[1] Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong opened the biennale on 1 September 2006 with a free public party held at the Padang in front of the City Hall Building.

[1] Some artists included Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Fujiko Nakaya, Ho Tzu Nyen, Jenny Holzer, Mariko Mori, Shigeru Ban, Yayoi Kusama, and Takashi Kuribayashi.

[4] A total of 137 artworks by 66 artists from 36 countries were exhibited during the Biennale, featuring names such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Dinh Q. Lê, E Chen, Fujiko Nakaya, Shigeru Ban, Shubigi Rao, and Tromarama.

[8] The 2008 edition had a budget of S$6 million, attracting a total of 505,200 visitors, with three exhibition venues: City Hall, Marina Bay, and South Beach Development.

[4] The third Singapore Biennale, themed "Open House", was held from 12 March to 15 May 2011 and led by Singaporean artistic director Matthew Ngui and curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith.

[9] The 2011 Biennale featured 60 artists from 30 countries, seeking to examine multiple perspectives and myriad creative approaches to questions of how we move across borders, see other points of view, and form connections with others.

[4] The fourth Singapore Biennale, titled If the World Changed, ran from 26 October 2013 to 16 February 2014, overseen by a programme advisory committee and project director, Tan Boon Hui.

[11] Exploring shared histories and current realities within and beyond the region, Singapore Biennale 2016 strove to present a constellation of artistic perspectives that provided unexpected ways of seeing the world and ourselves.

[11] Retaining a collaborative curatorial framework, the biennale was led by a curatorial team of Singapore Art Museum Curators: Joyce Toh, Tan Siuli, Louis Ho, Andrea Fam and John Tung, as well as four Associate Curators who are invited by the museum: Suman Gopinath (Bangalore, India); Nur Hanim Khairuddin (Ipoh, Malaysia), Michael Lee (Singapore), and Xiang Liping (Shanghai, China).

[11] The sixth Singapore Biennale, titled Every Step in the Right Direction, was held from 22 November 2019 to 22 March 2020, led by Philippines-based curator Patrick Flores as artistic director.

[12] Some participating artists included Arnont Nongyao (Thailand), Alfonso A. Ossorio (USA), Amanda Heng (Singapore), Boedi Widjaja (Indonesia/Singapore), Busui Ajaw (Thailand), Gary-Ross Pastrana (Philippines), Hu Yun (China / Serbia), Kray Chen (Singapore), Marie Voignier (France), Min Thein Sung (Myanmar), Okui Lala (Malaysia), Post-Museum (Singapore), Ray Albano (Philippines), Soyung Lee (South Korea), Vandy Rattana (Cambodia), Wu Tsang (USA) and Zai Tang (Singapore/UK) ; as well as the artist collective Phare, The Cambodian Circus (Cambodia), and the collaboration between Zakkubalan (USA), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japan) and .

[12] The seventh Singapore Biennale, taking place 16 October 2022 to 19 March 2023, is led by co-Artistic Directors Binna Choi, Nida Ghouse, June Yap, and Ala Younis.

[15][16] The award involves both a cash prize of JPY 3 million and an artwork commission to be exhibited at the Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Japan, or the opportunity to have their works collected by them.

[18] The homoerotic content of the work was considered to contravene the law on pornography by the museum, and contextually relevant gay pornographic magazines were removed from the installation without prior consultation with either the artist, biennale director Matthew Ngui or curators Russell Storer and Trevor Smith.