1936, Galleria del Milione, Milan, Italy (six oils) (actually a three-person exhibition: see S. R. Miller's 2011 and 2018 publications below).
1938, Salon des Surindependants, Paris, France (six oils)
1940, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (17 oils, solo show); Tone Price gallery, Los Angeles (13 oils, solo show); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (13 oils, part of group show)
1944, Julien Levy gallery, New York (18 oils, solo show)
1947, Julien Levy gallery, New York (11 oils, solo show)
1950, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (14 oils, solo show)
1952, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (14 oils, solo show)
1954, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (46 works, joint show with Yves Tanguy)
1956, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (12 oils, solo show)
1960, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (59 works, solo retrospective)
1961, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (small Surrealist sculptures, titled "Your Move")
1965, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut (memorial exhibit of 50 works, titled "A Tribute to Kay Sage")
1977, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (65 works, solo retrospective)
2011, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (25 works, joint show with Yves Tanguy)
2012, Featured in the exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.