| 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 |
| Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings | Link | April | 21 | 1987 | June | 21 | 1987 |
| Focus: Fiber (1986) | | April | 09 | 1986 | May | 25 | 1986 |
| Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt | Link | April | 03 | 2016 | July | 31 | 2016 |
| 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 |
| Recent Accessions in Decorative Arts (1923, 2) | | April | | 1923 | April | | 1923 |
| May Show Purchases: Gifts of the Print Club, 1939-1941 | | April | 01 | 1942 | May | 17 | 1942 |
| The 68th May Show | | April | 22 | 1987 | May | 31 | 1987 |
| The Fragrance of Ink: Chinese and Japanese Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. A. Dean Perry | | April | 19 | 1997 | August | 03 | 1997 |
| 16th Annual Circuit Exhibition by the Ohio Water Color Society | | April | 03 | 1941 | April | 30 | 1941 |
| Near Eastern Embroideries | | April | 03 | 1951 | | | |
| 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 |
| 25th Annual Exhibition of the Work of Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen [May Show] | | April | 27 | 1943 | June | 06 | 1943 |
| Reproductions of Holbein's Drawings | | April | | 1923 | April | | 1923 |
| Geometry in Art and Architecture | | April | 01 | 1942 | May | 03 | 1942 |
