| The Year in Review for 1984 | | April | 03 | 1985 | May | 05 | 1985 |
| Masterworks of Ming and Qing Painting from the Forbidden City | Link | April | 16 | 1989 | May | 21 | 1989 |
| 17th | | April | 06 | 1943 | June | 01 | 1943 |
| Focus: Fiber (1988) | | April | 27 | 1988 | June | 12 | 1988 |
| Masterworks on Loan, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, "Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2)" by Marcel Duchamp | Link | April | 05 | 2016 | July | 03 | 2016 |
| Special Exhibition of Russian Peasant Embroidery and Weaving | | April | 01 | 1925 | June | 30 | 1925 |
| Master Prints | | April | 25 | 1969 | December | 02 | 1969 |
| Geometry in Art and Architecture | | April | 01 | 1942 | May | 03 | 1942 |
| Cleveland's Sesqui-Centennial May Show: 28th Annual Exhibition of Work by Artists andCraftsmen of Cleveland | | April | 13 | 1946 | June | 09 | 1946 |
| 16th Annual Circuit Exhibition by the Ohio Water Color Society | | April | 03 | 1941 | April | 30 | 1941 |
| Museum closed "because of plans to re-adapt the present building to new and changed uses." All subsequent exhibitions for 1957 were held at the Old Art School. | | April | 01 | 1957 | March | 05 | 1958 |
| The Fine Art of Graphic Design | Link | April | 09 | 1985 | May | 26 | 1985 |
| Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque | Link | April | 25 | 1989 | June | 25 | 1989 |
| A Selected Collection of Objects from the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art from Paris | | April | 02 | 1926 | April | 20 | 1926 |
| 25th Annual Exhibition of the Work of Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen [May Show] | | April | 27 | 1943 | June | 06 | 1943 |
| Work by Society of Scribes and Illuminators of Great Britain | | April | 09 | 1925 | April | 27 | 1925 |
| 51st May Show--Annual Exhibition of Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve | | April | 30 | 1969 | June | 16 | 1969 |
| 17th Annual Circuit Exhibition of Paintings by Members of the Ohio Water Color Society | | April | 03 | 1942 | May | 03 | 1942 |
| Drawings by Members | | April | 18 | 1946 | June | 15 | 1946 |
| Charles H. Woodbury Memorial Exhibition | | April | 09 | 1941 | May | 04 | 1941 |
