| 29th Annual Exhibition of Work by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen [May Show] | | April | 30 | 1947 | June | 08 | 1947 |
| The 60th Annual May Show | | April | 11 | 1979 | May | 13 | 1979 |
| Loie Fuller | | April | 10 | 1984 | June | 03 | 1984 |
| Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection | | August | 07 | 1990 | October | 28 | 1990 |
| Inaugural Exhibition of New Print Gallery: Prints from the Museum Collection | | August | 10 | 1938 | November | 13 | 1938 |
| Robert Motherwell's A la Pintura | | August | 07 | 1990 | October | 28 | 1990 |
| Dan Graham: Pavilion Compilation | | August | 13 | 2016 | December | 04 | 2016 |
| Sheron Rupp Photographs: In Montana with Beth | | August | 12 | 2000 | October | 18 | 2000 |
| Design and Decoration: Ornament Prints | | August | 07 | 1990 | October | 28 | 1990 |
| Dan Graham/Rocks | | August | 13 | 2016 | December | 04 | 2016 |
| Resistant Rhythms: The Art of the Japanese Stencil | | August | 20 | 1985 | October | 20 | 1985 |
| In Pursuit of Fashion: Decorative Textiles in 18th-Century France | | August | 01 | 1989 | March | 03 | 1991 |
| Object in Focus: Kneeling Male Figure, Cambodian (1978.8) and Kneeling Female FigureCambodian (Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art) | | August | 15 | 2000 | October | 15 | 2000 |
| Architectural Style in Miniature | | August | 01 | 1959 | November | 30 | 1959 |
| The Grosvenor School: British Linocuts Between the Wars | Link | August | 09 | 1988 | October | 02 | 1988 |
| Treasures from the National Museum of American Art | Link | August | 13 | 1986 | October | 05 | 1986 |
| Photographing the Coast of Maine: Henry G. Peabody | | August | 31 | 1990 | October | 28 | 1990 |
| Brassai: The Secret Paris of the 1930s | | August | 05 | 1989 | September | 17 | 1989 |
| 1994 Invitational: Artists of Northeast Ohio | Link | August | 31 | 1994 | October | 23 | 1994 |
| Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art | Link | August | 27 | 2000 | October | 15 | 2000 |
