Gina Dominique is a New York-based artist-scholar whose creative and academic work revolves around feminist aesthetics, autotheory, contemporary painting and installation. She has mounted thirteen solo exhibitions and participated in more than fifty group shows across the United States and England. In 2026 her work will be featured in two-person and group exhibitions in Italy. 

Among other accolades, Dominique has been recognized by the City University of New York (CUNY) with a Faculty Fellowship Award (2019-2020), by Delta College with the Barstow-Frevel Scholarly Achievement Award (2012), and by the Corcoran Gallery of Art with the Alma Thomas Painting Award (1983). She has attended artist residencies at London South Bank University (LSBU), London (2025), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Liverpool (2022, 2023, and 2024), 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2019), Tamarind Institute Collaborative Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque (1994), and Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts, Lewisburg (1978). 

Dominique, the Chair of CUNY Lehman College's Department of Art (2025- ), former Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities (2013-2016), and a tenured Professor of Art, earned her PhD––dissertation "AutoAbstraction"––from the Transart Institute for Creative Research practice-based Philosophy of Art program at LJMU (2026). Her MFA in Studio Art is from the University of New Mexico, and her BFA in Studio Art is from George Washington University's Corcoran School of Arts & Design. Dominique completed her first two years of undergraduate art studies at Carnegie-Mellon University. Born in Johnstown, PA, she is also known as Gina Dominique Hersey (née Shorto).