The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist (1988) is demonstrative of how The Guerrilla Girls use wit and humour to draw awareness to gender-based discrimination in the art world. Points such as ‘Working without the pressure of success’ suggest a climate of hopelessness for women artists, while ‘Having an escape from the art world in your 4 free-lance jobs’ and ‘Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position’ speak to the precarious job market for women working in the industry.
This is one of three artworks by the Guerrilla Girls in The Women's Art Collection that forms part of a thirty-piece portfolio of posters entitled Guerrilla Girls Talk Back. Dubbing themselves the ‘conscience of the art world’, these posters appropriate the visual language of advertising in order to highlight inequalities within the art market and public collections.
