Taipei Fine Arts Museum

The Taipei Fine Arts Museum is a museum in Taipei, Taiwan. The museum first opened on December 24, 1983 at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command. It was the first purpose built museum in Taiwan to host modern and contemporary art exhibitions.

The architecture is a local adaption of the Japanese Metabolist Movement. From 1984 until 1990, its most prestigious biennial exhibition was the "Trends of Modern Art in the R.O.C.", which promoted Chinese modernity in art, inviting chiefly artists with a R.O.C. passport or equivalent ancestry.

This premier national competition- style exhibition was substituted in 1992 by the Taipei Biennial and the Taipei Prize. The Taipei Biennial introduced the idea of a curator-critic inviting senior and more accomplished artists, while the Taipei Prize continues to serve as a competition-style platform to discover young and unknown artists.