The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Ballroom Marfa

Location
Marfa, TX
Grant Cycle
Spring 2021
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
https://www.ballroommarfa.org/ ↗
Installation view of a large round steel sculpture in the center of the room with blue and white abstract paintings on the wall.
Donna Huanca: Espejo Quemada, June 26, 2021–January 2, 2022. Installation view. Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa. Photo by Makenzie Goodman.
Two images side by side: on the left a large cactus with a flower on top, on the right a large cloud of black smoke in a pastoral landscape
Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, detail of Bloom Boom from the Greetings from West Texas series, 2020. Collage. Courtesy the artists. Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa for the exhibition The Blessings of the Mystery.
A person standing next to a large-formate camera in a desert landscape.
Elle Pérez in residency during Ballroom Sessions—The Farther Place, 2021. Photo by Daisy Nam.
A figure in a silver suit flying a kite in the shape of a bird. The kite is directly in front of the sun.
Roberto Carlos Lange and Kristi Sword, Kite Symphony, 2020. Courtesy the artists. Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa.
Kenneth Tam, Silent Spikes, 2021. Installation view at the Queens Museum. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Jason Mandella

Ballroom Marfa is an internationally recognized non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Marfa, a rural town of less than 2,000 people in Far West Texas. Established in 2003 by Virginia Lebermann and Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa’s contemporary art and performance space is housed in a 1920s-era ballroom and is free and open to the public. With generous support from individuals and foundations, Ballroom commissions new site-specific and site-inspired projects and gives artists and musicians the opportunity to engage with the magnificent landscape of the Big Bend.

1986

Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.