Gina Goico

Gina Goico is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and self-proclaimed necia. Through their work, Goico navigates their identity and the spaces where they exist in the Dominican Republic and the United States. Through their career they have come to create a diverse body of work that ranges from embroidery to installations, ink drawings and performance.

What drew to the M.A. in Arts Politics? As an artist whose praxis is political, this program resonated with what I desired to explore at the intersection of arts and politics- As I migrated to the United States and saw the possibility of entering this program, I was excited to make sure I came in and pushed my limits.

How did your experience in the program shape your work? This program allowed me to sit with theory and think about the ways in which academia can be challenged and allow for my work to grow in other ways. After one semester I realized I wanted to continue exploring theory on a deeper level and thanks to the support of faculty and their teachings, I was able to enter a PhD program in Performing and Media Arts at Cornell.

Additional awards: Goico was a Van Lier Fellow and artist in residence with Smack Mellon. They also participated in AIM fellowship at The Bronx Museum of the Arts; The Laundromat Project, Kelly Street Resident Artist. Goico received a 2021 HEAR US awards for their project "Portraits of Everyday: R*pe, silences and resistance in the Dominican Republic".