In 2010, the Dia Art Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture at Bard College presented a joint retrospective, the first in the United States, of works by Palermo. The show was financed mostly with a $250,000 grant from Gucci and also travelled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington.
In 2010, the Dia Art Foundation and Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture jointly organized a retrospective exhibition of Palermo's works, which was the first in the United States. The show received funding from Gucci, totaling $250,000, and subsequently traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington.