Exhibitions
- Blinky Palermo - gesamte Grafik, Museum DKM, Duisburg (2013)
- Blinky Palermo Retrospektive, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (2011)
- Blinky Palermo Retrospektive, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2010)
- Blinky Palermo - Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik, Graphische Sammlung im ETH Zürich (1997)
- Blinky Palermo, Kunstraum Munich (1993)
- Murs, Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Werke 1963-1977, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1985)
- La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (1978)
- documenta 6, Kassel (1977)
- La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (1976)
- Düsseldorfer Szene, Kunstmuseum Luzern (1969)
- Drawings - Kunstverein, Munich (1970)
Public Collections
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
- Museum Folkwang, Essen
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
- Städel Museum, Frankfurt
- MMK Frankfurt
- Kunstpalais Erlangen
- Graphische Sammlung, Zürich
- Tate Modern, London
- Tate Britain, London
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
| 1943 | Born in Leipzig (original name Peter Heisterkamp) |
| 1962 | Studies at the Kunstakademie with Bruno Goller and Joseph Beuys |
| 1967-67 | Master student with Joseph Beuys |
| 1969 | Moves to Mönchengladbach |
| 1970 | Study trip to New York with Gerhard Richter |
| 1973-76 | Atelier in New York |
| 1976 | Moves back to Düsseldorf into the former atelier of Gerhard Richter |
| 1977 | Palermo deceased during a holiday trip on the Maldive island Kurumba |