This thesis aimed to observe and analyze the contemporary art field in Guayaquil, Ecuador, through a gender and a feminist perspective. What were observed were seven exhibitions held during November to December 2016, together with seven additional texts, at three government owned museums in the city. The research included both quantitative methodology through a counting of represented women artists at the visited exhibitions and a number of critical discourse analyses of the additional text documents.

The result showed that women artists were represented in the museums, but that they were not there on the same terms and conditions as their male colleagues the man was the norm giving gender. The institutional writing about women was non-existing, the institutions made them invisible through their reproduction of traditional and prevailing discourses.