| Northern Landscape Traditions: The 16th and 17th Centuries | | October | 10 | 1989 | December | 31 | 1989 |
| 200 Years of British Prints | | October | 03 | 1984 | February | 03 | 1985 |
| Hank Willis Thomas | Link | October | 20 | 2013 | March | 09 | 2014 |
| The Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Max Kalish and Alexander Warshawsky | | October | 09 | 1946 | November | 17 | 1946 |
| Style, Truth and the Portrait | Link | October | 02 | 1963 | November | 10 | 1963 |
| Lord [Frederic] Leighton's King David | | October | 21 | 1987 | November | 29 | 1987 |
| Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965) | Link | October | 16 | 2011 | January | 08 | 2012 |
| Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation | | October | 16 | 2018 | January | 13 | 2019 |
| Art: The International Language | | October | 02 | 1956 | November | 04 | 1956 |
| Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art [Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA] | Link | October | 30 | 2007 | January | 20 | 2008 |
| American Cities: An Artist's View | | October | 17 | 1989 | January | 07 | 1990 |
| The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Four Cleveland Artists: George G. Adomeit, Otto H. Bacher, Frederick C. Gottwald, and Walter A. Sinz | | October | 12 | 1984 | November | 02 | 1984 |
| Object in Focus: Poem 1992.138 | | October | 05 | 1999 | December | 05 | 1999 |
| Goya Aquatints | | October | 11 | 1946 | December | 01 | 1946 |
| Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925 | Link | October | 21 | 2018 | January | 21 | 2019 |
| Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland to the Museum | | October | 30 | 1956 | January | 06 | 1957 |
| Textile Arts Annual Exhibition [Focus: Fiber] | | October | 20 | 1976 | November | 07 | 1976 |
| Janna Dekker and Jan Van Leeuwen Photographs: Contemporary Dutch Still-Lifes | | October | 23 | 1999 | January | 12 | 2000 |
| Exhibition of the Month: Chinese Furniture | | October | 29 | 1946 | December | 30 | 1946 |
| In Her Image: Photographs by Rania Matar | Link | October | 27 | 2018 | January | 13 | 2019 |
