| Object in Focus: Mother and Child Figure from the Congo | | September | 17 | 2002 | November | 24 | 2002 |
| Girl Culture: Photographs by Lauren Greenfield | | September | 28 | 2002 | December | 04 | 2002 |
| Challenging Structure: Frank Gehry's Peter B. Lewis Building | Link | October | 06 | 2002 | February | 24 | 2003 |
| Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily | Link | October | 27 | 2002 | January | 05 | 2003 |
| A City Seen: Photographs from the George Gund Foundation Collection | Link | November | 17 | 2002 | January | 26 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Group of Creche Figures: Adoration of the Magi (2002) | | November | 26 | 2002 | January | 05 | 2003 |
| Photographs by John Szarkowski | | December | 07 | 2002 | February | 12 | 2003 |
| Gifts from the CMA Friends of Photography | | December | 07 | 2002 | April | 23 | 2003 |
| Manuscripts in Gallery 216 | | December | 15 | 2002 | August | 03 | 2003 |
| Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age | | February | 23 | 2003 | May | 18 | 2003 |
| Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the Middle Ages and Renaissance | Link | February | 23 | 2003 | May | 04 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Fifteenth-century Sienese Paintings: A Question of Forgery | | March | 11 | 2003 | May | 11 | 2003 |
| Project 244: MetaScape | Link | March | 16 | 2003 | June | 15 | 2003 |
| The Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection of American Photography | | April | 26 | 2003 | September | 10 | 2003 |
| Points of Light: Sato Tokihiro Photographs | | April | 26 | 2003 | July | 09 | 2003 |
| Object in Focus: Degas' Jockeys | | May | 13 | 2003 | July | 13 | 2003 |
| The History of Japanese Photography | Link | May | 25 | 2003 | July | 20 | 2003 |
| The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India | Link | July | 06 | 2003 | September | 14 | 2003 |
| Indian Temples: Masumi Hayashi Photographs | | July | 13 | 2003 | September | 10 | 2003 |
| Project 244: Aernout Mik | Link | July | 13 | 2003 | November | 16 | 2003 |
