Taipei Art Awards

Entries are open to any medium and any size. In the 2024 edition, for example, anyone of Republic of China nationality or holding a residence permit could enter, with work completed after 2022. Judging runs in three stages, and the finalists realise their proposals in the museum's galleries, so the finalists' exhibition is itself the last round of the award. The first prize was NT$550,000, with an invitation from the museum to hold a solo exhibition, and each merit prize NT$120,000. The 2026 award has ten finalists. Chen Chao-hua won first prize in 2023; his solo exhibition at the museum takes the award itself as its subject.

Read the medium line on each label and see how far apart the works in one award can be.

Once a work wins a prize, does what it means change?