2016
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, guest speaker with accompanying "pop up" exhibition, Wichita, KS

2013
Atrium Gallery, "Stillness," St. Louis, MO

2012
Yaddo Studio Crawl, “Open Studio”, New York, NY

2007
Atrium Gallery, “Meditations,” St. Louis, MO

2006
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Time Traveler and Persephone’s Return,” New York, NY

2003
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Perennials,” New York, NY

2001
Nohra Haime Gallery, “A Summer Garden,” New York, NY

2000
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Pastels,” New York, NY

1999
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Hushed Moments,” New York, NY

1998    
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Then and Now,” New York, NY
David Klein Gallery, “Mary Joan Waid,” Birmingham, MI

1997    
Nohra Haime Gallery, “Portraits,” New York, NY
Atrium Gallery, “Still Lives and Figures,” St. Louis, MO

1996
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., “Mary Joan Waid,” New York, NY

1994    
The Gallery, State Theater Center for the Arts, “Mary Joan Waid,” Easton, PA
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., “Mary Joan Waid: Pastels and Paintings,” New York, NY

1993
Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, “Mary Joan Waid,”  Beilefeld, Germany

1990  
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., “Mary Joan Waid: Still Life, Self Portrait, Landscape Paintings and Pastels,” New York, NY

1989
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., “Mary Joan Waid,”  New York, NY

1988
Wichita Art Museum, “Mary Joan Waid: Recent Works,” Wichita, KS

1987
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., “Mary Joan Waid: New Works,” New York, NY

1985    
Delaware Art Museum, Downtown Gallery, “Mary Joan Waid,” Wilmington, DE
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., "Mary Joan Waid: Dream Series,"  New York, NY
Roger Ramsey Gallery, "Mary Joan Waid: Dream Series," Chicago, IL

1983    
Signet Arts, "Mary Joan Waid: oil paintings and pastels," St. Louis, MO
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY

1982
Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galeries, "Mary Joan Waid: Self Portraits," Zurich, Switzerland

1981    
Pima College, "Mary Joan Waid," Tucson, AZ
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., “Mary Joan Waid: New Work,” New York, NY

1979    
Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY
Meredith Long & Contemporary, Houston, TX

1978
Wichita Art Museum, "Mary Joan Waid: recent paintings and drawings," Wichita, KS

1977
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY

1975
Rush Rhees Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York, NY

1973
Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA

1970
Whitney Museum Art Resources Center, New York, NY

1966
University of Minnesota at Morris, MN

1962
Dorothy Morang Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1961    
Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM