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 City University of New York (CUNY) with a Lehman College 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, London (2025), Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), Liverpool (2022, 2023, and 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).

Dominique is the current CUNY Lehman College Department of Art's Department Chair (2025-2028), and a tenured Associate Professor of Art. At Lehman, she has also served as the School of Arts & Humanities Associate Dean (2013-2016). Her education includes her current PhD candidacy in the Transart Institute for Creative Research creative practice-based Philosophy of Art program at LJMU, with an expected graduation date of 2026. She holds 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. Dominique completed her first two years of undergraduate studies at Carnegie-Mellon University. Born in Johnstown, PA, she is also known as Gina Dominique Hersey (née Shorto).