| Stag at Sharkey's: George Bellows and the Art of Sports | | May | 14 | 2016 | September | 18 | 2016 |
| Masterworks on Loan, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Lute Player" by Orazio Gentilechi | Link | October | 17 | 2016 | January | 16 | 2017 |
| Masterworks on Loan, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, "Madonna at the Fountain" by Jan van Eyck | Link | October | 09 | 2016 | February | 26 | 2017 |
| Masterworks on Loan, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, "A Hunting Scene" by Piero di Cosimo | Link | November | 01 | 2016 | January | 31 | 2017 |
| The Cleveland Museum of Art Staff Art Show | | December | 16 | 2016 | January | 01 | 2017 |
| Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century | | October | 22 | 2016 | February | 05 | 2017 |
| Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain | Link | October | 09 | 2016 | February | 26 | 2017 |
| Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle | Link | December | 04 | 2016 | March | 12 | 2017 |
| Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art | | November | 19 | 2016 | March | 19 | 2017 |
| Downtown 81 Outtakes | Link | January | 04 | 2017 | April | 23 | 2017 |
| Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks | Link | January | 22 | 2017 | April | 23 | 2017 |
| African Master Carvers: Known and Famous | | March | 26 | 2017 | July | 16 | 2017 |
| Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed | | February | 26 | 2017 | July | 30 | 2017 |
| Alfredo Jaar | | April | 24 | 2017 | August | 06 | 2017 |
| Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s | Link | April | 30 | 2017 | August | 06 | 2017 |
| Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17 | | April | 09 | 2017 | August | 13 | 2017 |
| Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III | | May | 21 | 2017 | September | 03 | 2017 |
| Opulent Fashion in the Church | | September | 24 | 2017 | October | 01 | 2017 |
| Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens | Link | August | 05 | 2017 | November | 05 | 2017 |
| Liz Roberts and Henry Ross: Death Knell | | September | 09 | 2017 | December | 23 | 2017 |
