Gina Costa is a photographic artist, museum professional, and independent curator. She earned her graduate degrees in art history from the University of Chicago and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, The Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught at several universities and colleges. She has written several books and museum catalogues on 20th-century Mexican graphics, and Midcentury Modernist Art in Chicago, among other topics. Gina was a winner of the  2023, 2019, and 2018 Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards, a 2023 Camera Lucida Critical Mass Finalist, and the 2016 Latin American Photography Awards. Her work has also been featured in Lensculture, F-Stop Magazine, and Lenscratch. She has taught workshops about mobile photography in the United States and Europe, and is an internationally-know, published, award-winning photographer. 

Gina has exhibited at the International Center of Photography, The Mira Foundation, the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, Filter Space, Perspective Gallery, The Rebekka Jacob Gallery, Charleston, the Minneapolis Photography Center, The Vermont Center for Photography, The LightBox Gallery, Tethys Gallery, and MART, Rovereto, Italy. Her works are in public and private collections in the United States and Europe including The Fratelli Aliniari Archive in Florence Italy.