1930s

11th annual Salon des Surindépendants of the Association Artistique Les Surindépendants, Parc Des Expositions, Porte De Versailles, Paris (October 8 - November 13, 1938)

50th annual Salon des Indépendants of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris (March 17 - April 10, 1939)

1940s

First Papers of Surrealism, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York (October 14 - November 7, 1942)

31 Women, Art of This Century, New York (January 5 - February 6, 1943)

Exhibition of Collage, Art of This Century, New York (April 16 - May 15, 1943)

Spring Salon for Young Artists, Art of This Century, New York (May 18 - June 26, 1943)

Hedda Sterne, Wakefield Gallery, New York (November 1 - 13, 1943)

Spring Salon for Young Artists, Art of This Century, New York (May 9 - June 3, 1944)

30 Pictures 30 Artists, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (October 30 - November 18, 1944)

Portraits of Today by Painters of Today, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (March 31 - April 1945)

Hedda Sterne, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (May 1945)

The Women, Art of This Century, New York (June 12 - July 7, 1945)

Paintings by John Graham, David Hill, Theodoros Stamos, Hedda Sterne, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (May 5 - 29, 1945)

Hedda Sterne, Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (January 28 - February 9, 1946)

Christmas Show, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (December 2 - December 30, 1946)

58th Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (November 6, 1947 - January 11, 1948)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (November 3 - November 22, 1947)

The 143rd Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January 25 - February 29, 1948)

La Collezione Guggenheim, XXIV Venice Biennale, Venice (May 29 - September 30, 1948)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (November 29 - December 18, 1948)

The 144th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January 23 - February 28, 1949)

The 21st Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (March 27 - May 8, 1949)

Painting in the United States, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (October 13 - December 11, 1949)

1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 16, 1949 - February 5, 1950)

1950s

The 145th Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January 22 - February 26, 1950)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (February 13 - March 4, 1950)

Young American Artists: Life Magazine's Fifty Most Promising Painters in the United States, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (March 24 - April 30, 1950)

Young Painters in U.S. and France, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (October 23 - November 11, 1950)

1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (November 10 - December 31, 1950)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (December 18, 1950 - January 6, 1951)

Contemporary Art in the United States, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (January 25 - March 4, 1951)

Contemporary Painting in the United States, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (June 2 - July 22, 1951)

Paintings by Hedda Sterne, Gump's Gallery, San Francisco (March 5 - April 5, 1952)

Painter's Choice, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (November 10 - December 14, 1952)

Hedda Sterne, Galleria dell' Obelisco, Rome (April 1953)

Hedda Sterne, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Sao Paulo (September 1952)

Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York (January 27 - February 20, 1954)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (October 18 - November 6, 1954)

61st American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (October 21 - December 5, 1954)

Janicki-Sterne-Glasco, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago (February 2 - 26, 1955)

50 Ans d'art aux etats-unis: Collections du Museum of Modern Art de New York, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris (April - May 1955)

Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York (April 26 - May 21, 1955)

Ten Years, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (December 19, 1955 - January 14, 1956)

Paintings by Hedda Sterne, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie (January 27 - February 27, 1956)

Hedda Sterne, Saidenberg Gallery, New York (February 6 - March 17, 1956)

American Artists Paint the City, 28th Venice Biennale, Venice (June 16 - October 21, 1956)

62nd Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (January 1957)

Hedda Sterne, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (February 18 - March 9, 1957)

1957 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (November 20, 1957 - January 12, 1958)

22 New York Painters, Landau Gallery, Los Angeles (August 4 - 23, 1958)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (October 13 - November 3, 1958)

Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 1958)

Paintings for Unlimited Space, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (December 15, 1958 - January 3, 1959)

The 26th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (January 17 - March 8, 1959)

1959 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 9, 1959 - January 31, 1960)

1960s

The 155th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January 1960)

64th American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (January 1961)

Hedda Sterne, Galleria dell' Obelisco, Rome (March 1961)

The VI Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo (May 10 - 30, 1961)

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (October 1961)

The Lambert Collection: Three Hundred Pictures Purchased in a Half Century, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (October 10 - November 8, 1961)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (November 6 - 25, 1961)

65th American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (January 1962)

Four American Painters, Molton Gallery, London (April 25 - May 19, 1962)

The 28th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pittsburgh (January 1963)

