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)

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)

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)

Hedda Sterne: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (February 16 - March 7, 1953)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)