Expanding the Study of Performance in Women Artists' Archives

This project expands the historiography of feminist performance art by identifying gaps in the Getty Research Institute’s collection and recentering the work of understudied women artists in the field of performance. Drawing on materials from outside the US as well as performance traditions of African American, Asian American, and Latina artists, the project examines the relationship between feminist performance art and its archives as well as the degree to which feminist ideas have been adopted, adapted, or rejected in different contexts.

Exhibition
How to Be a Guerrilla Girl
On view at the Getty Center from November 18, 2025 through April 12, 2026.

Oral History Project
Guerrilla Girls
Magali Lara
Mónica Mayer

Visiting Project Researchers
Catherine Quan Damman
Judith Delfiner
Faye Raquel Gleisser
Guerrilla Girls "Frida Kahlo" and "Käthe Kollwitz"
Tara Aisha Willis

Current Team
Thisbe Gensler
Zanna Gilbert
Alex Jones
Kristin Juarez
Ashley McNelis
Glenn Phillips
Daniela Ruano Orantes
Megan Sallabedra

Past Team Members
Storm Bookhard
Mya Chau
Jessi DiTillio
Luana Fortes
Simone Fujita
Beatriz Garcia-Diaz
Samantha Gregg
Anne Rana