium: Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions: image: 430 x 560 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the "Guerrilla Girls’ Pop Quiz" by the Guerrilla Girls. A screenprint on paper from 1990, it comes from the “Guerrilla Girls Talk Back” portfolio. The poster bursts with pop pinks and yellows, a bright palette that frames the stark facts it delivers. Under the eye‑catching design is a series of statistics and rhetorical questions that expose the gender‑based discrimination still present in museums, galleries and universities. The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of women artists who wear gorilla masks and adopt the names of deceased female icons. They formed in 1985 after a MoMA exhibition that showcased only 13 women out of 169 artists. Their activism relies on wit, irony and direct data to hold institutions accountable. In “Pop Quiz” they call out tokenism—claiming that African American and women artists are only shown in February and March—as another form of exclusion. The print reminds us that art can be a powerful platform for social critique.
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Guerrilla Girls’ Pop Quiz 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.
