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 the United Kingdom. Among other accolades, her work has been recognized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art with the Alma Thomas Painting Award, by the City University of New York (CUNY) with a Lehman College Faculty Fellowship Award, and by Delta College with the Barstow-Frevel Scholarly Achievement Award.

Dominique has attended artist residencies at London South Bank University, London (2025), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool (2022-2024), 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2019), the Tamarind Institute Collaborative Lithography Workshop, Albuquerque (1994), and Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts, Lewisburg (1978).

She is the current Art Department Chair (2025-2028) and a tenured Associate Professor of Art at Lehman College, CUNY, where, from 2013-2016, she served as the Associate Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities. Dominique is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the creative practice-based Philosophy of Art program at Liverpool John Moores University (UK) in partnership with Transart Institute for Creative Research.

Her academic qualifications include an MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico, and a BFA in studio art from the Corcoran School of Arts & Design at George Washington University. She began her undergraduate studies at Carnegie-Mellon University. Born in Johnstown, PA, she is also known as Gina Dominique Hersey (née Shorto).