Bienial Seni São Paulo didirikan pada 1951 dan diadakan setiap dua tahun sekali sejak itu. Acara tersebut merupakan bienial seni tertua kedua di dunia^[1] setelah Bienial Venesia (telah ada sejak 1895).

Bienial tersebut dibentuk oleh industrialis Italia-Brasil Ciccillo Matarazzo (1898–1977).

• 1989 - Guillermo Kuitca

• 1973 - Jan Senbergs
• 1975 - George Baldessin, Imants Tillers
• 1985 - Dick Watkins
• 1998 - Mutlu Çerkez
• 2002 - Adam Cullen

• 1967 - Elizabeth Edlinger-Torok (EDL)

• 1951 - Louis Van Lint
• 1953 - Louis Van Lint
• 1959 - Louis Van Lint

• 1965 - Roy Kiyooka
• 1987 - Roland Brener
• 1998 - Janet Cardiff
• 2004 - David Rokeby
• 2006 - FASTWÜRMS

• 1959 – Fernando Botero

• 1963 - Emil Schumacher
• 1975 - Blinky Palermo
• 2002 - Rupprecht Geiger
• 2004 - Thomas Demand

• 1985 - Felim Egan, Anne Carlisle, Mary Fitzgerald, Eilis O'Connell
• 1994 - Alice Maher, Philip Napier
• 1998 - Brian Maguire, Dennis McNulty
• 2004 - Stephen Loughman

• 1982 - Omar Galliani
• 2002 - Margherita Manzelli

• 1975 - Ay-O

• 1998 - Mirosław Bałka

• 1973 Miguel Berrocal

• 1998 - Markus Raetz

• 1953 - William Scott
• 1961 - William Scott
• 1969 – Anthony Caro, John Hoyland
• 1983 - Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Bill Woodrow
• 1989 - Richard Wilson
• 1991 - Bill Woodrow
• 1996 - Gary Hume
• 1998 - Michael Craig-Martin
• 2002 - Willie Doherty

• 1955 - Kenzo Okada
• 1967 - Edward Hopper, Wayne Thiebaud and Llyn Foulkes
• 1987 - Pat Steir, Stephen Antonakos, Michael Singer dan Robert Stackhouse
• 1989 - Martin Puryear
• 1991 - Ann Hamilton
• 1994 - John Otterbridge dan Betye Saar
• 1998 - Judith Pfaff
• 2002 - Kara Walker

• Bienal Brasileira de Artes Plásticas
• Brazilian art

• Laman utama situs web Bienal de São Paulo
• Situs web Diarsipkan 2007-07-15 di Wayback Machine. Bienal Brasileira de Artes Plásticas
• Artkrush.com - feature on São Paulo Biennial, November 2006

Templat:Tontonan pengunjung di São Paulo (kota)