Gina Dominique is a New York based artist-academic. She has had 13 solo shows, and has participated in more than 50 group exhibitions across the US and in England. Dominique's accolades include the Corcoran Gallery of Art's Alma Thomas Painting Award, a City University of New York-Lehman College Fellowship Award, and a Delta College Barstow-Frevel Scholarly Achievement Award. She has attended residencies at Liverpool John Moores University (2022, 2023, 2024), 18th Street Arts Center (2019), Tamarind Institute Collaborative Lithography Workshop (1994), and Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts (1978).
Dominique is a tenured Associate Professor of Art at City University of New York's Lehman College, where from 2013-16, she served as the School of Arts & Humanities Associate Dean. She is a PhD candidate in Transart Institute for Creative Research's practice-led Philosophy of Art program at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool. She earned an MFA from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, a BFA from George Washington University's Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Washington, DC, and attended the first two-years of her BFA at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Born Gina Dominique Shorto, m. Gina Dominique Hersey, she is originally from Johnstown, PA.