With the elections less than a month away, the Guerrilla Girls have officially hopped aboard the Harris-Walz wagon. Today, October 10, the anonymous feminist art activist group released a new election poster encouraging people to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Since they first emerged in 1985 when they began wheat-pasting posters across Lower Manhattan to call out widespread gender inequality in the art world, the Guerrilla Girls have taken on a number of political poster campaigns and projection actions — all while donning their signature gorilla masks — to confront institutional racism, environmental issues, anti-war movements, and conservative politicians including former President George Bush, former Senator Jesse Helms, and former President Donald Trump.
Among their most famous works is “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?”(1989), commissioned by the Public Art Fund in New York as a billboard, which took aim at the underrepresentation of women artists in museum collections.
Their latest work expands upon a 2023 poster, “It’s Not Apple Pie Without Ice Cream! It’s Not Democracy Without Feminism!” by superimposing the words onto a slightly ajar pie box that includes the line, “Feminism = Democracy, Equality & Justice for ALL.”
Below the illustration is an explicit call to action to “VOTE HARRIS WALZ” in order to “restore & defend our freedoms!”
The poster is currently available to download for free on the collective’s website and also on display as a floor-to-ceiling wall banner at poster artist Shepard Fairey’s Los Angeles gallery Subliminal Projects. The designer of the 2008 “Hope” poster depicting former President Barack Obama, Fairey released his own poster of Harris in August. He is also co-chair of Artists for Democracy, a progressive advocacy organization currently leading an art-focused campaign in opposition to Trump.
In response to Hyperallergic’s request for comment, a member of the group simply wrote: “Vote like your freedoms depend on it, because they do!!!”
