| 21 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers | Link | September | 11 | 1979 | November | 11 | 1979 |
| A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from The Kelvin Smith Collection | Link | September | 14 | 1988 | November | 13 | 1988 |
| Ilya Kabakov Collaboration with Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland | | September | 01 | 2004 | January | 02 | 2005 |
| The Unicorn | Link | September | 07 | 2013 | November | 30 | 2013 |
| Robert Arneson: Portrait Sculptures | Link | September | 15 | 1987 | November | 01 | 1987 |
| Helen Levitt Photographs | | September | 22 | 1989 | November | 12 | 1989 |
| The Monet Triptych: Water Lilies | | September | 18 | 1979 | February | 17 | 1980 |
| CMA Staff Exhibition | | September | 19 | 1988 | September | 30 | 1988 |
| Portraits in Prints | | September | 10 | 1963 | February | 06 | 1964 |
| Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 [Michelson Morley Centennial Celebration] | Link | September | 16 | 1987 | November | 08 | 1987 |
| Landscape in Detail | | September | 10 | 1996 | November | 03 | 1996 |
| Golden Anniversary Acquisitions | Link | September | 10 | 1966 | October | 16 | 1966 |
| Scholar's Studio | | September | 26 | 1989 | December | 31 | 1989 |
| Southwest American Indian Art | | September | | 1979 | March | | 1980 |
| Eileen Cowin: Photographic Tableaus | | September | 30 | 1988 | November | 27 | 1988 |
| Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo | Link | September | 29 | 2013 | January | 05 | 2014 |
| American Indian Art [Educational Corridor] | | September | 05 | 1950 | October | 01 | 1950 |
| The Graphic Work of Delacroix | | September | 18 | 1963 | November | 03 | 1963 |
| ILLUMINATIONS: The Art of Light [Michelson Morley Centennial Celebration] | | September | 22 | 1987 | November | 29 | 1987 |
| Metamorphosis: Cindy Sherman Photographs | | September | 10 | 1996 | November | 03 | 1996 |
