Sinazo Chiya

Sinazo Chiya is a writer and director at Stevenson, based in Cape Town. She is among the 2019 writing fellows at the Institute of Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town, lecturing as part of the university’s Summer School program from 2023. Chiya has contributed chapters to Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City, forthcoming from Wits University Press and Your History With Me: The Films of Penny Siopis, published by Duke University Press in 2024. She is the editor of Mawande Ka Zenzile’s monograph, Uhambo luyazilawula (2020) and published 9 More Weeks, a book of artist interviews in 2018. Alongside talks and participation in curatorial projects in South Africa and Nigeria, Chiya has written for arts publications including Contemporary And, Art Africa, Artthrob, Adjective and the Center for Curating the Archive.