Sinazo Chiya completed a degree in English Literature and Art History at the University currently known as Rhodes and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies at the same school. In 2016 Chiya graduated with an Honours Degree in Curatorship from the University of Cape Town, where she contributed to the Centre for Curating the Archive. She commenced as the social media and press liaison at Stevenson that year. She has written for the publications ArtThrob, Art Africa and Adjective. 9 More Weeks, a book of artist interviews by Chiya was published by Stevenson in 2018. She has since contributed to other publications under the gallery’s publishing arm.
Areas of interest and research include art criticism, critical theory, Structuralism and Post-structuralism, institutional critique and constructions of the American novel. She has recently taken part in a panel discussion titled, Where Is The Curatorial? Where do curatorial practices operate in South Africa, and what are the sites for such critical enquiries? An event that formed part of wider curatorial exchange between the Art Institute of Chicago and A4 Arts Foundation.