| 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 |
| Object in Focus: Male and Female Spirit Spouse Figures | | January | 07 | 2003 | March | 09 | 2003 |
| Interior Portraits: Zwelethu Mthethwa Photographs | | February | 15 | 2003 | April | 23 | 2003 |
| The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum | Link | February | 23 | 2003 | May | 18 | 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 |
| Draped in Splendor: Renaissance Textiles and the Church | | September | 07 | 2003 | September | 26 | 2004 |
| Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection | Link | October | 26 | 2003 | January | 11 | 2004 |
| Jasper Johns: Numbers | Link | October | 26 | 2003 | January | 11 | 2004 |
| Assumed Identities: Nikki S. Lee Photographs | | November | 22 | 2003 | January | 21 | 2004 |
| Signs of Life: Recent Photography Acquisitions | | November | 22 | 2003 | April | 07 | 2004 |
| Object in Focus: Countess Szechenyi and Her Prestigious Kashmir Shawl | | November | 25 | 2003 | January | 04 | 2004 |
| Voyage of Discovery: The Landscape Photographs of Ray K. Metzker | Link | December | 07 | 2003 | February | 29 | 2004 |
| Project 244: Trenton Doyle Hancock: Moments in Mound History | | December | 14 | 2003 | April | 04 | 2004 |
| Aftermath: Laura Letinsky Still-Life Photographs | | January | 24 | 2004 | April | 07 | 2004 |
| Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement | Link | February | 15 | 2004 | May | 16 | 2004 |
| Modern American Masters: Highlights from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Collection | | March | 28 | 2004 | July | 18 | 2004 |
