Gina Dominique is a New York-based artist-scholar whose creative and academic work revolves around feminist aesthetics, autotheory, contemporary abstract painting, and installation. She has mounted thirteen solo exhibitions and participated in more than fifty group shows across the United States and Europe. Among other accolades, Dominique has received a City University of New York (CUNY) Faculty Fellowship Award (2019-2020), a Delta College Barstow-Frevel Scholarly Achievement Award (2012), and a Corcoran Gallery of Art Alma Thomas Painting Award (1983). And she has attended several artist residencies including at London South Bank University (LSBU), London (2025), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool (2022, 2023, 2024), and 8th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2019).  

Dominique is the Chair of the CUNY Lehman College Department of Art (2025- ), where she is a tenured Professor of art, and the former Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities (2013-2016). She earned a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with Transart Institute for Creative Research (2026). Her MFA is from the University of New Mexico (1995). And Dominique's BFA is from George Washington University's Corcoran School of the Arts and Design (1983), where she attended after completing two years of the BFA program at Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1981). Born in Johnstown, PA, she is also known as Gina Dominique Hersey (née Shorto).