Dear Art Collector Greek
- Artist: Guerrilla Girls
- Date: 2007
- Medium: Digital print on paper
- Dimensions: image: 584 x 430 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is *Dear Art Collector Greek*, a 2007 digital print on paper that keeps Guerrilla Girls’ sharp wit on display. The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of women artists who, back in 1985, began plastering Soho streets with statistics that revealed how museums were treating women. They do it in anonymity, wearing gorilla masks and adopting pseudonyms of famous female artists. On this poster the colours are bright pinks and yellows, but underneath the humor lies hard data about how women are underrepresented in private collections. The text asks the obvious questions, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?”—a rhetorical jab that turns the audience’s attention to institutional bias. It’s a direct challenge to the art world, using simple graphics to force you to look and question. It shows that even a single poster can spark debate and demand accountability.
See it in person
Dear Art Collector Greek 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.
