Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Guerrilla Girl Body Count: 2018 Summary

For over six months, I've tracked the metrics on as many juried shows as my feeds expose me to. The data is limited. I don't know how many total men and women submit work . Its important because, artists of both genders *pay* to submit work in the good faith that it will be judged on its artistic merit and nothing else.
I did the arithmetic on 9 juried shows - all that Provide sufficient data - no cherry picking.
In those 9 shows, 69% of the accepted work was by women artists representing 68% of the pieces shown.
432 women
198 men
Six curated shows had similar results. Forty-one women and eighteen men were represented. That is 69% of artists represented were women.
Throughout the year numerous women-only shows were exhibited [presumably because of their under-representation in galleries and museums].
Men had no such shows.

Juried shows included here were exhibited at Guilford; Clinton; Lyme; Stamford Art Assn; Mystic; West Hartford Art League; Bowery Gallery, NYC;  and the New Britain Museum of American Art.