Two Modern Collectors: Susan Morse Hilles, Richard Brown Baker, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (May 23 - September 1, 1963)

Hedda Sterne, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (November 26 - December 14, 1963)

159th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (January 15 - March 1, 1964)

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (October 1964)

Portraits from the American Art World, New School Art Center, New York (February 2 - 27, 1965)

Women Artists of America, Newark Museum, Newark (April 2 - May 16, 1965)

Painting and Sculpture Today, Heron Museum of Art, Indianapolis (January 1 - 31, 1966)

Hedda Sterne, Portraits: 1941-1965, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (February 15 - March 5, 1966)

Four American Painters, Axiom Gallery, London (October - November 1967)

1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (December 13, 1967 - February 4, 1968)

Hedda Sterne: Metaphors and Metamorphoses; Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (January 23 - February 10, 1968)

Betty Parsons Private Collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York (March 13 - April 24, 1968)

Hedda Sterne: Drawings and Select Prints, Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton (June 2 - 11, 1968)

1970s

Hedda Sterne Shows Everyone, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (April 21 - May 9, 1970)

American Drawings of the Sixties: A Selection, New School Art Center, New York (November 1970)

Artists of the Region: Hedda Sterne and Ibram Lassaw, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton (July 1971)

Hedda Sterne, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (March 7 - 25, 1972)

Hedda Sterne Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey(February 11 - March 11, 1973)

Hedda Sterne: Recent Paintings, Rush Rhees Art Gallery, University of Rochester (November 26 - December 15, 1973)

Hedda Sterne, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (February 19 - March 9, 1974)

Hedda Sterne, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (October 14 - November 8, 1975)

Hedda Sterne - Portraits, Lee Ault & Company, New York (October 15 - November 8, 1975)

Hedda Sterne Retrospective, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair (April 24 - June 26, 1977)

From the Guild Hall Art Collection: Presented in Memory of Harold Rosenberg 1906-1978, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton (August 19 - September 17, 1978)

Paintings by Hedda Sterne, Walter Murch, Alexander Liberman, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell (June 30 - July 31, 1979)

Women artists of Eastern Long Island, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton (April 21 - May 13, 1979)

Art, Inc.: American Paintings from Corporate Collections, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery (March 7 - May 6, 1979)

1980s

Hedda Sterne: A Painting Life, CDS Gallery, New York (March 17 - April 12, 1982)

Poets and Artists, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton (July 3 - August 1, 1982)

Vintage Artists, Penn Plaza, New York (October 3, 1982 - January 13, 1983)

Hedda Sterne Reflections, CDS Gallery, New York (March 8 - 31, 1984)

Hedda Sterne: Forty Years, Queens Museum, New York (February 2 - April 14, 1985)

Eight Modern Masters, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo (April 20 - June 23, 1985)

Hedda Sterne, CDS Gallery, New York (May 7 - 30, 1987)

The Irascibles, CDS Gallery, New York (February 4 - 27, 1988)

1990s

Hedda Sterne, CDS Gallery, New York (January 6 - 27, 1990)

Hedda Sterne, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York (January 23 - February 27, 1993)

Hedda Sterne, CDS Gallery, New York (February 18 - March 31, 1995)

Hedda Sterne, Dessins (1939 - 1998), Bibliothèque Municipale, Ville de Caen (April 1 - 30, 1998)

Hedda Sterne: Over the Years; Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s through the 1990s, CDS Gallery, New York (February 6 - March 28, 1998)

2000s

Hedda Sterne: A Collection of Wordless Thoughts, CDS Gallery, New York (September 23 - November 30, 2000)

Abstrakter Expressionismus in Amerika: Lee Krasner, Hedda Sterne, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslaustern (April 1 - June 4, 2001)

The "Irascibles" and the New York School, Mestre, Centro Culturale Candiani, Venice (March 23 - June 30, 2002)

Hedda Sterne: Ghosts, CDS Gallery, New York (March 7 - April 30, 2004)

Uninterrupted Flux: Hedda Sterne; A Retrospective, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign (January 21 - March 26, 2006)

Drawing Friends: Hedda Sterne's Portraititis, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair (February 3 - April 20, 2008)

Sterne and Steinberg: Critics Within, The Menil Collection, Houston (May 25 - August 17, 2008)

Abstract Expressionist New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (October 3, 2010 – April 25, 2011)