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 Europe. Among other accolades, she 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 many artist residencies, including at London South Bank University (LSBU), London (2025), 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 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 her PhD in Philosophy of Art from Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with Transart Institute for Creative Research (2026). She holds an MFA in studio art from the University of New Mexico (1995). Her BFA in studio art is from George Washington University's Corcoran School of Arts & 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).