History Timeline

TWO x TWO chair:
Salle Stemmons

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art makes its debut.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Angela and Bill Barrett

Honored artist:
Robert Rauschenberg

Dr. Mathilde Krim is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her leadership in the fight against AIDS.

Honorary Chair Sharon Stone presents Robert Rauschenberg with the first amfAR Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Marguerite and Robert Hoffman &
Cindy and Howard Rachofsky

Honored artist: Julian Schnabel

amfAR creates TREAT Asia, a network of clinics, hospitals, and research institutions working with civil society to ensure the safe and effective delivery of HIV/AIDS treatments throughout Asia and the Pacific.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Mary Noël Lamont and Sharon Young

Honored artist: Ed Ruscha

Using TWO x TWO funds, the DMA acquires Robert Rauschenberg’s Rauschenberg: XXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno, 1964.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Brooke Aldridge, Rex Cumming
and Sharon Young

Honored artist: April Gornik

T-20, or Fuzeon, a new anti-HIV drug first tested by amfAR-funded researcher Dr. Carl Wild, is approved by the FDA.

The Dallas Museum of Art marks its 100th birthday on January 19th.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Naomi Aberly and Brian Bolke

Honored artist: Joel Shapiro

The Dallas Museum of Art organizes Ellsworth Kelly in Dallas with the support of funding from TWO x TWO.

Tom Friedman’s Untitled (big/small figure) (2002) is acquired by the DMA with proceeds from TWO x TWO.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Deedie Rose and Emily Summers

Honored artist: Cecily Brown

With the assistance of TWO x TWO funds, the DMA acquires Laura Owens’ Untitled (2004).

TWO x TWO chairs:
Lizzie Routman and Susan Kaminski

Honored artist: Tom Friedman

amfAR’s TREAT Asia program launches a pediatric network to help improve treatment and care for children living with HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Jennifer Eagle and Catherine Rose

Honored artist: Elizabeth Peyton

The FDA approves the anti-HIV drug maraviroc, the first in a class of drugs called CCR5 antagonists. Development of the drug was made possible by amfAR grantee Dr. Nathaniel Landau’s 1996 discovery that HIV typically requires the protein CCR5 to enter cells.

TWO x TWO funds helps to support the major acquisition of five paintings from On Kawara’s “Today” series; one from each decade that the artist worked on the series.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Naomi Aberly, Angie Barrett, Brian Bolke, Rex Cumming, Jennifer Eagle, Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Susan Kaminski, Mary Noël Lamont, Cindy Rachofsky, Catherine Rose, Deedie Rose, Lizzie Routman, Salle Stemmons, Emily Summers, and Sharon Young

Honored artist: Jim Hodges 

The case of “the Berlin patient,” the first person to be cured of HIV, is reported.

In celebration of the tenth annual TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, the DMA presents TWO x TWO x TEN, an exhibition featuring a selection of the 60 works
acquired with TWO x TWO funds, including the major acquisition of Jim Hodges’ and still this (2005–2008).

TWO x TWO chairs:
Jan Showers and Elizabeth Showers

Honored artist: Peter Doig

The Museum reaches a historic high in attendance, welcoming for the first time more than one million visitors to date in the 2009 fiscal year.

The DMA acquires Luc Tuymans’ The Man from Wiels II (2008) with the help of TWO x TWO proceeds.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Suzanne Droese and Lucilo Peña

Honored artist: Christopher Wool

amfAR launches a research consortiumon HIV eradication—ARCHE—with the aim of accelerating the search for a cure.

The Dallas Museum of Art presents Luc Tuymans with the support of funding from TWO x TWO.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Joyce Goss, John Benjamin Hickey,
and Gary Tigges

Honored artist: Mark Grotjahn

Honored artist Mark Grotjahn’s featured work, Untitled (In and Out of the Darkness Face 43.01) (2001), becomes the first TWO x TWO donation to sell for $1 million.

TWO x TWO chair:
Amy Phelan

Honored artist: Richard Phillips

TWO x TWO funds are used to acquire 14 works relating to the Gutai and Mono-ha artistic movements, making the DMA one of the most preeminent institutions for postwar Japanese art.

TWO x TWO chair:
Christen Wilson

Honored artist: Luc Tuymans

The Museum returns to free general admission on January 21st.

The DMA organizes Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take with the support of TWO x TWO funding.

TWO x TWO chairs:
Lisa and John Runyon

Honored artist: Wade Guyton

amfAR launches the Countdown to a Cure for AIDS, a $100 million research initiative aimed at developing the scientific basis of a cure by the end of 2020.

Honored artist Wade Guyton’s featured work, Untitled (2008), becomes the first TWO x TWO donation to sell for over $2 million.

TWO x TWO chair:
Nancy C. Rogers

Honored artist: Ellsworth Kelly

Melvin Edwards’ Machete for Gregory (1974) is acquired by the DMA with proceeds from TWO x TWO.

TWO x TWO chair:
Nancy C. Rogers

Honored artist: Laura Owens

As the cornerstone of the Countdown to a Cure, amfAR establishes the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research with a five-year $20 million grant to the University of California, San Francisco.

TWO x TWO funds are used to support the DMA-commissioned sculpture Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) 2016 (2016) by British artist Rebecca Warren. This site-specific work serves as the first in a series of rotating works by various artists highlighted in the new Eagle Family Plaza. 

TWO x TWO chairs:
Nasiba and Thomas Hartland-Mackie

Honored artist: Jonas Wood

Using TWO x TWO funds, the DMA acquires Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artist’s signature Infinity Mirror Rooms. The installation is the only Infinity Mirror Room of its kind in a North American collection.

In a novel approach to conquering HIV, amfAR awards six grants that pair HIV researchers with bioengineers to tackle the persistent reservoirs of virus not cleared by antiretroviral therapy. The grantees will use highly advanced technologies originally developed in other research fields to clear HIV reservoirs.

TWO x TWO chairman:
Tim Headington

TWO x TWO art chairman:
John Runyon

Honored artist: Dana Schutz

The Dallas Museum of Art presents Laura Owens with the support of TWO x TWO funds.

amfAR’s cumulative investments in HIV research and advocacy surpass $500 million.

TWO x TWO has raised over $84 million in its 20-year history and the DMA has added over 275 works of contemporary art to its permanent collection with TWO x TWO funds.

Lisa and John Runyon join Cindy and Howard Rachofsky as hosts of TWO x TWO.

Honored artist: Alex Katz

With the support of TWO x TWO funds, the Dallas Museum of Art presents the first major solo museum exhibition by American painter Jonas Wood.

Alex Katz’s Crosslight (2019) is acquired by the DMA with proceeds from TWO x TWO.

In April 2020, amfAR temporarily expanded its efforts to include research on the coronavirus, establishing the amfAR Fund to Fight COVID-19. amfAR was also among the first to publish studies, widely reported in the media, showing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among minority communities.

TWO x TWO raises a record-breaking $11 million in support of the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.

Honored artist: Yoshitomo Nara

Honored artist: Rashid Johnson

With the support of TWO x TWO funds, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Focus On: Rashid Johnson, an installation showcasing Johnson’s multimedia work The New Black Yoga Installation, which was gifted to the DMA by the artist.

TWO x TWO 2023 Honors artist María Berrío. Gala includes performance by Jason Derulo.

TWO x TWO  for AIDS and Art celebrates its 25th anniversary and the final event of this historic fundraiser for amfAR and the DMA.

2024 Honored Artist Nicolas Party