| Travel Photography: Early Images of India | | March | 02 | 2002 | July | 17 | 2002 |
| Object in Focus: A Bridal Couple | | March | 12 | 2002 | May | 12 | 2002 |
| Inventing the Past: Jayne Hinds Bidaut Tintypes | | May | 11 | 2002 | July | 17 | 2002 |
| Project 244: Aernout Mik | Link | July | 13 | 2003 | November | 16 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Kundika | | July | 15 | 2003 | September | 14 | 2003 |
| Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection | Link | August | 17 | 2003 | November | 09 | 2003 |
| Peru 1983: Aaron Siskind Photographs | | September | 13 | 2003 | November | 19 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Karel Appel and the Legacy of COBRA | | September | 16 | 2003 | November | 23 | 2003 |
| Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculptures | Link | September | 15 | 2002 | January | 05 | 2003 |
| Challenging Structure: Frank Gehry's Peter B. Lewis Building | Link | October | 06 | 2002 | February | 24 | 2003 |
| Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily | Link | October | 27 | 2002 | January | 05 | 2003 |
| A City Seen: Photographs from the George Gund Foundation Collection | Link | November | 17 | 2002 | January | 26 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Group of Creche Figures: Adoration of the Magi (2002) | | November | 26 | 2002 | January | 05 | 2003 |
| Photographs by John Szarkowski | | December | 07 | 2002 | February | 12 | 2003 |
| Gifts from the CMA Friends of Photography | | December | 07 | 2002 | April | 23 | 2003 |
| Manuscripts in Gallery 216 | | December | 15 | 2002 | August | 03 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Male and Female Spirit Spouse Figures | | January | 07 | 2003 | March | 09 | 2003 |
| Interior Portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa Photographs | | February | 15 | 2003 | April | 23 | 2003 |
| The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum | Link | February | 23 | 2003 | May | 18 | 2003 |
| Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age | | February | 23 | 2003 | May | 18 | 2003 |
