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. In 2026 her work will be featured in a 2-person show, and included in a group show, both in Italy. Among other accolades, she 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). Dominique is the CUNY Lehman College Department of Art's Department Chair (2025- ), the former Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities (2013-2016), and a tenured Associate Professor of Art. 

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). All but dissertation, Dominique is a PhD candidate in the Transart Institute for Creative Research practice-based Philosophy of Art program at LJMU, with an expected graduation date of 2026. Her MFA-Art is from the University of New Mexico, and her BFA-Art is 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).