| Catherine Wagner Photographs: Investigating Matter | | November | 01 | 1997 | January | 08 | 1998 |
| People Working: Photographs by Lee Friedlander | | November | 14 | 1997 | March | 01 | 1998 |
| Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection | | November | 16 | 1997 | March | 01 | 1998 |
| Object in Focus: Child's Sled | | December | 02 | 1997 | January | 05 | 1998 |
| Poetic Pasts: Digital Photography by Martina Lopez | | January | 17 | 1997 | March | 23 | 1997 |
| Sol LeWitt Prints 1970-1995 | Link | February | 02 | 1997 | March | 23 | 1997 |
| Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures | Link | February | 19 | 1997 | May | 15 | 1997 |
| Faberge in America | Link | March | 09 | 1997 | May | 11 | 1997 |
| Kenro Izu Photographs: Light Over Ancient Angkor | | April | 05 | 1997 | June | 05 | 1997 |
| Object in Focus: Seated Amit'a 1994.94 | | July | 28 | 1998 | September | 27 | 1998 |
| Buddhist Treasures from Nara | Link | August | 09 | 1998 | September | 27 | 1998 |
| Mark Klett Photographs of Japan: Shikata Ganai | | August | 15 | 1998 | October | 21 | 1998 |
| Jasper Johns: Process and Printmaking | Link | August | 16 | 1998 | November | 15 | 1998 |
| Object in Focus: \Under the Trees\ from the Cycle \The Public Gardens\ 1953.212 | | September | 29 | 1998 | November | 29 | 1998 |
| Backwaters: Landscape Photographs by Thomas Joshua Cooper | | October | 24 | 1998 | January | 06 | 1999 |
| Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art (1998) | Link | November | 08 | 1998 | January | 10 | 1999 |
| Mediterranean: Photographs by Mimmo Jodice | | November | 27 | 1998 | February | 21 | 1999 |
| Object in Focus: Elephant Mask 1985.1082 | | December | 01 | 1998 | January | 31 | 1999 |
| Object in Focus: Navajo Drypainting Replica 1990.72 | | January | 06 | 1998 | February | 09 | 1998 |
| Joel Sternfeld Photographs: On This Site | | January | 10 | 1998 | March | 18 | 1998 |
