ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 12, 2026

How to Be a Guerrilla Girl @ THE Getty center, los angeles

Almost twenty years ago the GRI acquired the early archive of our work. It has become the most requested archive in the GRI Collection and is the most complete collection of GG material in the world. GRI curators and researchers have worked for over two years to assemble this exhibition. It’s an exhibition of how (and why) we did what we did.

From the Curators:

How to Be a Guerrilla Girl presents the inner workings of the anonymous feminist art collective alongside a new commission at the Getty Research Institute. Drawing on the Guerrilla Girls’ archive, the exhibition explores the steps the group took to create their eye-catching and humorous public interventions. The exhibition places the Guerrilla Girls’ well-known posters in the broader context of their data research, protest actions, culture jamming, and distribution methods. Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls’ 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in the art world.

“The Guerrilla Girls give us a blueprint for art and activism that is incredibly effective. Our goal is to show visitors the toolkit for artistic activism developed by the Guerrilla Girls,and that it can still be applied today, whatever the issues they care about may be,” says two of the exhibition’s curators Zanna Gilbert and Kristin Juarez.