Sundance Stickers
- Artist: Guerrilla Girls
- Date: 2001
- Medium: 2 digital prints on adhesive paper
- Dimensions: support, each: 279 x 215 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Sundance Stickers” by the Guerrilla Girls, created in 2001. The Guerrilla Girls are a collective of anonymous women artists who first surfaced in 1985 in response to a MoMA exhibition that featured only 13 female artists out of 169. They wear gorilla masks and adopt the names of celebrated dead women to conceal identity while wielding bold text, pop pinks, and yellow backgrounds to expose sexism, racism, and homophobia in the art world. These two digital prints on adhesive paper become mobile billboards: you can stick them on anything, turning everyday surfaces into statements. The stickers ask direct, data‑driven questions—“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”—and rely on wit and sarcasm to make the numbers impossible to ignore. By turning individuals into carriers of their message, the Guerrilla Girls amplify their critique of institutional bias and invite viewers to become part of the conversation. The “Sundance Stickers” exemplify the group’s knack for turning art into a street‑level activism tool.
See it in person
Sundance Stickers 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.
