Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
2015
"New Acquisitions", Bauhaus-Archiv Museum Für Gestaltung, Berlin, Germany.
2012
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest.
2000-2002
“Modernist Eye: The Art and Design of Nathan Lerner”, Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University; Illinois State Museum, Illinois Art Gallery; Asheville, North Carolina.
1997
“Nathan Lerner (1913-1997): A Lifetime of Photographic Inquiry”, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1996
“Nathan Lerner: Japanese Color”, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago.
1994
“Nathan Lerner Photographs”, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“Nathan Lerner Vintage Photographs”, Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago; AIPAD, New York, New York.
1993
“Nathan Lerner: Maxwell Street” The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Des Moines, Iowa.
“Nathan Lerner”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England.
1984-1987
“Nathan Lerner, 50 Years of Photographic Inquiry”, Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois, traveling show.
Photography Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan.
1982
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1980
Boston Contemporary Museum of Art.
1979
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1976
Harry Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC.
Pentax Gallery, Osaka, Japan.
“Nathan Lerner, Chicago: The New Bauhaus, Photographs 1935-1945”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY.
1975
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Pentax Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1974
Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany.
1973
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Hunt Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.
